How to stop getting angry at video games Reddit

getting angry at video games is not something new for me I've been doing it for a long time, I only get mad when I start losing or someone that I have to fight in the game is holding enough pressure that I might lose, really what I'm asking help for is to be okay with losing, but I found that when I'm in a call and the person I'm calling is watching me play I don't seem to get nearly as mad, not that I don't I still get a bit upset but not nearly as much as if I was just playing on my own, but I don't really want to call with someone every time I want to play, again I only seem to get mad when I'm losing, lost or might lose, basically I'm asking how to be okay with losing, if anyone can offer any advice I would really appreciate that

Long story short I get extremely angry at competitive video games. I enjoy video games but as soon as I mess up or do bad (which is often) I end up getting sent over the edge.

Because of this I’ve hurt myself and broken things and I’m not proud of it. I don’t get that mad at anything else and it’s never caused me to hurt someone else (I never would let it).

I know I should play different kinds of games, and I try to, but I always end up back at the games that upset me.

Does anyone else relate to this? Or maybe have advice or help understanding it?

I mean really I don't know how to not get angry. I know that my thoughts are just thoughts and aren't facts but I feel like I can't just not get angry, it's impossible. The harder I try not to get angry, the more it bottles up inside and then it gets to a point where I can't hold it in anymore and I get really angry all at once and probably quit the game or something or worse might even slam my desk or something embarrassing (slippi unranked).

Edit: Wow really did not expect this to kinda blow up. Was just angry and decided to resort to venting my frustration onto the internet but, I've gotten a lot of meaningful and thought out responses that I'm definitely going to take into account next time I play. Thanks everyone.

Hi everyone! I know this might have been asked before, but I have a problem. I get really mad easily in video games especially in FPS-games. When I die a few times in a row it starts to get to me. I usually notice it and try to calm down to not get more angry but most of the time it doesn't work. For example when I play Overwatch and my teammates just won't change heroes to the situation I get mad and think "We could be doing so much better only if those idiots would change their heroes" or sometimes I just might get mad at my bad performance. Do you have any tips how to control anger? I don't want to stop playing shooters it's one of my favorite genres. Thank you for help!

I'd like to think of myself as a cool and collective person but when I'm playing online video games I'm something else. I become a sore loser basically, get angry, punch/slam my desk.

I'm about to uninstall Hearthstone because I find myself getting angry too much. Already uninstalled another game (Starcraft) a year ago because of the same reason.

I'm really bad when it comes to losing to other people, Here's how it usually goes:

I play, I lose over a dumb mistake I made, I quite literally slap my self hard in the face because I made a really dumb mistake and I deserved it.

Afterwards, I lose another game, this time because the other guy was using overpowered stuff/stuff that require 0 skill to use.

That results in me throwing my pillows across the room and punching my bed and stuff.

My situation is pretty bad, and I find my self only ever able to play single player games and get really good at them (and even though I might slap/hit my self for making really dumb mistakes, I do it less often and I can't get angry at other people)

How can I stop getting angry at video games? If it helps I'm pretty bad at controlling emotion in real life too.

Just left my friends after getting rather enraged at them in a game of SFxT.

I have a feeling that playing fighting games tends to make me more angry and I probably need to find a way of combating this anger. Are there any tips you could give me as how to stay calm and refrain from yelling expletives?

Thank you, GlalieSpirit

I know a lot of people will say "its just a game" or "its part of the experience"... yes I know that, but sometimes I get very frustrated when I'm losing. It doesn't happen in team based games though, but most of the time its just me when I'm losing. It's even worse when opponents decide to shove it in my face even more. After each loss, I always up end up punch my knuckles together or slamming the desk.

How do you guys deal with losing in order to calm down? Need serious replies on how to deal with this.