When I'm angry, why do I always feel the need to hurt myself?

Sometimes it seems like you have no one else to take the anger out on, so you tend to take it out on yourself.

Sometimes it can be hard to process emotions in a healthy way. Anger can often lead to a tendency to destroy things, which is why sometime people hit pillows when angry. If the anger you're feeling is toward yourself, you could be looking to take it out on yourself.

When angry..people often tend to (try) hurt themselves..they become narrow minded and are unable to think,act and behave properly..so things so wrong :P

I think that it is one of that ways how you try to calm the inner ache, so you hurt yourself to make yourself feel easier

When we feel angry and with no one to blame, it's easiest for us to blame ourselves, however wrong that blame may be placed, we blame ourselves because we judge ourselves far more harshly than we judge anyone else and when we feel like we are found wanting, we feel the need to punish ourselves.

Because you want to cover up that pain with another pain, so when you hurt your self you feel numb. I know this, because I used to self harm and it made me feel better, I used to do it when I was angry, sad and feeling useless. I get that you might think it helps but it really doesn't. You get addicted to it and it will just get worse and worse. Please try talking to a family member because they will get you the professional help you need and when you get angry you need to feel the need to hurt your self again :)

I think when you're angry, you lose the thing in the back of your mind that helps make rational choices. So by being angry, you don't think that what you're doing is wrong, and you may have built up frustration and don't know how to express it in a safe way.

I know that it's pretty natural to want to lash out when angry often brought about by great frustration or deep hurt. And often we've been taught not to lash out at other people. So instead we use self-harm to lash out at ourselves, to punish ourselves instead. It's a learned pattern that can be unlearned with time and help.

Because you don't love yourself either due to bullies or something that happened with you in the past.

you might feel as though you 'deserve' punishment for something that has made you angry - please note however, that you, under no circumstance deserve punishment.