lose it vs lose self-control

lose it

verb
  • To become explosively angry; to lose one's temper. 

  • To begin to laugh uncontrollably. 

  • To feel devastated, or distraught, especially when one's sadness is overwhelming. 

  • To lose one's mind, go crazy. 

  • To lose control of a situation. 

  • To cease to have a skill or ability, to lose one's touch, to be washed up. 

lose self-control

How often have the words lose it and lose self-control occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )