On May 09 2013 09:03 Canucklehead wrote: You might have a split personality. Go and see a psychiatrist to get help. Take some pills and chill. Why you haffta be mad...it's only a game?
The amount of armchair psychology in this thread makes my head hurt.
I've struggled with a less severe version of this, and it is quite difficult at times to deal with. I've recently gotten a lot better, and the only thing I can attribute it to is that now I find myself looking at my losses more analytically and thus less emotionally. The strange thing is that this just happened over time after playing more games.
QXC's advice is pretty insightful as well.
What do you expect? Professional psychology? It's TeamLiquid ffs.
Go to some kind of professional. I don't really see why you posted this thread if you were just going to disregard this rather important step. What's with the reticence on that front?
Sorry, I didn't know I wasn't allowed to express my displeasure for people making ridiculous assertions on a subject that they clearly know nothing about.
On May 09 2013 10:10 rauk wrote: look, think of it this way. i don't know what kind of job you do, but most require the use of your hands. what are you going to do if you injure your hands and can't work anymore? when you become a masters student, how are you going to take notes, type papers or work in the lab? what if you crash into someone's car while rage driving? you want your insurance to take a hit? what happens if you kill them by accident?
It's exactly these things that prompted me to make a post. However, when someone is in a fit of rage, logic doesn't play into the equation much.
right, so why are you taking that risk while you try different solutions that may or may not work out for you, when there's a clear solution with 100% success rate?
On May 09 2013 10:10 rauk wrote: look, think of it this way. i don't know what kind of job you do, but most require the use of your hands. what are you going to do if you injure your hands and can't work anymore? when you become a masters student, how are you going to take notes, type papers or work in the lab? what if you crash into someone's car while rage driving? you want your insurance to take a hit? what happens if you kill them by accident?
It's exactly these things that prompted me to make a post. However, when someone is in a fit of rage, logic doesn't play into the equation much.
right, so why are you taking that risk while you try different solutions that may or may not work out for you, when there's a clear solution with 100% success rate?
When I'm angry about a loss, I remind myself that it's just a video game. I'm not becoming a progamer and I'm not going to hit grand-master league, and I'm not playing in a tournament, so who cares about a loss? Then I picture that fat kid on youtube who destroyed his keyboard over rage about Maplestory and I laugh xD.
On May 09 2013 10:10 rauk wrote: look, think of it this way. i don't know what kind of job you do, but most require the use of your hands. what are you going to do if you injure your hands and can't work anymore? when you become a masters student, how are you going to take notes, type papers or work in the lab? what if you crash into someone's car while rage driving? you want your insurance to take a hit? what happens if you kill them by accident?
It's exactly these things that prompted me to make a post. However, when someone is in a fit of rage, logic doesn't play into the equation much.
right, so why are you taking that risk while you try different solutions that may or may not work out for you, when there's a clear solution with 100% success rate?
On May 09 2013 10:10 rauk wrote: look, think of it this way. i don't know what kind of job you do, but most require the use of your hands. what are you going to do if you injure your hands and can't work anymore? when you become a masters student, how are you going to take notes, type papers or work in the lab? what if you crash into someone's car while rage driving? you want your insurance to take a hit? what happens if you kill them by accident?
It's exactly these things that prompted me to make a post. However, when someone is in a fit of rage, logic doesn't play into the equation much.
right, so why are you taking that risk while you try different solutions that may or may not work out for you, when there's a clear solution with 100% success rate?
What solution has a 100% success rate?
quit playing
It solves it when it comes to starcraft, but what if it manifests in another game, or in another form? So far SC2 is the only game that has elicited that reaction, but I'd rather control the problem itself than just avoid the behavior that triggers it.
Thats a lot of rage lol. Try not playing SC2. It`s highly competitive and honestly there are a lot of dbags who'll try to unnerve you. A fre weeks or months off, like I did, will help cool some temper.
On May 09 2013 10:10 rauk wrote: look, think of it this way. i don't know what kind of job you do, but most require the use of your hands. what are you going to do if you injure your hands and can't work anymore? when you become a masters student, how are you going to take notes, type papers or work in the lab? what if you crash into someone's car while rage driving? you want your insurance to take a hit? what happens if you kill them by accident?
It's exactly these things that prompted me to make a post. However, when someone is in a fit of rage, logic doesn't play into the equation much.
right, so why are you taking that risk while you try different solutions that may or may not work out for you, when there's a clear solution with 100% success rate?
What solution has a 100% success rate?
I think he meant stopping playing completely.
You should look at this problem as a chance to learn something about yourself. It's pretty interesting that you don't rage in any other case but gaming. If you get this under control, this could be useful in the future at some point in life.
You could look for signs of your rage building up that you are missing now. If you notice the build up early enough, you wouldn't be surprised by overwhelming rage and could perhaps suppress it, or you could simply learn to stop your play session early enough.
You should definitely schedule a few minutes of pondering this problem each day, recalling and thinking about the feelings and thought process you had while gaming. Working at it daily is much better than an occasional long session of thinking. While you are sleeping, your brain rearranges itself, fusing the day's experiences with your long term memory. This gives the brain a new base to work from for the next day's work on the problem.
You don't actually seem to be getting anything out of playing SC2 so why bother. You just seem to be reluctant to quit because of all the time you've already sunk into it
Chill out, stick to watching Starcraft, play some ZooZoo instead. ZooZoo owns
On May 09 2013 10:10 rauk wrote: look, think of it this way. i don't know what kind of job you do, but most require the use of your hands. what are you going to do if you injure your hands and can't work anymore? when you become a masters student, how are you going to take notes, type papers or work in the lab? what if you crash into someone's car while rage driving? you want your insurance to take a hit? what happens if you kill them by accident?
It's exactly these things that prompted me to make a post. However, when someone is in a fit of rage, logic doesn't play into the equation much.
right, so why are you taking that risk while you try different solutions that may or may not work out for you, when there's a clear solution with 100% success rate?
What solution has a 100% success rate?
quit playing
It solves it when it comes to starcraft, but what if it manifests in another game, or in another form? So far SC2 is the only game that has elicited that reaction, but I'd rather control the problem itself than just avoid the behavior that triggers it.
Especially because I like Starcraft.
it should be obvious that arguing about hypotheticals isn't productive. if you want to solve the root of this problem for all future instances, get psychiatric help. if you want to solve the problem you have right now, quit.
On May 09 2013 11:14 wozzot wrote: You don't actually seem to be getting anything out of playing SC2 so why bother. You just seem to be reluctant to quit because of all the time you've already sunk into it
Chill out, stick to watching Starcraft, play some ZooZoo instead. ZooZoo owns
On May 09 2013 10:10 rauk wrote: look, think of it this way. i don't know what kind of job you do, but most require the use of your hands. what are you going to do if you injure your hands and can't work anymore? when you become a masters student, how are you going to take notes, type papers or work in the lab? what if you crash into someone's car while rage driving? you want your insurance to take a hit? what happens if you kill them by accident?
It's exactly these things that prompted me to make a post. However, when someone is in a fit of rage, logic doesn't play into the equation much.
right, so why are you taking that risk while you try different solutions that may or may not work out for you, when there's a clear solution with 100% success rate?
What solution has a 100% success rate?
I think he meant stopping playing completely.
You should look at this problem as a chance to learn something about yourself. It's pretty interesting that you don't rage in any other case but gaming. If you get this under control, this could be useful in the future at some point in life.
You could look for signs of your rage building up that you are missing now. If you notice the build up early enough, you wouldn't be surprised by overwhelming rage and could perhaps suppress it, or you could simply learn to stop your play session early enough.
You should definitely schedule a few minutes of pondering this problem each day, recalling and thinking about the feelings and thought process you had while gaming. Working at it daily is much better than an occasional long session of thinking. While you are sleeping, your brain rearranges itself, fusing the day's experiences with your long term memory. This gives the brain a new base to work from for the next day's work on the problem.
Perhaps you're just scapegoating. More than likely, your life isn't as wonderful as you decided to state it was, and you're in denial to the point where you really think your raging is somehow based entirely on the game itself.
Hey, everyone else got to play the therapist game. Just giving an alternate extreme!
speaking from own experience as long as u just punish your pc the problem will fade away on its own as time goes on u get a feeling that u should stop now and vent off before the anger bursts thats atleast my experience now that i can feel when i should stop before i go nuts . had/have some rage problems myself not only in starcraft but in computer games in general when thinks didn't go as i expected them should go
one examples a year ago: swtor datacron on tatoinee i fail the jump and run parcour for several hours and stubbornly continue till the rage bursts out in a smash my mouse on the table dilema which results in a hillarious result of mouse bouncing back from the table right into my monitor which was destroyed by impact :D
starcraft wise while laddering no rage problems at all but when training with my brothers it can get ugly it's not the loosing part which causes heavy rage it's more that i could slap myself for a silly mistake + stupid comment in teamspeak and the fist goes right into the keyboard
huge probs to cherry btw the g80 mechanical keyboard can take quite a beating before the inner components break :D
^^ The scapegoating was my initial thought too. I had a similar(ish) thing where the thing that was making me lose my cool had absolutely nothing to do with the game and took me a good while to realise it
On May 09 2013 11:27 MountainDewJunkie wrote: Perhaps you're just scapegoating. More than likely, your life isn't as wonderful as you decided to state it was, and you're in denial to the point where you really think your raging is somehow based entirely on the game itself.
Hey, everyone else got to play the therapist game. Just giving an alternate extreme!
I actually considered this, but I don't think it's the case. I'm pretty sure I'd rage in other instances if it were, and on top of that, I'm actually genuinely happy in other aspects of things. And I've been in a place where I wasn't, so I can tell the difference.
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