Being Overwhelmed

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Does anyone else feel like when you have a problem to solve (like an algebra question) that there is some kind of emotional or unseen wall that you must break through? If I can't get the answer after several tries, I get really frustrated to the point of hitting my head or wrist or breaking something and once I get past this extreme emotion, I can calm down and think clearly and am able to solve the problem.

Absolutely, except that I often can't even overcome that emotional barrier in the first place, and I end up just giving up and moving onto something else. Oftentimes, this will involve sulking over my failure until I forget about it and/or get distracted by something else. Sometimes, even after doing this, I'll still go back and sulk over my failure, or try again, fail, and sulk. On the rare occasion I try again and succeed, I'll be like "it's about f*****g time", like a weird mixture of anger and happiness, anger for the difficulty, happiness for the triumph.

Yep, like every day. Trying to teach myself to just get up and walk away rather than react. Sometimes for a few minutes sometimes a lot longer.
It gives me time to play solving the problem in my head once I'm removed from the situation. Often when I go back to it the solution has already been thought out or my mind isn't as anger fogged and I can get through it.

But, yea, when the emotions blow, boy do they blow

I've never hit any emotional walls as such. It has always been barriers of comprehension, and sometimes not directly related to the subject in question, but to philosophy, e.g. methodology. This can lead to frustration, which is an emotional response in itself, but this is not the real obstacle.

Yes. I think there is a brain chemistry thing going on. It doesn't seem to be a reaction I can control; I can only control how I react to the reaction.

Sometimes that happens constantly at every problem, other times (rarely) I shrug off that same kind of problem.