[Kamidogu]

I don't know how I feel anymore.
All I feel is anger, and I never know if I'm happy or sad about something. I spend all my time trying to work or study for university, but I feel blocked in my head. I can't tell if what I do is causing joy or sadness, but I know I feel angry, ad I don't know how to express it. I don't know what to do about feeling so angry, and nothing else. I REALLY do NOT want to be some sociopath!

[madisgram]

do u have an awareness of why you are angry?
a suggestion-since u attend school visit the guidance office to have an assessment for help. i have felt as you do and got help. i've never regretted it.

[Lilleth]

I have a feeling and loss and sadness most of the time. Even when I can see no reason for feeling like this I am like this. The times that I feel ok and able to cope underneath I am afraid of when the sadness and fear come back. I know this stems back from living in fear of my parents when I was a child.

[Fresquinn]

Kamidogu, you're not going to "be some sociopath". You obviously care. A sociopath wouldn't. So, don't freak out!

[FooZe]

Hi Kamidogu, welcome to Psych Central!

Originally Posted by Kamidogu

All I feel is anger, and I never know if I'm happy or sad about something.... I can't tell if what I do is causing joy or sadness, but I know I feel angry, ad I don't know how to express it.

If this isn't a good time to be running this by you, by all means ignore it. Many months ago we were discussing anger in another forum and in an entirely different context, and a member happened to share this:

Originally Posted by Elysium

One thing that we learn in DBT is that anger is considered a secondary emotion. It acts as a coping skill almost for other emotions such as fear, disgust, sorrow, to block a person from feeling these emotions.

So my anger I had towards it really wasn't anger at all, I learned. It was fear!! Fear of failure, fear of something new, and even the fear of getting better, because if I got better, then I wouldn't know who I was anymore. Who would I be without all these issues? It's a scary question for anybody.

If anything like that were going on for you, you might be right in the middle of it and have some difficulty seeing the forest for the trees. Still, I was wondering what kind of sense, if any, Elysium's comment makes to you.