I've started to completely loose my temper should I go for help?

[Anonymous]

I'm 19, recently a lot has went down in my life. Couldn't go to my dream university because of how expensive it was and had no backups so I'm on a gap year now. My dad was mainly the reason because he refused to help out for uni when he could. A few days ago I wanted to go to somewhere but no car was at home (dad took mine cos his was out getting fixed he was with his friends and refused to come back so I could go) and I completely lost it threw my phone at the wall and broke it, kept hyperventilating, pulling my hair just completely went psycho. And today I got into a fight with my mom because she told me I couldn't go to my friends today. The second I heard it I started having breathing problems and got so mad broke a few things my mom had to hold me down. I feel so bad for everything I said and made her cry a lot. My whole family is saying I've started to go crazy and I agree with them. Should I go to a psychiatrist? Or maybe pick up boxing to get rid of the anger?
by the way my dad has bipolar disorder and he's been a very negative impact in my life too.

[LuckyLittleLucy]

You may not have anger problems, if that's what you're thinking. It may be anxiety attacks.
Anxiety attacks can be displayed in many forms and sometimes anger is one of them. If you think it's just a phase and you're coping okay otherwise, I'd just chalk it up to temporary stress and not worry too much.
But if you're concerned and/or it's getting to you, speak to someone about it. It may be a friend or family member or you may want to speak to a doctor or a psychiatrist. There's no shame in it, and you can really only benefit! There's nothing wrong with you, there may just a be chemical imbalance or something which is giving you such a short temper. It's probably just temporary, but there may be breathing exercise and/or medication etc. that can help you out.
Good luck!

[Asker]

I have been under a lot of stress lately, loads of family problems and such but never anxiety attacks one happened before a month ago where I was having trouble breathing and was crying (assumed it was alcohol causing it because I had a lot of vodka but you might have pointed out the real problem) . You're probably right about it being an anxiety attack because I've never expressed anger like this before

[LuckyLittleLucy]

I have friends with anxiety and I've seen them do similar things to you. there's definitely no harm in talking to somebody about it, the worst they can say is that you're just angry and you'll get over it...

[RJGraveyTrain]

Get professional help. If you are having violent outbursts the last thing you need to learn is how to expertly beat the shit out of people so boxing is out of the question. PERIOD.

[Anonymous]

Please get professional help IMMEDIATELY!

[AzureGirl]

Yes you should go see someone, that level of anger isn't good especially over something small like that. It could be possible you also have bipolar disorder, it can be hereditary.