Do you get angry

solitaire wrote:It's not just anger though, I have trouble with joy too. I don't know how to do joy.

Some music makes me feel like dancing and I do but there's no expression in my face. I feel like I should be smiling or something at the same time but I can't.

I'm totally the same with the joy thing but anger's a different story.

I don't generally express anger with people. If someone's completely out of order with me then I won't get actively angry with them, I'll sort of withdraw completely and feel disgust more than anything. Eg. if my boyfriend said something really bad during an argument I'd just shut down and get this look... it's really unhelpful cause that just makes the other person keep going and going until I'll explode with some incoherant stream of shouting.

It's inanimate objects that really set me off. I'd probably look completely insane if I reacted in company the way I do alone to, say, a page taking ages to load or my sleeve getting in the way, or dropping something. I can't explain how angry I get at silly things like this that wouldn't even annoy most people.

It's said that people with personality disorders are most likely to suffer from anger problems (though schizoids have trouble expressing it), so is interesting that most of you don't have the same problem. Do any of you get really angry over nothing like me?

Scarlet

isn't getting angry over nothing just a female thing? sry couldn't resist.

i get angry but cannot express it my brain just freezes up and i know im right and if i could just say all the things im my head in a convicing manner that person might see my side of things but my brain just thinks too fast for my mouth and i end up silent or a jibbering idiot.

but thats only really bad anger in extream cases. most of the time its more like a coldness inside me and i just want to hurt that person with some kind of power (throw them through a wall with my mind or summat like that). pictureing this or something like this usually works for expressing anger while allowing me to remain cool on the surface. Unless that person is really annoying then i actually have to hold myself back because i cannot express how much i want them to shut up with words (and society has rules against pummeling everyone who annoys you into the ground)

Ofc I get angry, but not as much as I used to in my teens.
Now as an adult, my rage has turned more or less into annoyance instead. I do occasionally get angry (when this annoyance gets too intense) and when I do Im very neautral to the consequences of the things I might say to others.

Yes, other people make me angry, but usually I don't really do anything about it. I don't know what to do or say. I just want them to leave. and usually I'm in a position where I can't just walk away.

Other times I don't get angry til later when it's too late to do anything about it anyway. I reflect on what happened, "Hey, that guy was being a total douche to me. ######6 bastard!" and imagine what I could have done or said differently.

I used to always say, "the only way you could really piss me off is if you killed my dog"

Then my dog died, and I yelled at someone for the first time two days later who insisted that I watch a program which had the goal of tearing down animal rights movements.

Right in the middle of yelling though, I went silent, and after a good sobbing(something I only do when I think of my dogs), I apologized and explained I was on edge due to the recent death.

Anyway. Other than that incident, I do not get angry. I do experience agitation/annoyance though....usually due to people who don't shut up, or people who invade my space or touch me.

Hatred is a powerful energy, it can become an effective driving and positive force. I hate most things and virtually everyone. Luckily, I have learned to harness my hatred.