Angry/aggressive outbursts often come from trauma.
A patient that grew up in an abusive environment adapts; they learn how to survive and what to do to stay safe. Of course, since this is an abusive environment, they're not safe. That's one of the reasons that when said patient is put into a safe and loving environment, they become unsettled, or uncomfortable.
The patient is uncomfortable in a loving environment. This can put the patient on edge, or even make them completely unresponsive. When the patient is in an unfamiliar environment, they become suspicious. They don't know what to expect from the other people. They are so uncomfortable in fact, they resort to what they know gets a negative response from people. A familiar negative response. They could start behaving rudely, yelling or screaming at people for no reason, etc.
there isn't much you can do to help these people in this situation other than to talk to them about why they're doing it. It usually takes a long time to secure a safe relationship with people who do this, but I encourage your writing characters to be patient and to understand what's going on. Of course, not everyone understands, so this might and probably will lead to conflict.
Don't push the character who acts like this to get better immediately. If the character is like this at the beginning of the book, it might take until the middle for them to become even slightly comfortable around the other characters. It takes time and patience for people to recover from this, so acknowledge that and write accordingly.
Do's and don'ts:
Do: give them actual negative outbursts. Don't just make them rude, have them go into full blown arguments for small things. Any small inconvenience can trigger one of these outbursts, so I'd advise you don't give them the perfect time.
Don't: make them recover fast and without a rocky time. Recovering from these feelings can take years, so don't expect your character to get better quickly. Make the process of recovery difficult. It's not easy.
Do: give them special interests! Give them character traits other than being aggressive. Your character could be a really big dinosaur nerd and get offended whenever someone doesn't get the name for a pterodactyl correct.
Don't: make them completely unresponsive or anti-social. Your character is allowed to have friends, or loved ones. Just because their guard is up constantly doesn't mean they don't talk to anybody.
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This is probably one of the feelings I know most about. I may touch up on this topic again in the future, but this is the basics.
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