Yes, back in the day I was extremely angry and extremely anxious all at the same time. Also, extremely confused and in a lot of pain. I was scared by my state of mind, and of what I might do if I ever lost control. I hope you are in therapy, so that you can get help for your feelings and a bit of guidance. I found it's good to talk it all out, maybe write, maybe a bit of anger release in the right place. Another thing which helped me was using my imagination to really go to town with my anger, when alone and maybe lying on my bed. This was taught to me as a way to help relieve it. Good luck, all the best.

Yes, anger is a common reaction to the situation when you experience triggers for ptsd.
As nelliefay writes, journal, vent here, read through anxiety board posts for ideas that will help you sort through the feelings and learn how anxiety can mix up the symptoms.
You are not alone.
Being aware of your anger is important step towards healing.
Best wishes!

YES! I have major anger struggles along with intence anxiety. I think these are the most common symptoms! That and sever bouts of depression. I wish I could say more but I am to new to give advice about this. I am just barely lerning. I have done meditation and breathing excorsizes to try and help myself. They do seem to be helping.

In my experience w/ PTSD, yes. I struggle with anger issues. Especially when triggered by the memories of what caused the PTSD. I hate it, b/c of my inability to control my anger.

Yes, accepting my anger and like one of the replies said "going to town with it".............Finding ways of letting it express itself in fantasy or ways that won't hurt you or others....

Yes i had major anger isuues all my life...

I found this about anger on the link of The Emotional Life...I think is right on...

"there anything good about anger? Anger can be uncomfortable. Our cultures view of anger may contribute to our difficulties with this complicated emotion. We often regard anger as the ugly stepchild of emotions, making it less acceptable to express than sadness or anxiety. The result: we dont always learn how to handle our anger constructively. Yet, when managed with care and attention, anger can be a force for reflection and even the impetus for major breakthroughs in how we feel and live our lives."

What I've learned about my anger due to my PTSD is that I get angry most when I think about what happened and know that it has forever changed my life, my kids' lives, my marriage, my finances, etc....and I cant do anything about it. Thats where my anger comes from, the disappointment and resentment of myself for not seeing it coming or not being able to fix it. I'm a control freak too I guess and that doesnt help. The ways I have learned to deal with my anger (which I am just learning now and still struggling), is to step away from wherever I am at and take 5 mins to breathe, cry, or scream in a pillow. And to make sure none of your children are in the wake of your anger because it can manifest itself and kids are affected by it easily. I found that out the hard way. I'm still angry a lot...but I know theres help, and I know I can always come here. :) Chin up girl, you're not alone. :)

I just wanted to expand on something mideyebrow said. * Being aware of your anger is important step towards healing.* This is so important. Not only being aware of the anger, but taking it a step further by identify what you are angry about. Identifying emotions is something we have great difficulty doing but is crucial to our recovery. The anger is a great place to begin identifying emotions. After a while it becomes second nature and thats where we want to be! This will also help deal with the emotional roller coaster. Identifying where anger manifests lessens the feelings of being out of control.

Is this a trick question? The most mentally healthy human is angry all the time. It she or he was not so then she or he would be leaning towards being psychotic. How can a person look around this world and not be moved? And then always being dictated to by wacky bosses, gangster government neighborhood groups, city, state and federal dictators. Besides whats with the negative view of anger. Anger is a very healthy feeling. If one could not sense the anger feeling then one could not sense feeling. Your anger cannot move a fly off the wall no matter how red in the face you get. Now what you do with any feeling is what counts. Trust that you have a good heart that your God and you created and there is not a need to worry so much. The train is going to get to the next station with or without baggage you know.

What Evilnomore said, "Besides whats with the negative view of anger"....well, that's been at the heart of the big problems all my life. I was never allowed to show anger growing up. Nor was my Dad...just my mother was allowed to scream and carry on.

Gee, anger is a human emotion. Bottling it up is destructive because eventually it does come out and usually in a destructive way--to oneself and to others.

Last Thursday night, had a real major bout of anger--first in quite a while. Instinctively, I shadow-boxed for an hour. Gee, that felt good. (No, not a boxer...but that would be great training.)

Let it out. Have found that once I start letting it out, I get far less confused about what's causing all the pain and any other difficult emotion.

P.S. Before I started allowing anger to come out, I was numb my entire life, or, at best, I was like a cute little puppet for others.

I would never suggest that we suppress anger. The issue I am referring to is anger that begins to pour out of us as we begin to process PTSD. This anger is confusing and all consuming. Healthy anger is expressed rationally. Here is an example of healthy anger...; I was counting on you to finish the job today. You told me it would be completed and you have not honoured your word. I am so angry at your lack of competency. ..... This is healthy anger and there is nothing wrong with it. Here is an example of unhealthy anger;...... You are such a BEEP! You BEEP! You have ruined my life you BEEP BEEP BEEP. ....... This is anger out of control. The communication doesn't even explain what I am angry about. I am so angry that I am irrational. This type of anger is volatile and destructive and often surfaces when there is underlying feelings of anger that have not been identified. My advice was to identify our anger as it begins to surface. This is the type of anger that I had to deal with when the suppressed anger from my past began to surface. I felt like a crazy woman out of control. At times I would even black out during fits of anger. The issue could be as small someone leaving the toilet seat up, but my anger was much more then the toilet seat. It was very confusing for me because I had never been so volatile before and confusing because I truly did not understand where the anger was manifesting.

Thank you so much for this post. It's good to know I am not alone. The anger I have scares me. I have fits for a lack of a better word. I get so angry over little things.

I see a therapist once a week and a psychiatrist once a month. I can't see where they are helping me. I have cut myself off from the world. I don't have a friend. I don't want any friends.

It has been almost a year since I had a gun held to my head and made to get down on the floor spread eagle. I am 65 years old and have fibromalgia and believe me I forgot all about my pain when I hit the floor.

I feel like I am a walking time bomb. I come to this site every day and read what is written. This topic is what I needed today. Thank you everyone for posting. Peggy

completely It ended or at least became tolerable when I was put on risperidone a mood stabalizer and found ways like going to the gym to relieve the stress and anxiety. good luck

When you are angry, it means you are resentful and that you have not forgiven your abuser or abusers. You can get stuck in your anger and resentments, but the only one who will suffer is you. Your abuser or abusers are probably not bothered at all that you are suffering. A resentment is like me taking the poison and expecting my abusers to die.
Sometimes people are just toxic, and we need to learn how to forgive them for our sakes.
In the few weeks, my book on forgiveness will be on the www.volumesdirect.com website. It is called "Forgive me, forgive me not."
I have two other books on the same website, "Ignite the Do Within You" and "The Bitter Journey of Alzheimer's."

I understand what you are saying vertac, but recovering from PTSD is a proccess. In the beginning it's impossible to jump to the step you are revealing. In the beginning we are very confused because we don't really understand where the anger is coming from. Some of us don't even remember what the trauma was that we suffered. This all reveals it's self step by step. Also we need to remember there is a life time of anger that has not been releasesd. Releasing this anger is every bit as important as forgiveness. The forgiveness is something we work towards but not without the process.
Audra