Annoyed

Slightly bothered or irritated. Signs that something or someone is slightly irking them. Is still able to utilize their head in the best way to find a reasonable solution.

Frustrated

Anger starts to transition from a mild bother into something more. Here, the brain can still be able to think rationally, but because of your heightened resentments or dissatisfaction with what’s happening, it might not be as easy to stay calm and clearheaded.

Hostile

Hostility tends to happen when there has been a large build-up of stress, and anxiety. Tolerance is too low for them to cope calmly anymore. Hostility is the stage where you anger tends to boil up and out of you before a solution can be found to help alleviate it.

At this point, the body’s ‘fight or flight’ system that is set up to warn you of danger takes over. Since this response affects the brain by dampening the parts responsible for moderating social behavior and proper planning, trying to ‘think’ your way down from your hostility will probably only result in further frustration and anger.

Enraged

This happens very quickly, before the rational center of the brain has time to consciously think about your anger, and the survival center takes over. You might find yourself enraged for many of the same reasons that sparked your hostility, and reaching this stage may also indicate that your ‘reactive’ brain center is generally more active than your ‘planning’ brain center.