anger

Chilling__Echo · Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 6:30 pm Post subject: anger

grr, i'm beginning to realize that i have an anger problem. i think. Question

i really need to go see a counselor (i'd rather see an psychiatrist b/c there i can just tell them about how i feel about my disorder and how it affects me, not my whole life story and little things that happen. i can talk about my disorder but going too in depth scares me). very often now, for the past few months i just feel exhausted emotionally. i'll get so on edge over the littlest things and i let it build up inside me. i cannot let things go. eventually i begin to feel like i want to get back at the whole human race. i hope i never meet any of you on the road...

but at the same time i don't want to express these feelings to anyone. i feel like people think i use putting a label on something as an excuse. because for some reason these days, it's "cool" to have a mental disorder and to have to take pills. i just know what i feel and i think no one would believe me. i also felt this when going through be diagnosed with SAD

so anyway, does anyone else feel like they have an anger problem? and do you think it has anything to do with SA? i think alot of mine comes from pride which goes back to SA.

Fredscarecrow · Advanced User Joined: Dec 11, 2004 Posts: 423

i think i have a few..things which could be connected as an anger problem but ive almost swallowed them and from that ive caused more emotional problems..if that makes sense. i never show anger but i am very...unpredictable emotionally.

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unleashed · Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 7:47 am Post subject:

I think we have to accept our anger, look at it, allow it to be. we can use it in a positive way or we can just use it to be destructive either to self or others. either way anger is a natural inevitable emotion.

GettingThere · Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 10:18 am Post subject:

On the positive side, I think that a reaction of anger is definately preferable to a reaction of depression which is just an awful thing. Watch that you don't let the SP thing break your spirit.

As Unleashed said, if you channel your anger in a positive way than it is probably not too bad a thing.

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Hamble · Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 10:40 am Post subject:

I agree echo, I think pride has a lot to do with it. I am too proud and because of my SP I get very angry and frustrated with myself and somtimes with other people.
I dont think you need to see a therapist over it, unless of course your anger is involving the use of a baseball bat on an unsuspecting bf Confused

I think what you're experiencing is normal, especially considering all that you have had to deal with. All a psychiatrist will do is teach you relaxation techniques or prescribe drugs...which you don't want.

When I feel anger I just go into the bedroom and lay in the dark somtimes listening to music and think things through, but somtimes it leaks out and I take things out on close loved ones (not physically! although I have thrown the odd mobile phone / cushion on the floor Rolling Eyes

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Excercise is also a good way to channel out any anger / frustrations. That and beer.

seek · Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 4:55 pm Post subject:

Im lost on this one... how does pride come into this? Shocked

LazerCarp · Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 4:59 pm Post subject:

I'm horribly angry 99% of the time, its just frustration really at not being able to get on with people but it displaces.

Chilling__Echo · Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 8:04 pm Post subject:

masterpiece, you couldn't have put it better. if any one thing was the most affected by SA, it would be my temper. if i feel like someone is mocking me, or treating me like i'm ignorant, it hits that *pride* nerve that goes back to SA and i feel like i'm going to loose my mind. and i also have a horrible habit of holding grudges. i'm still anger over things that happened years ago. especially if people use me, that gets me going too. so all that stays inside and builds up till it boils over.

at this point it's a no win situation. if i don't say anything and stay *civil*, i feel like shit because then i feel like the person won't know how i feel. if i lash out i feel bad later, really guilty.

so yeah, i got my work cut out for me.

seek · Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 4:27 am Post subject:

No no no no... sorry guys but i forgot to explain myself. What I mean is what link does SA have with pride, not anger.

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Scrabbl · Intermediate User Joined: Mar 15, 2005 Posts: 102