Question of the Day

[ayoub]

What are you like when you're angry? (No Hulk jokes :P)

Comments

[evergladesqueen.livejournal.com]

I start to look like my icon and I am not very talkative unless I really feel the need to be. Then I hop onto LJ and scream.
*hugs*

[sorah.livejournal.com]

Animated. It's a cultural thing. I talk with my hands and speak fast.

I get over anger really, really, fast. As soon as I release it, I'm OK.

[cmerun12.livejournal.com]

Depends. Why am I angry, how long have I been angry, where am I at, and who is around me?
If it's work related stuff: I shut down and become very polite. I choose my words carefully, and think about what I'm going to say before it spews out of my mouth.

If it's on a personal level: I become very vocal about why I'm angry. The person I'm angry at will hear it when I'm ready to talk to them about it, otherwise all they get is politeness and civility.

If it's something like road rage: I just bitch at the other driver - even knowing they can't hear me.

[spacedlaw.livejournal.com]

Sick. I am not engineered for anger.

[leatherdykeuk.livejournal.com]

Ice-cold.

[bronxelf-ag001.livejournal.com]

Funny, this is the third time in two weeks this has come up. To save myself the typing, here. (http://community.livejournal.com/intj_/139685.html?thread=3636389#t3636389)

[delphaicdragon.livejournal.com]

Depends on how angry I am and at what/who. Sometimes I'll get so angry I get depressed and go sit in a corner and cry. Other times I'll blow up and start yelling and throwing things and/or hitting walls.

[the-ravyn.livejournal.com]

Depends on how angry I am.  If I'm slightly annoyed to pissed off, I get pretty vocal.  If I'm extremely pissed off to downright infuriated, I tend to shut down and if my ire is due to a person, I cut them off and out of my immediate circle.

[chiropteraclan.livejournal.com]

Kind of angry? I'm just irritable and short on patience.

Very angry? I get very still and quiet. When I speak, I enunciate everything very precisely. I speak very slowly, everything is very calculated. I withdraw and become distant and very very very very icy.

[chiropteraclan.livejournal.com]

I guess I should add that when I am kind of angry, it is very short lived. And it takes an awful lot for me to become very angry. That involves a betrayal of some sort. It's not often that anyone gets close enough to me that they could make me that angry.

[donnickcottage.livejournal.com]

You wouldn't want to see it. No one really does.

[bluesauce.livejournal.com]

Kind of scary, honestly. I can hold a grudge like a bastard and have little compunction against physical retaliation, if I feel it's warranted.

[dolorinterno.livejournal.com]

uh, i'm not built for anger. the first hit is anger, then frustration, then sadness and finally guilt. it doesnt last i just get left behind with this sick feeling at the pit of my stomach....

[mighty-rontor.livejournal.com]

98% of the time I explode violently, directing it towards an inanimate object, 99% of the time simply spouting out white-hot, extremely vitriolic invectives and only less than 1% of the time trying to do damage to it. Usually, during this 90% category, the burst is brief, I get it out of my system and then I go back to normal.

Only less than 2% of the time do I dwell on the object, seething with quiet anger, contemplating very cruel, long-term ways to sate my need for vengeance upon the trespassers, which only twice in my life have I acted upon.

[photodiva02.livejournal.com]

The icon says it all...

[smwright.livejournal.com]

It really depends on the person with whom I'm angry. Perhaps sullen and withdrawn, perhaps raging. Really, too many variables in there to say definitively. :)

[uawildcatgrl.livejournal.com]

sometimes quiet...sometimes snappish...if I drink (alcohol)...like a fire breathing dragon...(I go off!...not physically...just verbally)

[neanahe.livejournal.com]

Sometimes it takes me a good 24 hours to even realize that I am angry. I have slow burn kind of temper, and it takes a lot to get me riled up. Once I get there, though, I stay there. There are people in my life that I've been angry with since I was a teenager.

Once riled, I tend to rant a lot and say catty things about the object of my displeasure.

[katamphigorical.livejournal.com]

I'm sure if i just exploded when i'm angry, the following things wouldn't happen. But i suppress all my natural instincts when it comes to popping a vein. Let's see...

I get hot and cold, my vision blurs, i grind my teeth, my hands go through the motions of agitation, my skin flushes red and may even break out in hives, and sometimes i hyperventilate.

Sounds remarkably similar to a panic attack, but having also experienced those... Well, the differences are apparent to me. o_0

[sirenity.livejournal.com]

Basically? I start speaking lots of Spanish words. You can fill in the details with the info I've given. ;)

[fox-bard.livejournal.com]

Ask Donn. Or Nan. They've seen me in full blood-lust.

I've been told by several that when I'm in beserker rage, I'm scary. My face contorts, my eyes get wild and I want blood - and any harm I might take means nothing to me. The only thing that will stop me is the fear of going to jail, and it is a thread that could snap depending on the situation.

Frankly, I'm scared of myself at times like that.

[stalkings.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... well, it depends on the level of anger with me.

In the lesser degree, I am the Ice Queen. I give a mean cold shoulder. LOL I just walk around with a stern look on my face... and maybe slam a few things around. But I stay silent.

Now in the worst degree: I have a violent temper. And I do mean violent. As in extremely verbally abusive and if really pushed, physical violence. LOL *hides eyes* I once gave my hubby a right hook to the face when I got angry. I didn't MEAN to do it... I just honestly lost control. And I will say I must have a great man- because he didn't hit me back. But yeah- out of 10 years of marriage- that's the only time I've lashed out that way. I have thrown a few things at him though!

In retrospect, I know that my anger is one if not the WORST character flaw I have. I work on my anger on a daily basis. I am getting better at biting my tongue though. I hope it will continue to get better over time with lots of practice!

[childeofloki.livejournal.com]

I go through stages of anger.
First there are the cynical, insulting, biting comments. (Which happens when I am happy, too, but these are worse. Meant to be mean.)
Then there is the blunt statements of refusal.
Then comes the escalated voice and yelling.
Then icy silence.
Then violent, destructive rage. If the target is feminine in nature the violence comes out in arm waving and wall punching.
But that doesn't happen a lot.

[yndy.livejournal.com]

when I'm mad - I get all irrational and noisy
when I'm truly angry? I get quiet, rational, and very scary.

Ugh.

[psychicdreamer.livejournal.com]

When I get really angry? I cry. Then I take out my anger on inatimate objects like books (they get thrown across the room) or pencils (they get broken in half) and occasionally a dish (the pieces get swept in the garbage). I don't take out my anger on people, even if they deserve it. I have this thing with confrontation that I just don't do it. So either I keep it inside or take it out on something that can't fight back. And again, I cry. A lot.

[mousie.livejournal.com]

I get quiet.. and mad... and then i cry.. how freakin unhealthy is that lol

[empatia.livejournal.com]

I write, and when I am by myself I cry. Or I scream into a pillow until I start laughing...I'm a different duck for sure.

[eternalxwhisper.livejournal.com]

I look like I'm about to cry.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Really? My face just goes blank...