Brad Schipke explains that intense anger over small things signals a lowered stress threshold, often from trauma or PTSD. Your nervous system has less capacity to absorb everyday irritations before it breaks. These reactions aren't character flaws; they're signs you've hit your stress limit.
Why do I get so angry over little things? Well, this comes from something called your stress threshold. When you have PTSD or you've gone through trauma, your capacity to handle stress has been drastically lowered. So when stress keeps stacking up and stacking up in your life, you reach this breaking point very quickly. So when you step on a Lego and you explode, it's not because you're broken, but it's because your stress level is maxed out and PTSD has reduced your threshold on what you're able to handle.
