All the Rage May 2014 | Page 8

REJECTION RAGE

What is rejection rage you ask? There are many forms of rage but there is a form of rage that not many people know about and it is called rejection rage. Rejection rage is usually a result of borderline personality disorder. Rejection rage is one of the symptoms of this disorder. It is basically when someone cannot handle rejection well . Rejection ranging in any catergory from criticism, and perceived abondonment from loved ones. Those individuals with rejection rage show inappropriate intest anger or difficulty controlling anger. They show symptoms of frantic efforts to avoid abondment, interpersonal instability, unstable identity, potential harmful and impulsive behavior, suicide threats, affective instability, innappropriately intense, uncotrolled anger, and feelings of emptiness, and many more. But altogether of these symptoms the ones that are most likely causing this rejection rage would be the frantic efforts to avoid abondonment and their feeling of emptiness. Those two things alone are the main reasons behind why people would experience this feeling in the first place. Although rejection rage can be quite scary for those involved there are ways to treat it and control it. Rejection rage is only a threat when not controlled.