Hey. I was told having issues controlling anger or emotions in general can be related to ADHD. I know I get WAY angrier than anyone should ever be sometimes.

Especially when injustice and ignorance come my way. I get furious beyond anything I’ve ever seen or heard of anyone else talk about. Maybe aside from depictions of killers or berserkers in fiction. It’s not cool.

Only a few times have I gotten in trouble for it luckily and I never actually done anything more than shout the most disgusting insults at someone.

Now I do feel bad afterwards if I got angry at someone I like. But often enough I feel they fucking deserved it. If someone is an ignorant asshole willingly ruining someone’s day, week or life they deserve some ruin thrown back at them. I know this might not be a good and healthy thing to think. But if someone provokes someone don’t they ask to be yelled at?

I know they do this to ‘win the argument’ because of that imo idiotic notion that who yells first is wrong. But honestly I rarely care to be right enough for shit to matter.

I’ve read a few books on anger management and some techniques help a bit. But the amount of anger described in the book seems so very mild to me in comparison to what I experience and how fast it builds up. One book told me to count to three. I am ready to launch nukes before I reach 1. That won’t work.

And I don’t get angry at something. I have pure rage and fury, hatred and contempt for existence itself at those moments. Angry really doesn’t cut it. It’s scorched earth, blown it all up and piss on the ruins kind of anger.

So anyone else experience this? Any tips to deal with this shit?

  • ryan
    7•1 year ago

    You may have rejection sensitive dysphoria.

    Rejection sensitive dysphoria (RSD) is extreme emotional sensitivity and pain triggered by the perception that a person has been rejected or criticized by important people in their life. It may also be triggered by a sense of falling short—failing to meet their own high standards or others’ expectations.

    When this emotional response is externalized, it looks like an impressive, instantaneous rage at the person or situation responsible for causing the pain.

    The first medication mentioned as a possible treatment, guanfacine, changed my life to such a degree I did not think was possible.

    I encourage you to read through the entire article and maybe discuss with your doctor on possible treatments if this sounds like what you experience.

    • RQGOPEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      While I do struggle with that a tiny bit still I have gotten so much better at dealing with my own expectations as well as criticism in general.

      But also this is rarely what makes me angry if at all anymore. It’s more injustice, inconsideration causing harm or ignorance and malintent.