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Easily irritated and get rage.. i don't understand my emotions anymore :(

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J_trustno1

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I have been noticing since last couple of weeks that I am easily irritated and have this constant rage. I am constantly on a look out of warnings or threats. Anything as little as asking me a question twice (i.e. by my mother) or someone's negative comment is enough to make me feel irritated and become angry. I am lost and out of touch with my emotions. I have no idea why I am behaving the way I am. Are my medicines making me insane?

P.S. I am on Venlafaxine (75mg in mornings) + LDN (for thyroid disease). I stopped mirtazapine almost 2 weeks ago due to horrifying dreams.

Lastly, it starts of as irritation then anger, then just tears :(.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks a lot.
 
Hi, thank you for sharing. I havent a clue about your medication sorry, BUT I don't think you are insane! I do know that I have been irritated easily and comments that really wind me up. Other questions just make me breakdown in tears. go back to the Dr and ask about the side affects and ask if it could be making you worse?
And also I would suggest to embrace your anger. Let the anger come out don't try to stop it. Then really question yourself, was it the comment or was it something else. Try to pinpoint if there are other emotions you are feeling like fear. Fear can come out as anger too.
 
You can become enraged and hulk-like without medicine, believe me.
It happened to me last winter, I went bezerk and I'm still scared whenever I get angry for fear it happens again.

But you already hit the problem spot-on when you said that you are out of touch with your emotion.
Anger is a defense mechanism to protect ourselves, so it also "protects" us against feeling anything, even though we really don't need that anymore.

So on the one side maybe you could think about releasing tension in a constructive way (sports, yoga for example), and on the other side about how you can get in touch with your real emotion again. For me normally when I release the tension, I can feel the emotion again.
 
You can become enraged and hulk-like without medicine

So on the one side maybe you could think about releasing tension in a constructive way (sports, yoga for example)

I did get that angry too. i would suggest Karate, or jujitsu as sports. And another way of getting rid of anger was for me to smash plates. I went and bought some cheap and I meant dirt cheap plates and just smashed them. Perhaps it could help you too?
 
@RussH : I have so much anger for my mother for keeping her brother (my abuser) at our house last year and whenever we get into arguments she blames me for provoking her narcissistic brother. Almost 2 weeks ago we had a huge argument because she was treating my abusers (i.e. her sister and her pedophile brother-in-law) son with great treatment over the phone while her sister has abused me as a child. That night when i told her that I don't like her treating their kids who also treat me bad like their parents well hurts me and I can't tolerate her loving them. She told me that "She cannot change them and I NEED to change myself". This lead to further argument where she told me that I am "jealous" of their success which is no where near true. There was so much yelling and screaming, which resulted me grabbing a knife and almost cutting my wrist. Then she was yelling at me that she'll take me to the psych ward and get me electric shocks. She was yelling at me and calling me jealous and insane which caused me more pain. I was getting worse and worse.

I have lost trust in her since last year when she kept her brother in our house because he is the same guy who forced child labor on me. He used to live in our house and make toxic comments on me (i.e. That i will become a nun or a nymph) and much much worse. Once (last year), he got into an argument with me when I made a comment on him because I wanted him to feel how i felt when he made such comments on me. He lashed on me, he swore at me and called me very filthy things. Instead of stopping him my mother took his side and called me a "bitch" and told me to go to my room. I have never had a say even when her relatives including their kids could say crap to me. Then she went to India last year to get her brother married the 3rd time (Yes! I know THIRD time) while I was suicidal and depressed. Whenever I called her, she would yell at me, tell me that I am unthankful, useless and I am insane and i need electric shocks!

Now, I can't seem to tolerate any of her behavior. Any time she says something I get irritated, I am losing respect and tolerance for her. Whenever I tell her that I want to move out of the house, she tells me that I am not "strong" enough to live own my own, because I can't cook for myself, i don't get up on time, blah blah while my brother has been going to overseas trips in the last 7 yrs while I have NOT left this city. When I told her that I am applying for jobs in Australia, she automatically said that she will come with me because I don't know how to look after myself. But somewhere in my head I feel that she wants to come with me because I am a female and she "doesnot" trust me own my own because that's what her culture taught her that girls don't leave home before marriage and if i leave earlier then it means I have faults. Every time i bring this issue of living on my own my concerns are discarded and my views are overwritten by her views. My only question that remains here is that "Being her daughter means a curse for life!"

I am sick of authority and always being controlled like a sheep. I have never had a say or freedom of speech. She never gets in arguments with my brother but whenever I have a say she will jump in and will argue with me to the point she literally starts yelling. She never repeats this kind of behavior with my brother! Although this hasn't happened in last 1.5 weeks but I'm sure this will happen again. I am avoiding the temptation of getting into any argument with her because I know that I will be the one suffering in the end and I am already dealing with a lot of job rejections.
 
@Radise and @Sarah542 : Thanks for your replies. I do exercise (5-6 times a week) which includes: strength training, yoga, swimming and cardio. I didn't go today and I can notice a huge change in my emotions.
 
awh, my heart goes out to you lovely! It really saddens me that your mother doesnt take your side. I dont agree with her. I think your very strong and could cope on your own! Perhaps it isn't the best advice but moving out i think would help you as it would decrease your stress levels. I just want to give you a hug :( Dont give up because you have had a lot of job rejections. Keep at it I'm sure you will find one :)
 
That sounds like an extremely difficult situation. From what I've heard, the economic situation in New Zealand is also making it very difficult for many people to find work. Is it possible for you to access government-funded counselling, or a social worker, something like that?
 
@J_trustno1 I think, given the circumstances, that your anger level is understandable. Perhaps you can schedule some time to do things you really enjoy, that will also help relieve the stress you are under.
I am sorry I don't have a better suggestion for you.
And your mom is wrong for not taking your side.
 
@RussH : Thanks. I really appreciate your help. It makes me cry and sad after all that anger. I just can't seem to trust my mother after last year and how she has treated me n told me that she'll send me to psych ward n force the doctors to give me "electric shocks". Those words are just stuck in my head and my eyes are teary while I write this. I can't trust that woman. She can do anything for her relatives. She even told me to not tell anyone when I told her being molested by her pedophile brother-in-law when i was 9. I keep fearing that my mother might even sell me into prostitution for money or for her relatives. I just don't trust her or respect her anyone. Anything she tells me or any words that come out of her mouth feel like poison to me. She used to beat me up when i was a kid and when i was 13, I still remember her holding a wooden stick and slapping me n threatening me that if i don't go to work she'll beat me up with that stick. I don't think i can tolerate her anymore. Everyday at home with her is suffocating me.
 
I think you should be working on a plan to get yourself to a safe environment. If it's possible to do that without getting a job first (I don't know what help might be available in NZ), then you may even find that being able to relax at night-time improves your employment prospects.

Be careful about shared housing, and don't make the mistake I made: I assumed that getting out would solve my problems. It made it possible to solve them, but it didn't solve them.
 
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