stress/anger management

I’ve always been one of those people who gets stressed at everything. When I say everything, I pretty much mean any small inconvenience will make me so stressed, I sometimes have to audibly scream. I’ll give some examples of what has made me stressed and how I’ve reacted to it. As a disclaimer, I have NEVER and would never physically hurt anyone when I’m angry but when I’m stressed, I get angry because I’m stressed and that means I start reacting in horrible ways: - road rage. I know this is a common one but this will literally put me in a bad mood for the rest of the drive home and even afterwards. I had an incident the other day and when it happened, I couldn’t stop literally shouting about it in my car and when I got home I was still shouting about it because it made me stressed. That was one incident where someone just pulled out on me at a junction. - if ever I have something coming up: a job interview, an exam when I was studying etc, I would get so stressed out. Thing is many people would read this and think “oh that’s normal.” No. It’s. Not. When I was at university, I was writing a dissertation and I got so stressed one day I started crying, screaming, I kept smacking my laptop and I was hyperventilating. There’s being stressed and there’s that. - minor inconveniences make me angry or stressed. For example, when I have to go pick my boyfriend up from work and it’s dark and there’s loads of traffic (I don’t like the route to his workplace because it’s windy and narrow, I can’t see even with glasses bc I have night blindness), if I have gone shopping and forgotten something, if someone says something that makes me question something I’ve done. This one’s very specific but for example, if I bought myself a pink top, someone looked at it and said “why would you get that colour, you should’ve got the orange one”, I’d then stress about it and not stop thinking about it all day, I’d rant about it, maybe even cry about it. Something as minor as someone not liking the top I bought. Something similar to this happened to me the other day and it made me cry and stress about my decision. - One thing about me that I hate to admit is that I do take my stress out on other people. If I’m extremely stressed, hyperventilating, crying etc, if someone tells me to calm down, I go insane at them. Even if they don’t do that and they genuinely just try and help me, I snap at them and then I get even more stressed because now I’ve just argued with someone. I don’t mean to but I just do. I feel really bad after because I know they’re just trying to help. And the thing is, it won’t even be a huge thing I’m stressing over. It’ll be something so minor and so small but I’m so horrible and just not a nice person to be around when I’m stressed. I was wondering if anyone knew if there’s any reason I could be this way? Should I see someone? Does this sound like any sort of mental disorder? Honestly sometimes I think I might have one. Because it is the most minor things that makes me like this and I am literally known as the “stress head” of my family. My boyfriend even jokes that I’ll have a stress related heart attack at the age of 26 or something. It is obviously affecting relationships because I’m not nice to people when I’m stressed, especially my boyfriend or my mom. Just want to know what I can do to chill the fuck out
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This is very much me as well. Get triggered super easily and with pregnancy forgetaboutit. I started going to therapy to see if that’ll help so i definitely recommend looking for help just someone to talk too! But im right there with you 😩

It could be mold poisoning, vitamin deficiencies, inherited genetic tendencies from historical trauma, neurodivergence, or a blend of the listed factors. It can feel like detective work to figure it out, but it’s well worth it! Document each episode and the known triggers to report to your doctor. They will likely send you to specialists to help you narrow things down. I also recommend therapy, especially IFS and EMDR for things like this. It may bring up something that you’ve forgotten, but your body hasn’t processed. ❤️🫶🏻

I am this person who gets stressed at everything also I’ve never hurt anyone or ever would but I get so annoyed and stressed at EVERYTHING!

@🍉 Rowena do you know what, I think it could be genetic now you mention it. My dad is exactly the same as me. I remember once he was shouting, swearing and getting extremely stressed because he took the wrong turn when driving one day and that is exactly like something I’d do. But also we do have neurodivergent people in our family such as Autism, OCD and ADHD, I just personally haven’t been diagnosed with any of these and I’ve heard adults are sometimes not taken as seriously when looking for a diagnosis/it takes even longer than it already does for children (in UK based and unless you go private, it can take 7+ years to get a diagnosis on the NHS. My nephew had his diagnosis within a couple of weeks when he went private but they paid like £2,000). Thinking of maybe seeking therapy and hopefully they can help me come up with stress and anger management tactics. Thank you for your comment!

@Kate this is me! I wish I wasn’t like this because I hate myself when I’m stressed. Plus I’m 24 and I swear I’m going wrinkly from constant frowning and stressing😂

@Alexandra I’m so glad I’m not the only one but it is annoying being that person isn’t it? I’d love to be a calm person but I get angry at ANYTHING! I will definitely seek therapy 😂 thank you!

You could try meditation, decluttering if applicable (less stuff to worry about means more headspace), self therapising by doing CBT to yourself - your stressed and worry thoughts write them down and 'see them through' eg write worst case scenario, challenge your thoughts w logic etc, mindfulness, when u start to get stressed count to 10, try and find 3 red things, 2 blue things etc.. perhaps more exercise to tire your body and brain out to physically stop overthinking and stressing.. lots of ideas really. Keep a journal and check in with yourself and try one strategy at a time and see how it goes xx

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