Do you enjoy how anger feels?

No, although I resent that you tagged this question with “addiction.”

Anger feels like a complete loss of control, I can’t stand it.

Anger feels good for about a second, and then it’s oh shit, I just hurt someone. It’s not worth it.

Only on video games… On the McDonalds Nintendo game It took me 30 minutes to kill someone… I knocked him off around the area and eventfully off a chasm. Take that G rated game.

Experiencing anger means I care. I don’t enjoy the anger, but at least I know I care about something.

No, and I rarely experience it even when I probably should. I get frustrated more often than angry and sad more often than angry too.

@jonsblond Interesting. anger and passion aren’t separated by much. But it is good to care about something.

I go into psychotic joy when I run down people in Grand theft Auto… best to be in a police car or a van… and see how many stars you can get. Eventually all the police cars will box you in and blow up your car. Then they shoot at you. you have seconds to get another car or you die.

Sometimes real anger properly focused can do good things. I try and let it out when I exercise. When someone says I can’t do something I get angry then I do it (if it’s a positive thing). Anger is a natural outfall of having great interest in something. It’s not always a bad thing.

@talljasperman You just reminded me of the days when I was Toad and I would run everyone off a cliff. :D

Oh, hell yes. I inherited the trait from my father. I don’t know when it began, but I realized at one point in my life that I thrived on anger. Once a week or so, I would throw a rage, followed shortly by a satisfying (bowl) dump, followed by a period akin to the aftermath of orgasm…hazy contentedness followed by deep sleep.

Then one day15–20 years ago, my rage made my heart start making an outwardly audible ‘burrrrt’ noise. My sister was a former nurse’s aide, heard it (about an hour later) and took me to the hospital. Mitral valve prolapse, or leaky heart valve. Rage in the future could literally kill me. I still enjoy an occasional really mad, but it’s controlled, and I’ve only been fully invested in my anger (rage) 3–5 times since.

@ibstubro Do you have Marfan’s syndrome? The Doctors thought that I might have had that. I had something wrong with my Mitral valve…and told me that I might need a replacement in ten years. that was 20 years ago and I am fine.

@talljasperman I remember GTA3 flying the tank. I loved building mountains of tanks then blowing them up with the flamethrower.

@ARE_you_kidding_me Ohh. Please tell me that you have a YouTube video of that.

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I have not played GTA3 since it came out for PS2. You can do the tank cheat as much as you want and just pile them up. It was a good barricade from the cops and you could set them on a chain reaction explosion with the flamethrower. I could not find a youtube of that. To fly the tank use the “floating cars” cheat and just use the cannon to propel you.

@ARE_you_kidding_me Thanks.

I used to like being angry before a work out, but I’ve realized that it exhausts me before I can even reach the platform. I find that being calm is a better way to approach things.

Only when it motivates me to improve myself or improve a situation for the better. Usually I don’t get angry. But it is sometimes a necessary tool for motivation.

No. It just makes me more exhausted.

I like it better than apathy.

LIke &ibstubro I find it almost orgasmic to release anger. Probably because I rigidly control myself in general.

No, anger is one of the most painful and frustrating emotions to have. It makes one feel powerless and hurt.

I have anger tonight. Anger for people who don’t know what the f$ck they are supporting when they post their videos to facebook. I’m angrily sharing knowledge and probably upsetting some small town peeps while I’m at it.

oh well. I have no need to be popular.

I used to like it. The adrenaline helped me to focus. But the pay off was pretty steep. I don’t get angry much anymore, and life is much much better.

No, I find myself too worried that I’ll do or say something drastic in my anger. It’s really quite unsettling. But I am able to channel my anger into a certain focus to remedy the situation, and I enjoy the feeling I get when this pays off.

Not at all. Anger, to me, is a necessary evil. It is accompanied by a loss of control, and I have no longing to be out of control. Some people like to lose control, and even actively try to accomplish this with, for example, alcohol – but I don’t.

I suppose I may seek out the feeling of being annoyed, on the other hand.

On a related note: As a kid/teen, I would deliberately get my sister angry at me. That makes sense to me – if your sparring partner is losing control, that could make you feel more powerful. I suspect I still do that, but now, it happens unconsciously because I won’t let it happen otherwise.

@longgone For me, alcohol isn’t about the loss of control as such, it is about not caring that I’ve lost control. I don’t mean this in the sense of anger, but that in my day to day life I over-think everything, and act in a deliberate manner. It feels good to let go, and not worry about the things I no longer control. It’s not a complete loss of control for me either. My grip on reality is usually white-knuckled, but alcohol helps me relax to the point where maybe I would be were I not such a megalomaniac with regard to my behaviour. This helps me socialise and have a good time, because the troubles of work, relationships, and life in general become a problem that is postponed until I am in a fit state to deal with them.

Not to say that I’m an excessive drinker – I drink less than once a month, and then usually only a little. But it is something that I enjoy.

@FireMadeFlesh I hope I didn’t come across as demonizing alcohol. I think what you’re doing is perfectly fine – I simply don’t enjoy any loss of control at all.

@longgone I didn’t take it that way. I just wanted to highlight the difference between losing control for fun in a positive context and losing control out of a lack of mental fortitude in a negative context. Alcohol undoubtedly crosses both boundaries, but in my opinion self-control freaks like you and I can do with a little loosening of the grip every now and then. Or not, if you choose :).

@FireMadeFlesh Okay, glad to hear that. You’re right, in a way…and “self-control-freak” fits eerily well . .