I don't think I'm an angry person (tho my therp may disagree) but I have
a real problem with anger, particularly with quick, intense anger. It's
often about stupid things like the subway, but it can be so intense I
can't control it and start kicking the ground or swearing out loud or
pushing people deliberately. Then I feel really ashamed.
Mostly I get angry when I'm frustrated or when someone doesn't
understand me or what I'm trying to say. Or when someone is deliberately
hurting someone else. And when I got angry with my ex, I would say very
mean personal things to him, which I now regret.
Rage, to me, is uncontrollable anger.
anon.
I don't think I'm basically an 'angry' person. But I can be filled with
rage at times. Anger is something that just smolders inside and I can
pretty much control it. Rage comes out of nowhere and I explode without
(seemingly) much control. I feel I probably *could* maybe stop it if I
wanted to...but it feels good to let it go...to maybe show the person what
they have done to have made me feel this bad and out of control.
Diane
well when i was younger(ages 4/5-16 or so) i would literally go into these
psychotic rages, throwin stuff and screaming until my voice would quit on
me....and all it took was for my mom to say the smallest thing, and i dont
know why, but it would just send me flyin....
I wouldnt consider myself an angry person anymore, and outside of my family
fights, ive never laid a hand on anyone, except for myself.....i was a very
angry child though, very misunderstood i guess......
rage was the fits i would throw as a result of letting my anger build???
Troy
I never thought I was, but then I never knew what anger was, either.
Apparently I am indeed an angry person. It gets all confused though, and
sometimes I can't tell when I'm angry with myself or angry with others, or
why, or whether or not it is *excusable.*
As for the difference between anger and rage, I had to ask my
therapist today. She said that rage is anger that builds and
builds and then can explode.
V
I am a very angry person. I feel like I never get my needs met. This
makes me very angry. I push people away when I really need them and feel
abandoned by them and like it's all their fault and then when they do
distance from me I get hurt and since I don't want to feel hurt I act
angry and as if I don't care that they are going away. Then I need more
again, and I get left alone. I am no good at being alone. Being alone
makes me angry too. So then I meet a new person and do the whole thing
over again. This makes me angry too. I think that if I wasn't so afraid
to feel I wouldn't be so angry.
The difference between anger and rage to me is that when I am angry
it is on the inside of me and when I rage I take it out on people or
things around me. So, I think anger is inside and rage is what comes
out when the anger explodes.
anon.
Am I an angry person? YES!! I am angry cause nobody loves me and
cause I don't love me either. I am angry when people like me and pay
attention to me, cause then they stop. I am also angry when people don't
pay attention to me. I feel helpless and hopeless a lot of the time
and this makes me angry too. I do not want to need or to be weak in
anyway, so if I feel something, well, I just get angry.
I don't know what the difference is between anger and rage I just
know that I am often angry and I do have rages.
anon.
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