Irritablue

OctPoWriMo 2024, Day 28

Irritable as a living thing. Known to snarl, 
on occasion, at companions. Groaning 
with all creation, fiending for itself. Ever-
contrite euglena - scourging its own back 
on the pilgrim way.

© Tolu Oloruntoba

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Notes

Some gems from the literature:

1. “Irritability is a mood of partial physiological agitation characterized by an increased sensitivity to sensory stimuli and a non-cognitively mediated lowered threshold for responding with anger and/or aggression to typically less vexing stimuli.”
   

   Michael J. Toohey, Raymond DiGiuseppe, Defining and measuring irritability: Construct clarification and differentiation, Clinical Psychology Review, Volume 53, 2017, Pages 93-108, ISSN 0272-7358, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2017.01.009.
   

2. “As many other psychiatric concepts, before it entered nosology, [discussion of irritability] was the domain of poets, philosophers, and theologians.”

   
   Pablo Vidal-Ribas, Melissa A. Brotman, Isabel Valdivieso, Ellen Leibenluft, Argyris Stringaris, The Status of Irritability in Psychiatry: A Conceptual and Quantitative Review, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Volume 55, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 556-570, ISSN 0890-8567, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2016.04.014.