Constant Anger or Sad Moodlet

@cchb87 , I'm not sure about the angry one since I haven't encountered that yet.🤔  The sad one being due to aspirations not being met sounds like the new Wants & Fears system that has replaced the old Whims system. (And perhaps the anger one is also part of the new system, but I'm not sure.)  I have some of my Sims get sad when not enough of their wants have been met, and then they develop a special kind of trait relating to this.  I'm still working out how this system works myself since it is not only different to the Whims system that Sims 4 used to have, but it is also different from the Wants & Fears system that the Sims 2 had!  So I am a bit confused at the moment as well! 🤪

But then again, this might be completely different than the problem that you have.  I just think it sounds like it could be the same cause. I feel that part of my problem is not understanding how the new system works yet. 

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This is not the same Fear, and special trait, but it is very similar to the fear of not having their wants met in the pictures below:

This first picture shows a desire to discuss their fear of death that is related to the new trait that shows up:

This one shows the new trait that elders can get that is related to the new wants and fears:

This is similar to when I was playing a teen who got suddenly got the Fear of unfulfilled wants (it hadn't been there before).  This was triggered by me not fulfilling her wants in a timely manner (I was too focused on figuring out how the new high school worked as well as other things in the pack, and I forgot about her wants)  My guess is that this is a temporary fear, that possibly will go away if I meet enough of her wants, but I'm not 100% sure about that yet. In the case of the elder in the pictures, I need to either give the Grim Reaper a Death Flower, or else talk to another elder about his fear of death, and then I think the new trait will go away.  But again, I'm not sure.  I've been too busy discovering the pack, and not concentrating on their wants and fears. 

Does your Sim have any spiky bordered wants or a new trait related to a fear? 🤔

I had the same issue last night. My sims were constantly angry about their lives being controlled and for not having their aspirations filled, but the aspirations would be the "promotion" whim/want which takes a few sim days to fulfill. It was very frustrating because they will get mad WHILE at work, which in turn LOWERS their work performance and takes a lot longer for them to get the promotion to fulfill their whim/want/aspirations. It was very frustrating, to say the least. Every once and a while I understand the angry moodlet but every day made the game exhausting to play. My sim ended up becoming enraged and having a cardiac explosion even though I had her stand in front of a mirror for a few hours to calm herself down. 

This Is happening to me too! It's ever since they added wants and fears to the game, my sims are either always really angry, sad or tense because of their jobs. Makes the game almost unplayable, so frustrating!

So an update to this:

This is a daily issue I have for both sims. Daily. They are tense as they are worried about blah, when I don't address it (as I am trying to get them to eat/pee/shower to go to work/school in a goodish mood) the tense turns to sad. The sad, if left unfixed (usually happens while they're at work/school) will develop into extreme anger. This is the sequence every time. On sims days off, I can try and get them to work through it or address a tense emotion, however, each time, it evolves into sad then extreme anger.

I am guessing this is a new addition to the game. If it is, it sucks. Period. The fact it is daily is even worse and makes this a feature that turns me off from this game again (I was turned off a few years ago because of an issue patch related that took too long to fix that cause the game to end or freeze after an hour or so). The only solution I found was a Mod, unfortunately. For some reason the game creators thought our having the ability to remove an unwanted moodlet was too powerful and as a result a Mod has allowed me to click off the sad moodlet when it inevitably appears. What I found is when the tense moodlet appears, if I use the Mod to click off it, it is instantly replaced by the sad moodlet which when clicked off is instantly replaced by the extreme anger moodlet. So this daily issue I've been dealing with is all connected. 2x a day every sim day. 

Someone doesn't want our sims to succeed.

Btw, when I leave the sims to do whatever they want (usually when I go make dinner or whatever) they do not attempt to address their wants. So if this is something the game designers put in, they should have had the sims try to naturally seek out their desire or want to fix it themselves.

I will be using the Mod until this issue is fixed, hopefully within a year as that seems to be how long it typically takes to fix stuff. I dislike using mods as I feel it takes away from any game, though I can see why some choose to use mods to enhance games, I am not one of those. 

This Mod has made the game 100% playable again as I can right click and remove the moodlets 3 times and go on with their day.

The Mod is explained here: https://youtu.be/oaynD2YtQx8 by lilsimsie. (it is the first one she explains) She is a very helpful youtuber.

Hopefully this helps everyone who responded with similar issues. Beware: it is very powerful and can make gameplay boring if you use it for anything else. I only use it for the moodlet issue above.

I understand being angry from time to time, but in my real life, I don't hang onto anger and sadness and I don't want my Sims hanging onto anger and sadness either. This should be a choice and not forced onto Sims. This needs to be fixed. 

While your solutions did prove temporarily effective, they did not help in the long term. One trait stuck (the death one) no matter the solutions offered in research, none cleared the fear. Now if the sim had witnessed  death, I would totally understand the fear being permanent and perhaps flaring up every once in awhile, but it is daily. I have another sim that as a child would be tense about being controled, turn sad afterwards when dreams weren't fulfilled, and then angry for 3 hours. Every day. The whole 3 mood cycle would last a total of 6 hours. Every day. Again, I get the sims want to make their own decisions, free will and all, but even humans must control themselves, as children too, so if this is to make sims more lifelike, then this system definitely needs an off button (separate from the old system that was in place).

Thank you for the help on this.

Reward traits help alot with that. One can completely prevent tense and embarassing moodlets. As for other negative moodlets, you can buy moodlet remover potions in the reward store. They are very cheap.

The wants & fears can be turned off in the gameplay settings but you have to enable and disable that every time you travel or start the game. Not the best solution but at least as long as you play you can get rid of it for awhile.

@sirdayne , not to mention a lot of people who play The Sims 4 are playing on a console and therefore can't use Mods to fix these issues! 😭
I choose not to use Mods, but that is my choice, and if I don't like it at least I know I can change it at any time! 😅  But console players have no choice, and therefore rely on the fixes that are given to us in patches to fix problems in the game. 

I've had this issue for close on 2 years now I think. For me it's the Sadness Moodlets. I've reported them on here a few times and I'm on Console so no mods to mitigate the effects of the problem. I've also never used cheats but these days am sorely tempted.

It affects gameplay so badly because Sims slow down and trudge about sadly and totally without cause. CoL made it much worse. I love the vacations but my adventurous Sims get the Homesick Moodlet as soon as they extend a holiday and it sticks, it says it lasts for 4 hours but it starts again when the 4 hours are up and even lasts for up to a day after they return home. They get the Missing Furry Friends Moodlet when with said furry friends. I mean, if that rabbit could speak it would say "dude, you're getting a bit needy". The holidays cause a real problem as they don't complete when they should and my Sims get another Sadness Moodlet for that. They get another one for being near an evil Sim when they're not...I feel like cute little toddlers set that off so that's a tad worrying! I do adopt them but I always check they're not evil before I allow them through the gate.

The worst Anger Moodlet for me was from the phonecall about an inheritance, that one lasts for 7 days of pure rage. I've got a rubbish memory thanks to pain meds and I have to try and remember to give the right answer so that doesn't happen again! I keep a Notes app on my mobile so I can jot these tips down lol. I shouldn't be stressed to bits when my Sim gets a phonecall!

It wasn't caused by Wants and Fears but I can't speak to whether that addition made it worse... because that patch broke my game. So I've been waiting for Console crashes to be addressed before I can play again.

So you know when you're having tech issues and you've also got a depressed and weeping Sim...ah, fun times!