who here is lousy at dealing with anger?

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who here is lousy at dealing with anger?
MEE!! ! :oops: 67%  67%  [ 40 ]
Not ME. :bounce: 7%  7%  [ 4 ]
I dunno. :shrug: 13%  13%  [ 8 ]
I wanna nice yummy sherbet :chef: 13%  13%  [ 8 ]
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25 Apr 2016, 9:44 am

@ skydz

Analyzing things alone at quiet has been helpful. Talking to a therapist too. He tells me sometimes "these are things that can be said, addressed". I care less about lots of things, I'm more relaxed.

Yet, I absorb things like a sponge. I think we all do more or less. Spending time outside: noise, people, lights really are draining even when it's positive experience. I need alone time.

If listening to someone's misery, absorbing it, it can feel like anger but it's not. Right I'm literally nauseous from it.

The thing is not to let it build up. Express things more like a quieter constant flow. Not easy when you feel things that way, but not impossible to regulate better.


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25 Apr 2016, 2:58 pm

I picked the first option but can I still have a yummy sherbet? I used to throw things and knock chairs onto the ground when I was really mad until a few years ago(around when I turned 12). Now I internalize all my anger and just get really pissy for a while. I think this contributes to my everlasting depression that seems to get worse and worse.



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25 Apr 2016, 3:27 pm

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I picked the first option but can I still have a yummy sherbet? I used to throw things and knock chairs onto the ground when I was really mad until a few years ago(around when I turned 12). Now I internalize all my anger and just get really pissy for a while. I think this contributes to my everlasting depression that seems to get worse and worse.

it has been my experience that a lot of my depression was really squished/suppressed anger. so if I were you I would try to find a constructive outlet for that anger and not let it eat you up inside. :) and of course you can have a yummylicious sherbet :chef:



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25 Apr 2016, 3:36 pm

auntblabby wrote:
Soomander wrote:
I picked the first option but can I still have a yummy sherbet? I used to throw things and knock chairs onto the ground when I was really mad until a few years ago(around when I turned 12). Now I internalize all my anger and just get really pissy for a while. I think this contributes to my everlasting depression that seems to get worse and worse.

it has been my experience that a lot of my depression was really squished/suppressed anger. so if I were you I would try to find a constructive outlet for that anger and not let it eat you up inside. :) and of course you can have a yummylicious sherbet :chef:
Yeah, I'm reading my report and quite frankly I am seeing anger mentioned a lot that I didn't know was coming out.

So, I'm now wondering about that stuff too.


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25 Apr 2016, 3:56 pm

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auntblabby wrote:
Soomander wrote:
I picked the first option but can I still have a yummy sherbet? I used to throw things and knock chairs onto the ground when I was really mad until a few years ago(around when I turned 12). Now I internalize all my anger and just get really pissy for a while. I think this contributes to my everlasting depression that seems to get worse and worse.

it has been my experience that a lot of my depression was really squished/suppressed anger. so if I were you I would try to find a constructive outlet for that anger and not let it eat you up inside. :) and of course you can have a yummylicious sherbet :chef:
Yeah, I'm reading my report and quite frankly I am seeing anger mentioned a lot that I didn't know was coming out.

So, I'm now wondering about that stuff too.

it has been my experience that most anger is futile and most targets of anger do not deserve the attention paid to them. most folks that used to torque me off, I have found, are just upright furless walking dogs. a reasonable person would not get angry at a barking dog, but they might plug their ears.



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25 Apr 2016, 4:16 pm

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zkydz wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
Soomander wrote:
I picked the first option but can I still have a yummy sherbet? I used to throw things and knock chairs onto the ground when I was really mad until a few years ago(around when I turned 12). Now I internalize all my anger and just get really pissy for a while. I think this contributes to my everlasting depression that seems to get worse and worse.

it has been my experience that a lot of my depression was really squished/suppressed anger. so if I were you I would try to find a constructive outlet for that anger and not let it eat you up inside. :) and of course you can have a yummylicious sherbet :chef:
Yeah, I'm reading my report and quite frankly I am seeing anger mentioned a lot that I didn't know was coming out.

So, I'm now wondering about that stuff too.

it has been my experience that most anger is futile and most targets of anger do not deserve the attention paid to them. most folks that used to torque me off, I have found, are just upright furless walking dogs. a reasonable person would not get angry at a barking dog, but they might plug their ears.
What's coming out is buried anger I don't even realize that is coming out.

There are things like being abandoned on a highway by your mother (biological mother, MOM is golden) because you couldn't take being beaten all the time by your stepfather. And, then didn't even call my father for two days to check on me.

Stepfather who beat and abused me in severe ways.

All sorts of stuff. The anger that is coming out, that I am not aware of, may just be part of the blindness I am dealing with as well.

There are things in the report that I can see. Some of it is like reading about another person because of the things I was not aware I was projecting or even doing. Even when I am actively, consciously suppressing, it is still coming out and I am not aware of it.


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25 Apr 2016, 4:19 pm

I can't remember what it is called but that reminds me of the disorder where one is not aware of one's emotions.



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25 Apr 2016, 4:28 pm

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I can't remember what it is called but that reminds me of the disorder where one is not aware of one's emotions.
There is not a lot that I recognize in many places. But I would not be surprised at this time. I am reading this and just sorta stunned with some of the things I didn't know. Now, here is the strange part.

They may be trained, but they are picking up on these things with minimal interfacing. I went for Asperger's evaluation so there is not much else covered other than the glaring obvious. General Social Anxiety...

But, I wonder if something like PTSD will be tacked on when they get through the piles of crap.

Sexual abuse since 3.
Severe physcial abuse for almost 11 years, up into my teen years.
Neglect

So, when people tell me that women are natural mothers and men are not, well, all of that crap happened directly through or because of my mother.

My father was standard by the times. Strict and disciplined with a standard amount of corporal punishment for the times. My Mom is the only reason I'm halfway sane.

So, I got both extremes.....

But here is what is funny...it only took my mother a short time (based on life lived)to make things bad for me, and my Mom has been still working with me for the length of my life.


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25 Apr 2016, 4:31 pm

seems in this hellworld, the negatives always have way more power than the positives and it only takes a bit of negative to ruin the long and sustained work of the positive.



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25 Apr 2016, 4:38 pm

auntblabby wrote:
seems in this hellworld, the negatives always have way more power than the positives and it only takes a bit of negative to ruin the long and sustained work of the positive.

It is the real life corollary of "You can have 1,000 attaboys and all it takes is one 'awshit' to wipe it out."


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25 Apr 2016, 4:44 pm

that is why the eastern religions [hindu and such] call this a "hellworld."



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25 Apr 2016, 11:24 pm

This is for Aunt Blabby. I hope you like it. I truly love this genre of music. I remember seeing all of these on the drive-in screens for the first time they came out. The way they all used the vocals as an instrument really speaks to me. All those spaghetti westerns were and still are so much fun. So grand.

I was watching TV and the 'Modelo Beer' commercial came on and I thought Auntblabby. :) had to get up and get it posted.

Now, back to my regularly scheduled viewing :)


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25 Apr 2016, 11:48 pm

thank you for that :flower: I must find out who that female vocalist was.



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25 Apr 2016, 11:56 pm

Not too sure what to put really, after thinking about it, i think when i was younger <13 i used to get angry alot only because of peoples treatment, then i remember one day in class before the teacher came in i was standing at a desk talking to someone and someone decided to kick me in the ass, it was at that moment i thought not to react for the first time, and carried on talking and the kicking got harder, but still didnt react, in the end he just got soo frustrated with not getting a reaction he actually looked a bit of an idiot infront of the class.. So from that day on, i either dont react and internalize those feelings to the best of my ability or avoid any confrontation at all!... As i got a little older this seemed to work quit well, but then the downside was that people would then try to wind you up and get a rise from you because they have not seen you react in an angry manner and will keep doing so untill they get what they want, when i confront them about this they say that it isnt normal not to, not react and they were only doing it because they wanted to see me react.. If anything i got angry because of how stupid and illogical it was for someone to do that!... These days the anger seems to have turned more to a sadness and confusion mixed with frustration... but when on the very few odd occasions i have got angry ( once in years recently) is was only because i was dealing with someone that wouldnt give me my space and constantly pestered me till i ran out of all options and blew my top at him, but inside it wasnt so much anger as it was i tried all approaches to tell him to give me space and he wouldnt, so shouted as another way to get my point across... So no, i dont get angry much at all, but i think i have converted that to sadness, frustration and confusion!... Anyone else deal with it this way? or feel that way?... :?



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26 Apr 2016, 12:00 am

Uncle wrote:
Not too sure what to put really, after thinking about it, i think when i was younger <13 i used to get angry alot only because of peoples treatment, then i remember one day in class before the teacher came in i was standing at a desk talking to someone and someone decided to kick me in the ass, it was at that moment i thought not to react for the first time, and carried on talking and the kicking got harder, but still didnt react, in the end he just got soo frustrated with not getting a reaction he actually looked a bit of an idiot infront of the class.. So from that day on, i either dont react and internalize those feelings to the best of my ability or avoid any confrontation at all!... As i got a little older this seemed to work quit well, but then the downside was that people would then try to wind you up and get a rise from you because they have not seen you react in an angry manner and will keep doing so untill they get what they want, when i confront them about this they say that it isnt normal not to, not react and they were only doing it because they wanted to see me react.. If anything i got angry because of how stupid and illogical it was for someone to do that!... These days the anger seems to have turned more to a sadness and confusion mixed with frustration... but when on the very few odd occasions i have got angry ( once in years recently) is was only because i was dealing with someone that wouldnt give me my space and constantly pestered me till i ran out of all options and blew my top at him, but inside it wasnt so much anger as it was i tried all approaches to tell him to give me space and he wouldnt, so shouted as another way to get my point across... So no, i dont get angry much at all, but i think i have converted that to sadness, frustration and confusion!... Anyone else deal with it this way? or feel that way?... :?

I wish you had jammed chalk up his nose and rammed the eraser up his wahoo! :x



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26 Apr 2016, 12:01 am

auntblabby wrote:
thank you for that :flower: I must find out who that female vocalist was.
I am so glad you enjoyed it. :) I have valued your words, temperament and philosophy.


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