@ajshell1: I don’t think you need to apologize for showing your frustration in this Feedback forum, IMHO. (If we can’t show our frustrations here, then where else can we?) On the other hand, I’m not discounting your apology either. I sympathize.
On a slightly more serious note, speaking as someone who has gone through serious ‘burn out’ over the years, may I suggest that maybe this is a habit that would be worth trying to change/modify.
In some cases, we as humans can learn habits that ‘work for us’ ‘good enough’ for our situation at the time, but which can become unhealthy or otherwise problematic later on as our situations change. For example, up until university, I was able to get by quite well in school by cramming for tests/quizzes/etc. and eventually started to pull all-nighters to cram as subjects got more and more complex. It even worked through most of university. But when I entered the workforce, the situation was significantly different, and ‘cramming’ and ‘all-nighters’ were no longer an option. But since that was the only way I knew ‘how to get stuff done’, I ended up making things very stressful for myself – leading directly to the whole ‘burn out’ thing I mentioned earlier. In recovery from burn-out, I’ve learned (and I’m still learning) new ways of ‘how to get stuff done’ that allow me to pace things out more. In retrospect, I would have been much better off if I had started learning alternatives to cramming much earlier.
So, I’m suggesting that if ‘getting irrationally angry’ seems to be one of your most effective learning strategies, it’s probably not really a sustainable strategy in the long run. It’s not really healthy to be irrationally angry much of the time, just as it wasn’t healthy for me to be in panic/crisis mode (anxiety-driven) all the time.
I’m actually using WaniKani in a secondary way to practice learning in a slow, steady, incremental, not-panicking, not-a-crisis mode, and I’m finding it very helpful for my sanity actually. Since Japanese is something I’m just learning for my own sake, not for any job or for school, there’s no deadline pressure, so I’m able to use it that way, almost like a ‘therapy’ of sorts.
If you’re in a similar situation, where Japanese is not crucial for your job or school, maybe you could try using WK in a similar way, to practice learning without invoking your ‘irrationally angry’ mode. Just an idea, just thought I’d share my own experience. Cheers!