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Emotions - Anger
What makes you angry?
What do you do when you've become angry?
What do you do when you've become angry?
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In reality, it takes a lot to make me truly angry. Annoyed? Irritated? Those are more frequent. When I do get there, I try to find healthy ways to vent my anger - exercise, running, angry music, general movement, and so forth.
I have been angry enough to wish harm upon a person, but I've never actually harmed anyone as a result of my anger.
Rampant willful ignorance tends to make me angrier faster than almost any other stimulus - doubly so when it's coupled with someone taking pride in their ignorance, and when they spread it to others.
Generally, if your ideas harm only you, I don't give a rat's ass. If you would cause harm or inflict ignorance on others, my rage meter will increase.
2. Grumpyface.
They go on about how Kvothe is full of anger. Strong anger. More than one of them has sex with him.
/just sayin'
Indifference > Annoyance > Exasperation > Pity > Sadness
Seriously, though, that seems like an easily broken generalization. Is EVERY source of anger a social one or one that could conceivably inspire pity for the instigators (or yourself?)
I leave out my reaction to the stimulus: this simple progression is merely my emotion. But in general, there is a point of outrage beyond which I can act with nothing but a cold and calculated response.
In each instance, I removed myself from the situation as quickly as possible before I did something I would regret.
I've only gotten angry out of something serious ever happening, for example someone robbing me for my phone at knife point.
However there's been times where minor and trivial situations have escalated into less than trivial situations, because some people be dum-b, which perpetuates the situation. Highly aggravating, since I can be perceived as condescending if I simply explain my point, and at the same time the same person I’m making my point to is speaking condescendingly without explaining anything.
In summary, communicating with other people can be frustrating, when they only like to listen to themselves.
I very rarely get frustrated because of other people, but it's been happening more frequently lately, since I'm having to work with people, who frankly don't give a shit about working.
To old for this childish behaviour.
I don't think I have ever gone from calm to anger. It is always via some other emotion and that emotion taints the anger be something slightly different.
Example: I drop $40 cash at the store and realize it halfway from the store to work, I drive back and after I park someone backs into my car and leaves. Then I am late to work and get reprimanded by the boss. In that case I would be angry in the extremely frustrated at the situation kind of angry.
It sounds like Dazzle369 is of a similar mind.
Is this the case for other people as well?
I seem to not be able to get angry about important stuff, like when I'm lied to or falsely accused or when someone tries to cheat me or something like that, but I'll get kinda batty if, say, I let some food go bad without eating it.
I also get angry on other peoples behalf for the same thing. I stick up for younger people and outsiders relatively frequently. I really despise people being discounted for such things.
I've saved a lot of sanity on that one. Wear the world loosely, as they say.