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

When you are angry you feel you need to hurt yourself because you think that you are the one that did something wrong.

When your angry everyone deals with anger differently, like some people will scream into a pillow or some want to throw things, it's just based on how you deal with your anger.

actual pain can often take away the emotional pain that we can't adequately express. it's an odd dichotomy, yet a difficult one to suppress. I haven't yet found a way to withhold the initial instinct, yet when I'm able (and the operative word here is able, because I often can't) to say aloud (to whoever - therapist or goddamn stranger the hurt and anger and whatever nebulous fuckupedness I feel at that exact moment... I end up unharmed by my own hand.

Are you safe right now? I don't want you to hurt yourself while I try to help you with this. There could be many reason you feel the need to hurt yourself when your angry. Is it anger at yourself or because of something some one else did to you?

Alot of the times its just a resort to blow off steam, its typically not out of self hate or depression. I hope you get better dear :)

Maybe some part of you feels that you can release that anger bottled inside you by harming yourself.

Because it's like when someone else makes you angry you want to hurt them, so when you make yourself angry you want to hurt yourself.

When angry some may feel the need to control something. They moght feel that the only thing they can control is physical pain they bring to themselves.

When angry, I think built up aggression becomes overwhelming and because of that we tend to want to express it by inflicting it on someone or something. The best thing to do is find an alternative source to release that tension, such as finding a hobby, like boxing. It's best to find another way to relieve yourself of the anger without harming yourself.

When you are angry you need to express that anger somehow, in this case you maybe think that the best way to get rid of the anger is to hurt your self, but i suggest you: go to some sport club (box or just kicking something) or go to paintball, express yourself with some activity (write about it, draw, play something), :)