Want to punch everything, rage

[Mashed Potatoes]

Glad you're able to vent here. I'm usually on the receiving end of the rage so all I can say is please...

I'm sorry you are on the receiving end of the rage however I am very open with my rage as it's happening if someone is in the room and verbalize my feelings. I went into a different room and hit a chair. I don't think the chair was offended :)

 

[Mashed Potatoes]

Hey I started hitting myself in the head ovrr and over when I got so angry I couldn't think. I was b...

I'm going to look into trying some alternate methods myself <3

 

[bring em all in]

@bring em all in Let me know how that works out : )

I'd read that one solution for over-worrying/ruminating is to set aside a "worry time" in which you allow yourself to worry and then move on with your day. I'm trying the same with anger by listening to/singing along to Lou Reed's "Warrior King" this morning. It really is an angry, vicious song (from a song cycle album of the stages of grief following a death-anger of course being one of them). "My footsteps so heavy that the world shakes/my rage instilling fear/yet cautious firm and fair and good a perfect warrior king"- "Power omnipresent undiminished uncontrolled/ with a massive violent fury at the center of my soul." And those are the "calmer" lines!

I followed up with Eve Decker's song "Energy," which includes the lines, "strange blessings every day/ when I turn towards what's happening instead of turning away/ and those blessings make me wonder why we ever lose our way." I did feel a bit calmer after listening/singing them. I guess it helps to balance recognizing the bad but reminding myself of the good.

 

[IceKween]

Me too. Used to slam my head into the wall over and over and over. Do major property damage.

 

[Mashed Potatoes]

Me too. Used to slam my head into the wall over and over and over. Do major property damage.

do you still do that? I used to hurt myself in rage I really try not to hurt anyone now and verbalize the whole time that i feel like doing it, then end up kicking a chair. I used to have a punching bag in my garage that worked well but since i moved, I have no space for anything and no garage. I miss that bag, good exercise too.

 

[Roslie22]

The rage feelings started about 6 months ago. I don't know if it's the PTSD, anxiety, depressio...

Hi there!
I actually recently joined this forum, and I can definitely relate to you with this. and I appreciate everyone else telling their story as well. I somehow forget often that anger is part of PTSD.

Even though i've improved over time, I still find myself getting worked up if a cascade of situations occur in a row.

to explain broadly, last week I went to get something cleaned which would take 3 days to get back to me, and it ended up being one week, with repeated errors and going back and forth, then had to get a refund, and go to another town to get someone else to fix the error, while there was flash flooding, my umbrella broke, and my shoes were soaked, and I need the item by next week or im in deep trouble. and all of this before work.

It took me a lot not to rage at the cleaning service. I think I really lost it inside when the first cleaning service tried to tell me that there is no issue, when it was obvious, according to the next cleaning service i visited. It's the purposeful deceit which angers me! not genuine accidents.

& about the self harm, I think the max i've done is slam my thigh or throw stuff around the house. damnit lol

 

[Mashed Potatoes]

Hi there!
I actually recently joined this forum, and I can definitely relate to you with this. and I a...

we all react different but are so much the same <3 welcome to the site!

 

[Roslie22]

we all react different but are so much the same <3 welcome to the site!

Thanks so much mashed potatoes!
P.s cute username ! Hehe

 

[Casey_03]

I get this too. All the time. For me, there is usually an underlying reason -- something that is stressing me out, even if I don't consciously realize it. i guess the only thing that helps is trying to pinpoint what it is that has me on edge -- then at least there's an explanation and that calms me down a bit. Not sure if it's the same for everybody, but it wouldn't hurt to try and think if there are things triggering you. I often get triggered without even realizing I am triggered, often by seemingly mundane things, and then end up in a rage for days.

 

[Roslie22]

I get this too. All the time. For me, there is usually an underlying reason -- something that is stres...

Took the words out of my mouth Casey!
Once I got extremely upset about something, to the point I was so angry and sad I could hardly work our get out of bed for a few days,
but then I had a flash back I completely forgot about, which revealed to me why I was reacting like I was!
Makes a lot of sense...

 

[Josie435]

I'm glad I'm not alone with the rage.. I just want to find out how to make it go away.

 

[Ronin]

Small things tying into the big things?

I relate, quite a bit.

I lost it in half a day rage over a can I couldn't open, the past year. Because that tied into being stuck in a country with so shit cans knives just don't do with it, & because it tied to why I couldn't do some angles, & what the hell were those months and years long situations that messed my nerves so badly. And then to everyone lost. Everyone not with me. :wtf::wtf::banghead::shifty::banghead:

Not an easy thing, but you can sort it. Make the thing back into Just About The Darn thing. There. Less rage. You can do it with that sucker making you pissed off so hard. It's not just about that sucker; and it doesn't mean you're failing.