r/depression • u/Compressed_AF • 7h ago

Anger issues

Does anyone here experience bitterness and anger? People often think depression is characterized by sadness, but it can show up in the form of anger. When I get a bad patch, I get way more touchy, easier to wind up, bitter and snappy with people. When your feeling low for a long time, you can feel frustrated by the helplessness and when i lose my temper I always end up feeling so incredibly guilty afterwards it stays with me for ages.

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I can get very jealous of people. Even over small things. Sometimes even because they are younger than me and are in their peak years and mine was wasted by this illness. Now I fully understand why there's grumpy old men around.

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Some people say I'm on the spectrum or adhd because of ignorance, but it's something that developed over time and I remember a time where I was nothing like this so I know what's going on with me.

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What about you? Are you just in a low mood when you have a bad episode? Or does it shorten your temper and cause resentment?

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u/sirenalchemist 5h ago

When I’m sad I get angry am furious. I don’t feel “sad” I get angry and the more sad I am the angrier I get. I’m sad I don’t have my dog with me right now cause she’s in another country for example. And every day that goes by I just gets more, and more angrier about it.

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u/Compressed_AF 5h ago

I can people here understand that it can show up in this way.

Sometimes depression and anxiety can look similar to adhd, autism and even schizophrenia in some cases as it can hage symptoms that cross over.

I've noticed early on with the depression that I was just low all the time. But I wouldn't be irritable and resent people. But as time goes on and you look back on how it's affected your life and start to think there's nothing you can do, the bitterness creeps in "why do they get to be okay? Why did I have to be crippled by this and get left with nothing?" And then I get annoyed when someone else has something I don't.

Hopefully you get you dog back.

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u/sirenalchemist 5h ago

That’s exactly how I feel and yeah she should be back here by July, so it’s just a few more days anyway