What would cause your mind to snap ?

[Ivailo Todorov]

Hello fellow escapists.I have been a lurker on these forums for quite a while and I recently asked myself while reading the "What can change the nature of a man" thread(link below):What will make me lose my mind.I have been a quiet guy all my life and found it hard to pinpoint what would truly make me snap and fly in to a murderous rage.

So what would have to happen to have your mind snap,people of the Escapist.Does it have to be the death of a loved one,loss of something precious or something else.

What can change the nature of a man: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.844914-Poll-What-can-change-the-nature-of-a-man#20815620

 

[tippy2k2]

Unless it's actually happened to you, I don't know if any of us can actually truthfully answer that.

I really have no clue. I've started seeing red over losing a freaking FIFA game and put a hole in the wall. After that, I made it an active point while playing to never do that again. I had been completely fine with no problems whatsoever. Went into a game of Madden versus a buddy (so completely fine and happy); he punched in a touchdown after a dumb mistake by me and I just went freaking livid in my living room (muted it so he couldn't hear ). I didn't actually break anything then because I caught myself but it was entirely out of left field considering how much progress I'd made. And that rage-fest was for an incredibly petty reason.

I can't imagine what it would be like if I went over to my Mum's house and found someone standing over her with a bloody knife in their hand. Would I freeze? Would I panic? Would I break down in tears? Would I rip the fuckers head off? I have absolutely no clue and I don't know that anyone else can actually answer it either.

I just got new golf clubs. Someone stealing them might do it too

 

[Padwolf]

For me, if someone dared hurt my animals on purpose I would lost my mind in an instant and would be in such a murderous rage people would have to stop me :/ I'm quite a quiet person too, I also have a hell of a lot of patience and I don't like violence much. But hell, anyone touch my animals in a way I don't like and that person is as good as dead.

Also if anyone bends my books so much so that the spine stays bent and the book only opens to that page I will lose my head for a moment. Books are very precious to me and I like to keep all my books in good condition. I like them to look like they've been read so I can accept some spine creases. But damn, bend it so that spine crease is huge... I will not hesitate in giving out a backhand to the face.

 

[EeveeElectro]

I've been through some shit that would break quite a few people I know. I'm able to deal with stuff fairly easy and remain optimistic so I assume it would take a LOT for me to completely snap although I have been on that verge before and it's usually because of a man.

I'm 99.99999999999% sure I'm gonna end up in a mental hospital at one point anyway.

For me, if someone dared hurt my animals on purpose I would lost my mind in an instant and would be in such a murderous rage people would have to stop me :/ I'm quite a quiet person too, I also have a hell of a lot of patience and I don't like violence much. But hell, anyone touch my animals in a way I don't like and that person is as good as dead.

This as well.

I've shocked a few people because how scary I turned when they threatened to hurt my cats.
That extends to family members and close friends too, the only time I've locked horns with someone is when they've insulted or hurt my family.

 

[Queen Michael]

Reading an entire Barbara Bickmore novel in one sitting. GODS that woman is awful at writing.

 

[Barbas]

I'm 99.99999999999% sure I'm gonna end up in a mental hospital at one point anyway.

Don't worry, Susan, we're all a little bit mad [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXcYujYR7lQ] here!

OT: I too am generally protective of animals, because they're just trying to make their way from one simple goal to the next in this crazy, crazy world.

Oh, and actually sitting through the entire Twilight series would probably break me in half. Then I'd have to break everything else. :C

 

[Heronblade]

I've snapped exactly once in my life, though it didn't result in anything serious. Put my fist through some drywall, I was damn lucky I didn't hit a stud.

That was directly after finding out that not only had someone I deeply cared for had been raped and sustained serious injuries, the man responsible was nowhere to be found.

I've felt unreasonable levels of anger to a lesser degree a few other times, all of the cases involved people or animals I consider to be family. That's the only "trigger" I've found. I've been in bad situations before that threatened my personal health and well being, I've been stressed, scared, depressed, etc. because of these, but not particularly angry.

 

[Someone Depressing]

I'm slightly misophonic.

High voices, very low voices, chalk-board nails/crying babies (very similiar noises, both physically and logaically, and parents are more irritated by both), car screeches, and sound of silence (you know, when your ears "fine tune" themselves because there's almost no noise at all?) and the sound of a computer that's overheating, all irritate me horribly.

I'm sure one of those things will incite rage in me that will end in someone's death.

On the other hand, realising the meaning of my existence would send me into a depression that would penultimately end with my suicide; that much is pretty clear.

Also having to watch another fucking episode of Fireman Sam, Honey Boo Boo or Total Drama would also cause my feeble mind to snap.

 

[Doclector]

Not sure. Honestly, the things you listed probably wouldn't do it to most people. Such events injure a mind, they bring on negative periods of a person's life, but that's mourning.

No, what you're talking about is a complete snap, a complete head-first dive into batshit insanity. Takes a lot more, most times.

However, i'm not most people. I admit that I can be rather unstable in the first place. I think I'd snap if I found no way forward in life. No way to even exist comfortably without going forward. I can't stand the thought of that. I guess that's why the end of uni terrifies me. Back out into the real world where you only make progress if someone else allows you to.

I think for most people though, most stable people, to take them from rational human being to absolute maniac would take something not just traumatic, but utterly counter to their understanding of the world, either an extreme supernatural experience or more simply and more likely, something terrible that they thought could not happen to them, and not in the way that people say that they didn't think they'd get cancer, even deeper than that, something they knew happened, but that they thought to be impossible to happen to them, like a born millionaire suddenly being homeless.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

Usually I'm very laid back in my approach to life and will actively go out of my way to avoid violent conflict, but the threat of physical violence to those I love makes me lose my shit. People can cause any amount of grief with me and I'll do my best to downplay it and find a peaceful solution, but if any of my close friends are likewise threatened I just wade in with the good old haymaker without even thinking. I'm not proud of this reaction but I just can't seem to help it.

 

[Alcamonic]

I could without a doubt say that witnessing someone robbing, raping or otherwise abusing a person or animal would make me end their useless waste-of-air life if I was given the chance.

 

[immortalfrieza]

For me, if someone dared hurt my animals on purpose I would lost my mind in an instant and would be in such a murderous rage people would have to stop me :/ I'm quite a quiet person too, I also have a hell of a lot of patience and I don't like violence much. But hell, anyone touch my animals in a way I don't like and that person is as good as dead.

This as well.

I've shocked a few people because how scary I turned when they threatened to hurt my cats.

Another vote for this one. Someone screws with my cats and I'd be surprised if I hadn't murdered someone in a blind rage by the end of it. My cats are the only members of my family that I would die to protect, and you can bet I'd avenge them too.

Don't break or steal my video games either, that won't end well.

 

[Angelous Wang]

If I lost a limb or eye or was castrated or if some one some how how managed to invade my mind a some how share the contents of my mind with the entire world.

I need to be able to function fully/independently, I need to be able to get off and I need the world to see the illusion/masquerade of me that I show it.

These are my breaking points. The would lead to my mass murder with suicide ending rampage.

The rest of the world can burn around me as long as these things are intact I will go on.

 

[kommando367]

That already happened when I stopped taking psychiatric meds several years ago. I've never seen that sort of thing happen twice to anyone.

 

[Poetic Nova]

Last time it happend for me -a few years ago- was when yeats of being bullied finally made me snap and in a blind rage I just started punching the crap out of one of the bullies. Not my proudest moment but the bullying did stop.

 

[Quazimofo]

I'm slightly misophonic.

High voices, very low voices, chalk-board nails/crying babies (very similiar noises, both physically and logaically, and parents are more irritated by both), car screeches, and sound of silence (you know, when your ears "fine tune" themselves because there's almost no noise at all?) and the sound of a computer that's overheating, all irritate me horribly.

I'm sure one of those things will incite rage in me that will end in someone's death.

On the other hand, realising the meaning of my existence would send me into a depression that would penultimately end with my suicide; that much is pretty clear.

Also having to watch another fucking episode of Fireman Sam, Honey Boo Boo or Total Drama would also cause my feeble mind to snap.

Penultimately end with your suicide? How does it end then?


As for me, I honestly don't know. I used to have very severe issues with anxiety disorder where I would disproportionately react to most instances of stress or any moderate misfortune. There were also some things I got absolutely sick of hearing and did react violently to when classmates would repeat them. Apparently a lot of people, especially children and teenagers, find me funny when I get angry in that specific way I did as a smaller child; probably because until recently I haven't been strong enough to cause any severe harm to anyone.

Suffice to say, I make it a point to deal with stress in other ways since then and/or not get to that level of stress in the first place. Thankfully I finally started getting treatment for my anxiety and depression, and I'm almost done with high-school, so I wont have to deal with the stereotypical teenager as much anymore (seriously, at my high school a third of the class are walking stereotypes and damn near everyone has at least a couple of the most annoying elements of "teenager". I wonder when self-awareness is supposed to kick in in the developmental cycle of humans and if alcohol and drugs severely impact it).

 

[Happiness Assassin]

Already happened. A shitload of stress, compounded by utter crushing sense of loneliness, and the death of a close family member. When people usually "snap" there is most likely a few reasons for it, unless the reason is pretty damn extreme.

 

[softclocks]

I could without a doubt say that witnessing someone robbing, raping or otherwise abusing a person or animal would make me end their useless waste-of-air life if I was given the chance.

You'd kill someone for robbing another person?

Sounds like psychotalk

 

[cikame]

Listening to my friends playing World of Warcraft, oh my god, i've never experienced anything more dreary and boring in my entire life.

Also Nicki Minaj, her voice, her face, anything.

 

[FPLOON]

What makes you say that I haven't snapped already? *twitches*

OT: The moment where I find out that this is all part of the Matrix, with the only person who has stood by me all this time is nothing more than the sole reason why I have yet to figure out that I'm nothing more than a bird trapped in a digital cage...

*pauses*

What was the question again? I blacked out a bit...