Depression is More Than Just Sadness: A Case of Excessive Anger and Its Management in Depression

People with depressive illness often have symptoms of overt or suppressed anger. Those with anger traits face exaggerated problem during symptomatic period of depression. Pharmacological management helps in control of depressive and anxiety symptoms, but rarely address anger symptoms. Non-pharmacolo...

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Main Authors:	Sahu, Anamika, Gupta, Preeti, Chatterjee, Biswadip
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3959025/

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spelling	pubmed-39590252014-04-03 Depression is More Than Just Sadness: A Case of Excessive Anger and Its Management in Depression Sahu, Anamika Gupta, Preeti Chatterjee, Biswadip Case Report People with depressive illness often have symptoms of overt or suppressed anger. Those with anger traits face exaggerated problem during symptomatic period of depression. Pharmacological management helps in control of depressive and anxiety symptoms, but rarely address anger symptoms. Non-pharmacological management like cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is effective in depression as well as in anger management, but is not used frequently in anger associated or exacerbated by depression. We present the case of a 27-year-old male suffering from moderate depressive episode with associated anger outburst. He underwent CBT, which resulted in a significant decrease in anger symptoms as well as in severity of depression. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC3959025/ /pubmed/24701016 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7176.127259 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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author	Sahu, Anamika Gupta, Preeti Chatterjee, Biswadip
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title	Depression is More Than Just Sadness: A Case of Excessive Anger and Its Management in Depression
title_short	Depression is More Than Just Sadness: A Case of Excessive Anger and Its Management in Depression
title_full	Depression is More Than Just Sadness: A Case of Excessive Anger and Its Management in Depression
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title_full_unstemmed	Depression is More Than Just Sadness: A Case of Excessive Anger and Its Management in Depression
title_sort	depression is more than just sadness: a case of excessive anger and its management in depression
description	People with depressive illness often have symptoms of overt or suppressed anger. Those with anger traits face exaggerated problem during symptomatic period of depression. Pharmacological management helps in control of depressive and anxiety symptoms, but rarely address anger symptoms. Non-pharmacological management like cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is effective in depression as well as in anger management, but is not used frequently in anger associated or exacerbated by depression. We present the case of a 27-year-old male suffering from moderate depressive episode with associated anger outburst. He underwent CBT, which resulted in a significant decrease in anger symptoms as well as in severity of depression.
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Depression is More Than Just Sadness: A Case of Excessive Anger and Its Management in Depression

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