I've noticed that sometimes I will get upset with someone without any reason to be upset. I was wondering if anyone else had felt this way, and how they handle it.
Yes I have, and it is a side product of depression I'm afraid. The main thing is too understand that your anger is not directly aimed at that person and is only a bi product of how you're feeling, I'm sure if you apologise to the person afterwards they will understand this.
Stay strong, and keep your head up
I try my best to disengage. Walk away until I feel the wave subsides and then think about whatever it was that made me angry and then to approach it logically. I would hate to hurt someone, unlike my days of youth, I can no longer afford to be physical. I have no feet and a very badly injured spine so I cannot afford to be physical anymore. So I guess that this makes it easier for me, but walk away. That is my best advice. However, you do still need to vent. Find a way to do this or you will do it inappropriately which is my current problem, I vent in my sleep in the form of seizures and this i still need to work out.
I always get angry during a depressive episode and think it's real anger at someone. But nothing is worse than my PMS. It's not regular PMS, it's actually got pretty severe symptoms (thoughts of suicide etc) and the anger I feel is uncontrollable. It can be over the tiniest thing not going my way. Like you know how when you iron and a piece of clothing might fold over? Unforgivable. I will blast that piece of clothing for deliberately disobeying me. And torch the ironing board as well. Damn PMDD. I get so angry at people that I have remove myself from the situation. I don't just call it anger, it's rage. I used to be quite the ranter on social media. Oh could I ever rant. People would applaud me for my way with words that could slice through the very heart of the person I was engaged in this verbal attack with. But letting that much anger hurt me emotionally and exhausted me, and I got to a point where I stopped caring about the argument so it felt like a waste of time. And it usually ended up with me cutting ties with a friend just to save them from my rants. Every month it was the same thing over and over again. I had to stop.
I'm actually pretty good at recognizing what has made me feel so angry, particularly because I have autism and even very little changes to an environment can make me angry. I used to feel a lot of emotions that I couldn't place (alexithymia) but now I'm a lot better at recognizing them, eventually. For example I get angry when objects are moved or things are done a way I wouldn't do them, or when people distract me from something I'm engaged in. The big one is when people keep trying to talk to me when I just want to be alone. So, if you do get angry and you don't know why take some time to find the source of that anger. It makes things less confusing and you do feel a little bit better. It's all about finding the source of your problem and working out a solution.
My emotions just flip switches. I can be smiling and happy one moment then in an instant I am ready to bite someone's head off. I am absolutely the nicest person you'll ever meet then all it takes is you saying the wrong thing and I write you out of the universe and these days I can't hold my tongue for anything.
Without any reason I can go from happy to being really angry. I really try not to be this way but I can't help myself.