Without having a personal interview with
you, it is hard to pinpoint what the
problem might be.
But it reminds me very much of feelings of
total frustration and uncontrollable
anger, with a touch of self-harm to boot
it.
Let us start with the idea that at these
moments you are overproducing adrenaline
the fight/flight hormone. This is a
useful hormone if we are facing danger or
where quick action is required.
But if it is overproduced out of all
proportion to the situation at hand we
need to look at possible internal
biochemical mechanisms that might bring
about the adrenaline upsurge,
adrenaline serves to increase blood sugar
levels so as to supply biological energy
to organs in the body for swift action.
Normally we have a slow acting hormone
from the pancreas called glucagon, that
does this job. With adrenaline the blood
sugar levels can rise thousandfold in a
matter of seconds. It is a very fast
hormone. Why?
This hormone is triggered by the
hypothalamus in the brain. Whenever the
the brain senses an energy starvation,
derived for the sugars in the food, it
will send a hormonal message to the
adrenal gland to squirt adrenaline into
the system.
The brain depends on a steady sugar supply
as its only source of energy, and hence we
need to question why the brain is starved
of energy.
A common cause is insulin resistance,
which means that receptors for insulin
fail to push glucose across membranes of
cells, including brain cells.
Insulin resistance can cause hypoglycemic
symptoms one of which is anger out
bursts.
Thus one cause of uncontrollable anger
outburst is a hypoglycemic condition.
This can be treated by going on a
hypoglycemic diet.
When such a physical condition is combined
with low self-esteem we can have full
picture of a person that suffers from
uncontrollable anger outburst, that are
difficult to explain by rational means.
Thus the answer seems to be to go on a
hypoglycemic diet and to undertake a
psychotherapy course.
Please read
what is
hypoglycemia?
hypoglycemic
diet
the self-help
psychotherapy
course at our web site.
Jurriaan plesman, ba (psych) post grad dip
clin nutr
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