What are your 'berserk buttons'?

I can understand and agree with this. I used to be pretty guilty of this when I was younger, but I honestly didn't know better at that point.
But I wasn't exactly the type of person you described. I've always cared for my partners and helped them with their problems to the best of my ability, and I've never dated anyone I didn't truly like (as far as I can remember at least).

To add on to your point, something else would be when people will say "I love you" to their partner but don't even mean it or express it. They'll just say it because they feel like they need to, because they're in a relationship or something, and not because they actually feel that way towards their partner.
This is usually seen among middle school relationships, but can also been seen in high school and even adult relationships. It's just sad and pointless. If you're gonna say something, at least mean it. And if you actually do mean it, then show it. It's easy to say 3 words over and over again, but if you don't actually display your affection, then those words are absolutely meaningless.

In regards to your depression point, I have something similar that really bothers me. It frustrates me when someone uses depression as an excuse for being sad, gloomy, and/or unmotivated for a small period of time, and also over something ridiculous. I can't stand it when someone does that. Now, if you've actually been diagnosed by a professional and/or take medication for it, then I'll believe you have depression. It angers me so much when people self-diagnose themselves without getting the opinion of a professional.
Depending on your situation, I'll still show sympathy/empathy, because I'm a decent human being and can understand why you probably feel that way. But if you're crying over something that you could simply ignore/not do/bite your tongue and tough it out, I won't feel any sympathy/empathy for you. It's just pointless, and I'm not gonna waste my time trying to feel for you.

Another huge one is when people lie to me about something stupid. Not just when they lie, but when they make it so damn obvious that it's a lie. Or sometimes it's not so obvious, but I end up finding out later that it's a lie.
Allow me to give you an example of an actual situation that happened once. I'll use "Steve" as a pseudo name:

Me: "Yo you wanna go to the gym today?"
Steve: "Naw I'm going to the movies with my girlfriend soon"
Me: "Oh aight cool, tomorrow then"
An hour or so later, his girlfriend (who's also my friend) texts me like usual, we have a normal convo, and then she says the following:
Her: "Is Steve with you?"
Me: "No lol I'm at home"
Her: "He said he was going to the gym with you"
Me: "I asked him but he said he was going to the movies with you"

Not only did my friend lie to me, but to his girlfriend as well. They weren't exactly in their best moments of their relationship either, and this didn't make it any better.
My friend has a HUGE history of lying though. Ever since I met him when I was 10 years old, he's been a liar. Of course, I don't really let that get in the way of keeping him as one of my best friends, because friendship is more than that. He's a good person when he wants to be, he just lies too much.
I don't like liars though. Even if you're a really good friend of mine, I'll call you out without a problem if you tell me a lie. "Hey sorry man, I've been busy doing this and this, I haven't had much time to chill". No no, you've been at home playing video games, watching anime, and texting friends, like you do almost every day. No need to lie about it, I'd much rather hear the truth. I already know the truth anyway, so it'd be pointless to lie at that point.
Of course, I'd be lying if I said that I never lie. Everyone lies, whether you want to admit it or not. But to constantly lie or to lie about something I already know the truth to are what piss me off the most.

 

I find myself quite an irate person at times, but generally, I am very calm. There aren't lot's of things that get me angry, because I don't get angry at anybody. But press my berserk button, and I will feel a rage inside.

One of the things that fluster me is when people talk about themselves, and themselves only. They treat themselves as if they were the special ones, always seeking attention. In other words, they point something special about themselves such as an ability or experience and talk about it to everybody, saying: "Can you believe I did this? It's so weird though!" up to three weeks after it happened. It happens quite a lot at school. Another example would be when somebody does something amazing, and they spoil it by making themselves feel special. It's a little hard to explain, so I'll provide a scenario. I'll use the names Red and Giovanni.

Red (to a small group of friends): Wow! I can finally play a classical piece on the piano!
Giovanni: Oh, I can already do that.

Also, I hate it when people try to prove others wrong, or make themselves right, elaborating their point correctly, yet what they said isn't true. It's a situation I always come across. Also, when I say something that's true, they always say it's false, 'correcting me' with a wrong statement. Or when they say a statement that is incorrect, they be mean to me when I try to politely correct them.

The thing that makes me angry the most is animal cruelty. I value animals and nature to the core of my heart. Humans treat animals as if they were 'things', or mere objects that can be used however they like, but they aren't. I don't want to speak much about this, because then I'll start to rant.

 

On the topic title, berserk buttons? I don't have any of those. Things annoy me, yeah, but I have never been in a physical or psychological or emotional state that could possibly be described as "berserk", ever.

If there are things that make me grumble with annoyance (the closest I get to berserk), it's probably unchained bigotry. I mean yeah, bigotry exists, and when bigots eventually die off they'll take their views with them, so if they just shut up about it I can be patient until they die off. *shrug*

I psychologically just can't go berserk though. My mind doesn't see the benefit of it. What comes of going berserk? More angry people? Non-benificial, that course of action does not compute.

 

I've never really found sexism or any of those discrimination a big point of anger for me, mostly because I love defying the points that are made in those arguments. It ends up being more of a sense of amusement for me since I can use that to mess with them since they're going around saying dumb stuff.

There are a few things that really do get me instantly annoyed, though I don't get annoyed by much else. First off is arrogance, especially if it's being used in an attempt at flirting. Wow. All that makes me want to do with them is connect my fist with their face at high velocity. I believe no-one is inherently better than anyone else, though everyone has strengths and weaknesses for sure. Just seeing people who believe that they're superior to everyone gets me steamed.

I'm the most angered by other girls who act dumb or helpless so that a guy will like them. I'll explain why in as rational a way as I can.

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SERIOUSLY WHY THE FUCK DO PEOPLE DO THIS? IT'S NOT ATTRACTIVE! IT'S NOT FUNNY! SO WHY?! DON'T BE A FUCKING DUMBASS AND MAKE THE REST OF US HAVE TO DEAL WITH YOUR USELESS PETTY SELF WHEN YOU'RE PROBABLY GONNA MOVE ON TO ANOTHER GUY IN ANOTHER FIFTEEN FUCKING MINUTES. ESPECIALLY IF WE'RE IN A GROUP TOGETHER AND I HAVE TO RELY ON YOUR STUPID ASS. AND THEN DON'T CONDESCENDINGLY CALL ME LESBIAN OR SOME SHIT THAT I'M NOT FOR NOT ACTING THE SAME AS YOU. THAT'S NOT BEING COY AND STRAIGHT, THAT'S NOT HAVING A DAMN BRAIN AND BEING USELESS. I'M ALSO ACTUALLY AROMANTIC SO FUCK YOU. JOHN FUCKING CENA THIS ONE GETS ME.

Okay so I have some strong feelings about that one, and a bit of personal experience. Probably why I hate it so much and why it just pisses me off to no end, aside from it being a damn nuisance for everyone around them and you know what I'll stop here.

Anyways, those are probably my "berserk buttons," aside from obvious points of anger like insulting my family or being unnecessarily lewd.

 

About being 'berserk', I never feel that way. I simply can't let this anger take the best of me. Unless it's my funny uncle annoying me again. But really, I never go 'berserk'. I am usually a calm person. I've also read somewhere that the minute you let someone make you angry or sad is the minute you let them take control of your feelings and emotions, even though they aren't directing those feelings towards you.

 

I've had the same experience with certain individuals, I thought they were people that I could finally consider as 'friends' but in the end they ended up making a complete mockery out of me. I try my best to avoid them now

 

There isn't really a specific that severely annoys me, I get annoyed by almost anything. Maybe I'm a bit of a sour person, but oh well. One of the most annoying things though is when people make fun of others in front of their face. Now I make fun of people all the time, but I make sure never to do that when I'm with them, that's just too douchy for my taste. Another irritating thing is when people don't take something seriously when you're really passionate about it. One thing that pisses me off to no end is when there's those stupid middle aged women (they don't necessarily have to be women but they're the one who're guilty of this most of the time) who visit the Dutch football matches while they don't care at all. This one time I saw watching NL - Turkey and we were down 0-1 in an extremely important qualifaction match with only a few seconds remaining and one of our players missed an opportunity to equalize, right after they showed a close up of some woman jumping up shouting then sitting down laughing WHEN WE WERE ON THE BRINK OF LOSING, it was too frustrating. What's worse, when watching a match on TV, my mom is guilty of this too >_> Thankfully we still equalized in injury time, but still. Maybe it's a weird thing to get mad about, but I always get super heated when it comes to football lol.

 

It doesn't take a lot to make me mad to the point where I start mouthing off to you, but if someone makes me mad enough I'll get violent and hit them.

This one time there was a group of preppy girls in my class making fun of me because I'm 'emo.' I confronted them and started telling the, off, but one of the,m, and I'm not joking, said 'just go and cut yourself like an emo is supposed to do you fag.' There are no words to describe how offending that was to me, and I immediately punched her so hard I broke her nose. I got suspended for it but I didn't regret it at all, she deserved it

 

I think one of my biggest points of anger is simple ignorance. Toxic masculinity, prejudice against LGBT+ people, racist "jokes," basically any action that willingly and knowingly causes harm to someone else. It's something I've had to learn to tolerate, but it's difficult for me to bite my tongue. While we're on it, the entire "comedy has no boundaries" mindset and the "I'm not racist/sexist/homophobic, I'm mean to everyone!" philosophy fucking disgusts me. If you want to have a serious discussion about LGBT+ struggles, racism, misogyny, the Holocaust, sexual assault, HIV/AIDS...the list goes on, that's fine. But there are PLENTY of things that shouldn't be joked about, and you don't have the right to poke fun at people just because you physically can.

Holier-than-thou motherfuckers who think grades and IQ are the be-all-end-all measure of intelligence. Grades are not a way to scale intellect, they're a way to scale work ethic in a bordering-trivial program. IQ is an idea of how smart you CAN be, not how smart you ARE. You don't have to be an A+ student or have an IQ over 140 to be an intelligent human being. You have to do something intelligent. Another thing, people who think intelligence can be gauged on personality. I'm a rather bubbly person, I'm talkative, I'm not your typical "quiet brooding kid in the back of the class" type. This doesn't mean I'm stupid. It just means I don't have a pole for a spine.

Music elitists. People who think music has to be constantly inventive, original, and be completely different from anything done before. The only reason I think an artist should be looked down on, is if they have no part of the creative process aside from their own vocals. If they don't write their own music, they don't compose it, they don't produce it...etc. If someone makes music that "sounds exactly like another artist," whatever. It doesn't make them a bad artist, it means they sound similar to another artist. If you have something interesting to say, it shouldn't matter how you get your point across. Music is about how an artist felt, it's not about how you perceive it's sound.

 

But sweetheart, didn't you like it when I told you about how many gym badges I had while flirting with you?

I have a single berserk button that hasn't been pushed, and I'll keep it that way! I haven't been truly angry before, and I don't see any sense in it. Annoyance alone is a time consuming and energy consuming uselessness, so anger is only bound to be worse. Regardless, the berserk button I have is physical harm unto my closest friends and family.

 

When someone uses "autistic" as an insult. I will seriously snap.

 

Well, when people insult mental illnesses. That really pushes my buttons, but if someone hits me or something and it wasn't a friend I start to shake with anger, then if they keep going I snap and end up screaming at them and sometimes hurting them, it's not really something I'm proud of but it doesn't happen much (luckily) so I'm usually pretty calm.

But I'd like to know if anyone else is like this, as I'm really curious

 

My berserk button? Well, it's quite easy to press, as long as the right people are around me. Those people have to be your typical kind of teenagers, that are incapable of doing anything by themselves, always blame others for everything, criticize the teachers all the time and call them stupid names, are rude to others, in short: douchebags who think they know everything better than others. I'm in a class filled with them this school year, and as someone who values justice, treating others equally and the truth, I simply can't stand them. Just being around them and hearing them say things in that typical way of them is enough to bring up a very irritated feeling inside of me, but I don't snap. Snapping them won't do me any good, because they'd just turn their "we are the best" attitude to me.
Also, one of them does kickboxing.
I'm out.

 

I like to think I'm a rational person, but if there is something that sets me off is people who don't work hard and people who blame others for their faults.

Alright, there's this girl in my dance group. She is the laziest person when it comes to doing something she's expected to do. She always wants to be in the "best" dances, but she doesn't put in the effort so the best dances look awful. She always comes late to practice and sometimes she doesn't even show up. I go to the same school as her as well and that's basically all we talk about. The only reason she took AP Chemistry was because she heard the teacher was easy, not to pass to AP test which the class is designed for. What's even worse is when she took it and got a 1, she was proud of it. That's no way to live life. Sure you got an A in the class, but you didn't learn anything. It really pissed me off.

Then, there are the people who blame others for their faults. I'm sorry, but you have no one else to blame when you're the one who is responsible. There is this other girl in one of my classes. We have this teacher who will excuse us from the final as long as we have over 100% in the class. This is not hard as long as you do the work because each assignment is like 20/15 points if you do it correctly. She wanted to blame me for not having over 100% and went on to basically verbally attack me for it. I'm sorry, but what did I do? You didn't do the work, so you don't get the points. You get what you earned because if you didn't do any of the work required for the class. It's not hard to figure out went wrong. Why blame me? It's not like I stole your points. Follow instructions and take action for yourself. You aren't helpless but just lazy and incompetent.

End of my rant.