Symptom: Aggression

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• Other symptoms that may need to be considered or may be imprecisely called aggression include:
  • Irritability
  • Depressive symptoms - not often but sometimes lashing out due to depressive feelings may seem like aggression.
• Substance causes are a common cause of aggression:
  • Drug intoxication
  • Alcohol intoxication (see Alcohol use)
  • Addiction
  • Alcohol abuse
  • Illicit drugs
  • Amphetamine intoxication
• Psychological disorders
  • Borderline Personality Disorder
  • Anti-Social Personality Disorder
  • Oppositional defiant disorder
  • Conduct disorders
  • Intermittent Explosive Disorder
  • Mania
  • Post-traumatic stress disorder
  • Schizophrenia - often aggression against self or sometimes others.
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
• Depressive disorders - a possible cause of aggression or lost tempers, but overall not a particularly common cause of extreme aggressive symptoms.
  • Depression - although depression is not a common cause of aggression symptoms.
  • Dysthymia
  • Postpartum depression
  • Postnatal depression - can cause aggression and sometimes against the child even to the extreme of infanticide
• Some possible causes of aggressive infant behavior include:
  • Normal toddler behavior
  • Autism
  • Reye's Syndrome
  • Soto's Syndrome
  • Classic childhood ALD
• Possible causes of sudden unusual aggression or combativeness:
  • Hypoglycemia
  • Hypoglycemic attack
• Alzheimer's Disease
• Menopause

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