Condition Spotlight: Irritability

Have you considered that Irritability might be Anxiety in a different form?

It’s true.  Now, this might come as a surprise to some folks.  Often we disguise our Anxiety as Irritability. Without even realizing it.

Let's consider dudes. We’re really good at suppressing our Anxiety.  Shockingly good. I mean, what “strong male” would want to admit he had Fear and Anxiety.  Very few. It’s not considered “manly.” So we suppress that emotion. But we're not getting rid of it, merely suppressing it. So it pops back up as Irritability.

Irritability is a lot easier to swallow. It’s allowed in our society. Heck, it’s even esteemed. We need a bunch of angry men running around in order to fight our wars and build our corporate empire.

So how in the heck does Anxiety transform into Irritability?  It comes down to the brain. There’s this ancient part of the reptilian brain we all have.  The amygdala. It controls both fear, and anger. Scared and anxious of a wooly mammoth?  Your amygdala turns that into anger, and you are ready to fight!

In modern times, the same crap happens. Frustrated by work and home life?  Anxious about providing for your family? Does your wife blame you for not being able to soothe your crying infant? Boom, translate that Frustration, Fear and Anxiety into Irritability.  The cycle continues.

So why are you so anxious?  I don’t know what happened in your past to make you doubt yourself.  I don’t know who dimmed your shining light. I don’t know what made you trust yourself less.  But what I do know is that these things go deep.

The good news is that you can shift all of it.  I practice a technique for prescribing natural medicines that literally changes the firing in the brain.  It’s a matter of knowing the anatomy, and figuring out which connections are firing, and which aren’t.  Once that is done, the work is easy.

Sound interesting?  Let’s chat!