I am sooooooo angry!!!!!!!

Id rather get a cold shoulder than argue. Hopefully sleep will help matters. Rest well

I'm a head banger when I am fiercely enraged. I have never given myself a concussion, caused myself to bleed, or knocked myself out but I know it's always on the table. Not good when you have young children around. I would not recommend it. Like someone else suggested, bang your head on a pillow or try to exercise it off.

Instead of banging your head on the wall, could you just throw something at the wall, like a book or something?

Actually, I try to do things that won't make holes. Magazines? Hampers full of clothes? Boxes? I don't know. Anything around you that looks like it won't make too big of a hole if you throw it at the wall.

Sorry. That's probably bad advice.

But when I get fiercely angry that's all I can do.

Or could you go for a long drive and scream at the top of your lungs? I do that. It makes me feel better. Except that I usually lose my voice afterwards. And it doesn't cause any damage to personal property.

Hope you feel better.

Hi All,

Thank you! I got some sleep, mowed the yard, both of which helped. Still very angry, banging my head on soft things and only throwing things that do not make holes (whaled on the bathroom door with a towel). Am I manic?

Could be early hypo/manic. Watch your sleep if it goes all wonky then you need to take action. Keep trying to burn off the anger.

Maybe the world is just pissing you off and your anxiety and irritability is rearing its head. Happens to me pretty often lately.

Hope things settle back down soon

I am out of town a few days now, might be a good thing. Working on things other than banging my head, but it is a reflex action almost.

Thank you all y'all

WOrkhorse,

I get this way...and I am very rarely able to contain it. It's like anything in my way is the target of my rage. My wife takes a lot of abuse verbally from me when I am not in my right mind.

Do you find that the rage is not placed at something specific? It might have been triggered, but it's not really about the thing that triggered it? That's how it works for me. The only thing that I have been able to do combat it is physical, aggressively physical, activity.

Meditation helps a bit -- I mean the sitting crosslegged (if you can, I can't) or seated in a chair and focusing the mind to pay attention only to the breath. It's a LOT harder than you might think.

Hang in there....it will pass.

it is exactly like that! My spouse yells (frequent trigger) and my reaction is rage with wanting to bang my head, leave for a bit, or implode before I explode. I have been trying the breathing, takes practice for sure.