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Irrational bouts of anger/rage?

post #1 of 26
5/4/09 at 10:09am
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I have recently and I am not sure why.

I don't use drugs (or steroids for that matter) and I've even quit drinking alcohol a few months ago.

I work out moderately three times a week.

Work/life frustrations have increased slightly but nothing to warrant the out of control bouts of rage I have been inflicting on those closest to me.

It feels like I've been injected with some rage-inducing chemical and although I am aware of what I am doing, I can't seem to stop. (It's just like what I thought someone with 'roid rage would feel like).

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post #2 of 26
5/4/09 at 10:30am
The causes could be physiological or psychological or both...not something one might reasonably expect to have diagnosed on an Internet forum. Have you given any thought to what events/scenarios incite the outbursts you describe? Regardless, it is not something you want to ignore, as with time and frequency of incidence, the outbursts are only going to become more extreme. Good luck!
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post #3 of 26
5/4/09 at 10:33am
i has them. with or without roids, have always had them. the simple explanation is i am out of my fucking mind.
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post #4 of 26
5/4/09 at 10:34am
Could be depression, could be hormonal, could just be stress getting to you. Do you think there could be a deeper psychological issue here underlying the outbursts?
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post #5 of 26
5/4/09 at 10:41am
You're emo.
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post #6 of 26
5/4/09 at 10:45am
^end thread
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post #7 of 26
5/4/09 at 11:41am
It happens to me occasionally. I think it's fairly normal and not that big a deal. Sometimes it feels good to be a dick for no reason. I justify it with this D.H. Lawrence quote I came across a long time ago:
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The real way of living is to answer to one’s wants. Not “I want to light up with my intelligence as many things as possible” but “For the living of my full flame—I want that liberty, I want that woman, I want that pound of peaches, I want to go to sleep, I want to go to the pub and have a good time, I want to look abeastly swell today, I want to kiss that girl, I want to insult that man.” Instead of that . . . we talk about some sort of ideas. I’m like Carlyle, who, they say, wrote 50 volumes on the value of silence.
Now from the way you worded your post, what you may be experiencing may be a bit more severe. If you are having episodes of out and out rage and really are directing them regularly towards the ones you love, then maybe you do have a problem and should seek help. If you can say without getting too personal, what exactly do you do when in these fits of rage?
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post #8 of 26
5/4/09 at 12:52pm
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Originally Posted by dexterhaven View Post
It happens to me occasionally. I think it's fairly normal and not that big a deal. Sometimes it feels good to be a dick for no reason. I justify it with this D.H. Lawrence quote I came across a long time ago:


Now from the way you worded your post, what you may be experiencing may be a bit more severe. If you are having episodes of out and out rage and really are directing them regularly towards the ones you love, then maybe you do have a problem and should seek help. If you can say without getting too personal, what exactly do you do when in these fits of rage?

Hmm, while Mr. Lawrence's ideas seem swell in theory, they essentially promote a complete dominance of action by the id and a dismissal of the superego and ego as a mediating force. This would most likely result in social ostracism and failure within society. The ego needs to walk the tightrope between morality/social expectation/superego and the basic instincts and desires of the human animal (id).

Perhaps what Lawrence meant to say was to not allow the superego to dominate the id, which was the most prevalent imbalance in the early-20th century Britain in which he lived.
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post #9 of 26
5/4/09 at 12:59pm
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Originally Posted by dexterhaven View Post
It happens to me occasionally. I think it's fairly normal and not that big a deal. Sometimes it feels good to be a dick for no reason. I justify it with this D.H. Lawrence quote I came across a long time ago:


Now from the way you worded your post, what you may be experiencing may be a bit more severe. If you are having episodes of out and out rage and really are directing them regularly towards the ones you love, then maybe you do have a problem and should seek help. If you can say without getting too personal, what exactly do you do when in these fits of rage?

Yelling and swearing over some minor mistake they might have made whether it's being late (again) or some other act of "incompetence". No physical violence. Even as I am spazzing-out, I know instinctively I am probably making matters worse not better -- but in the meantime, the anger feels right -- almost addictive. Bothers the fuck out of me afterward.
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post #10 of 26
5/4/09 at 2:14pm
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Yelling and swearing over some minor mistake they might have made whether it's being late (again) or some other act of "incompetence". No physical violence. Even as I am spazzing-out, I know instinctively I am probably making matters worse not better -- but in the meantime, the anger feels right -- almost addictive. Bothers the fuck out of me afterward.
Yep, emo. Some people cut their wrists lightly enough to show but not enough to kill. Bonus idiot emo points for horizontal cuts. Others throw a pity party. Neither of those methods are proven to work, but listening to Good Charlotte will give you a bit of respite from the symptoms.
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post #11 of 26
5/4/09 at 2:27pm
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Originally Posted by blackjack View Post
Yelling and swearing over some minor mistake they might have made whether it's being late (again) or some other act of "incompetence". No physical violence. Even as I am spazzing-out, I know instinctively I am probably making matters worse not better -- but in the meantime, the anger feels right -- almost addictive. Bothers the fuck out of me afterward.

If it is bothering you enough that you feel guilty about it, or you worry it might get worse and lead to you doing serious harm to your relationships with others you might want to talk to a pro.
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post #12 of 26
5/4/09 at 3:09pm
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Originally Posted by why View Post
Yep, emo. Some people cut their wrists lightly enough to show but not enough to kill. Bonus idiot emo points for horizontal cuts. Others throw a pity party. Neither of those methods are proven to work, but listening to Good Charlotte will give you a bit of respite from the symptoms.



You're a piece of work, but a piece of work with a sense of humor.
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post #13 of 26
5/4/09 at 10:56pm
Same thing happened to me when I stopped drinking too! So you know what I did? I started drinking again, and now... everything is beautiful!
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post #14 of 26
5/5/09 at 12:40am
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I've even quit drinking alcohol a few months ago.


And you seriously have no idea???
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post #15 of 26
5/5/09 at 6:48am
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And you seriously have no idea???

Naw. I thought about that but drinking shortens my fuse.

The only significant difference I thought of was the modest amount of dumbbells I've been lifting. Been losing fat and building muscle. Definitely feels better with more energy but that might also be why I'm also feeling more aggressive. Is there such thing as a naturally-occurring boost in testosterone?
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