Why do you get angry while playing games?

It seems silly when you think about it, getting angry because of a game. A mature and wise person would probably say that it´s silly to get mad over something that doesn´t matter. But when I´m angry all logic goes out of the door, it´s not an emotion I control! Sure I can keep the anger inside and I´ll turn myself into a time bomb, which means I´ll burst into rage at a time that isn´t quite appropriate. I´ve had that at school and also when going out, that got me into a lot of trouble and I know that bottling up anger isn´t the way to deal with it.


So before I talk about how you deal with that I want to get back to why you get angry. Well for me it´s mostly frustration and irritation, for example someone that doesn´t die when I shoot the living hell out of that guy and yet he kills me with one or two shots. I don´t know if that´s the game fucking me over or someone just using cheats, I do know that it pisses me off a lot! Maybe some people have patience for that or don´t really care about it, for me it´s injustice and something I can´t stand! It´s just in my nature to respond like that, to let it go would feel unnatural to me. Like it would be weird for a shy guy to walk up to everyone in a party and be very social, it´s going against your nature and that´s something you usually don´t do.


The best way to deal with anger is just letting it out, if you get frustrated or irritated in a game then just get mad and let it out. Of course it would be civilized to unplug your microphone, there is no need to make other people deaf with your screaming. Because half of the time the game is just stupid or you´re just not as good as you thought you are, still it´s easy to blame others for your demise. Competitive games usually bring the worst out of people like me, it´s why I avoid some type of competitive games. For example I don´t play fighting, racing and sport games. I sometimes make an exception but that´s mostly just me playing against bots instead of other people. So it´s not a bad idea to avoid certain type of games if you know that you respond quite negative to that, but of course that´s up to you how you want to deal with that.


If you have anger issues then it´s not the end of the world, but you might want to think before you do something. For example kicking your console around might be something you´ll regret, but shouting insults at the scream might make you feel a bit better. Some advice though, if you have neighbours you might want to pick a good time to do that because you don´t want to wake them up in the middle of the night!