and other anger when finding your strength
Effort meeting a wall. You pushed, the world didn't give, and the energy has nowhere to land.
FRUSTRATED. The wall between you and the thing you're trying to do. Effort keeps meeting resistance, the charge backs up with nowhere to spend itself, and the heat climbs each time the block holds. Researchers tie it straight to a blocked goal (the frustration-aggression link, Dollard): thwart the aim and anger follows.
STUCK. Effort that has nowhere left to go and stops trying. You've pushed at the same block long enough that pushing feels pointless, so the charge just sits. Where frustration is still hitting the wall, stuck is standing in front of it, done swinging.
BORED. Energy with nothing worth doing. The engine's running and nothing on offer catches, so attention slides off everything it lands on. Underneath it, often, is a low anger that there's nowhere good to aim.
EXASPERATED. Patience worn all the way through. AGGRAVATED. The itch scratched wrong, again. THWARTED. Stopped just short of the thing. BLOCKED. The path closed, the drive still on. STYMIED. Outwitted by the obstacle. FED UP. Past the last straw. IMPATIENT. The wait itself becomes the enemy. RESTLESS. Charge with no channel, pacing. ANTSY. Restlessness gone into the limbs. STAGNANT. Still so long it starts to rot. TRAPPED. The walls close, no way out. LISTLESS. No pull toward anything at all. JADED. What used to spark does nothing now. CHECKED-OUT. Present in body, gone in attention.
This arc gives anger a job. It starts as fire in the body, learns its target, survives broken trust, finds its voice, and ends with the hold broken and the life back.