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?
I don’t think you’re helping yourself by excusing your anger so much, saying people deserve it or that it’s in response to injustice or stupidity and so on. If you feel like it’s an unreasonable amount of anger and it’s something you want to change, then you gotta own up to that, don’t half ass it by minimizing it if you really think it’s a problem. It doesn’t matter who you get mad at or why or whether you feel justified or not, the problem is that you presumably feel like the level of anger you feel is inappropriate and you believe it’s detrimental and potentially destructive. I’m guessing a major issue for you is that you don’t feel in control of yourself in those moments, so the last thing you wanna do is give yourself an excuse to forego self control by framing your rage as morally justified.
If it’s that severe, then it may be worth looking into seeking professional help or at least advice, maybe look for people who are experienced working with people who have adhd, and see if they have methods for addressing anger issues and impulse control. At the very least maybe look into anger in relation to adhd rather than just looking at anger management stuff. I don’t think anger management alone will cut it if your adhd is a major factor.