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During a consultation, your doctor will use various techniques to assess the symptom: Aggression. These will include a physical examination and possibly diagnostic tests. (Note: A physical exam is always done, diagnostic tests may or may not be performed depending on the suspected condition) Your doctor will ask several questions when assessing your condition. It is important to openly share any pertinent information to help your doctor make an accurate diagnosis.
It is also very important to bring an up-to-date list of all of your all medical conditions, medications including dosages, and names of numbers of any specialist you see.
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Why: Acute or chronic.
Why: e.g. low glucose levels in diabetes can cause aggression.
Why: suggesting post-traumatic stress disorder as cause.
Why: suggesting alcohol abuse as a possible cause.
Why: suggesting substance abuse as a possible cause.
Why: suggesting anti-social personality disorder or drug abuse as cause.
Why: Aggression can be a sign of some mood and thought disorders, such as depression or Antisocial Personality Disorder.
Why: In spite of how you may have been feeling lately, it is most important for you to communicate to the best of your ability exactly how you are feeling right now. This can give your health professional some insight into what you are experiencing.
Why: Substance dependence, abuse and withdrawal can result in aggression.
Why: Sometimes other things happening in your life may have a dramatic effect on your mood and make you more prone to aggression.
Why: It is important for your Health Professional to know if you have attempted self harm or suicide as it is a strong risk factor for you to further harm yourself, or even commit suicide.
Why: Your Health Professional needs to assess if you are a risk to those around you, and if so to what degree.
Why: As part of assessing your current physical and mental health your health professional needs to know about your past. This may aid them to know how to best treat you, and what management plans to make with you.
Why: suggesting Depression, post-natal depression.
Why: e.g. hallucinations, delusions, disordered thought.
Why: suggesting possible Alzheimer's.
The following list of conditions have 'Aggression' or similar listed as a symptom in our database. This computer-generated list may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.
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The following list of medical conditions have 'Aggression'
or similar listed as a medical complication in our database.
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