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Rage is defined as angry fury or violent anger or as a a violent desire or passion.[1] It may also be described as a state of anger so intense that one loses control of one's actions, sometimes regretting those actions later.

Triggers of Rage

A rage may be caused by anything as all. The actions of another person, failure of technology such as a computer or television, even insignificant things when there has been a previous build-up of stress or anger.

Effects

Rage, tacuinum sanitatis casanatensis (XIV century)

A rage can sometimes lead to a state of mind were the person thinks that he/she is capable of doing things that may normally seem to be physically impossible. Those in a state of rage usually experience extreme adrenaline rushes, which raise their physical strength and endurance levels. People in rage may also view events in a sort of slow motion, due to their brain processing information at an accelerated rate. A person in a state of rage may also lose much of his or her capacity for rational thought and reasoning, and is acting, usually violently, on his or her impulses.

A person in rage may also experience tunnel vision. They often focus only on the source of their anger. The large amounts of adrenaline and oxygen in the bloodstream may cause a person's extremities to shake. A person in a rage will hyperventilate with strong, quick breaths, to get more oxygen into his blood stream^{[citation needed]}.

A person in a rage may become temporarily incapable of coherent thought and may temporarily lose his self-consciousness^{[citation needed]}. Sometimes people black out, or forget what occurred during their rage.

One's senses become extremely acute, due to the high amounts of adrenaline in the body, and, on the opposite end, this also reduces one's sensation of pain.

See also

• list of rages

External links

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