and I don't know where its coming from. The sadness disappeared and has been replaced with anger. I wake up angry, sometimes I can distract myself from it, but it comes back to it in the end...
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Re: so much anger...
Fri, June 20, 2008 - 4:28 AMWell, if the theory is correct, they say that depression is anger turned inward (toward yourself). I think it's good to feel your anger, but it's important to channel it - you spoke of bike riding in your other post - I think that's an awesome way to discharge your anger. Apparently physical stuff does it best.
Sometimes it feels like every inch of my body is filled with unfocused anger - I feel enraged but I don't have a specific focus for it. Weird, eh? I mean, I could go all Freudian and go back to my childhood and pick from a variety of things (or my present!) to be pissed about, but this is a different thing - kind of free floating.
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Re: so much anger...
Fri, June 20, 2008 - 2:34 PM> and I don't know where its coming from.
Maybe you tried to login to tribe?
Sorry, I've been on a kick.
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Re: so much anger...
Sat, June 21, 2008 - 2:17 PMI can kind of relate to what you're saying, Dawn. Sometime I let little things irritate me. Then I get angry with myself for letting myself be so easily annoyed by little, unimportant things that seem so not worth being bothered by. I'm trying to learn to chill out and let stuff roll off my back more.
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Re: so much anger...
Sun, June 22, 2008 - 11:59 AMIs there a specific source or focus of your anger? Maybe trying to find out why you feel anger, will help (of course that is IF it has a focus or source.)
If not your best bet is to try and find something that brings you pleasure or joy and trying to do that task/hobby/whatever.. -
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Re: so much anger...
Sun, June 22, 2008 - 3:43 PMI can usually really do well when the world AROUND me is falling apart - I'm great in a crisis (as long as it isn't mine!). It's the little things that can drive you nuts - and does.
St. Francis de Sales (one of my favorite saints) said that it's helpful to know how to fight off big wolves, but that flies come around a lot more often! -
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Tue, June 24, 2008 - 10:02 AMIt's the little things that can drive you nuts - and does. <-Yeah, what Darla said.
Sometimes I find myself letting things bother me that are inane and just plain not worth my energy. I think this is due in large part to me feeling less than awesome about myself. I hate to say it because it seems like self sabotage but sometimes I think I subconsciously seek out things that will aggravate me and make me go from ok to bitchy in .5 seconds. -
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Re: so much anger...
Sat, June 28, 2008 - 8:29 PMyah, my mood swings have been elevated and I find it disturbing and hard to forgive myself for. Like I am "crazy" for bringing up what I think at all anymore, because its all so emotionally loaded.
Sure, I can bring up things in the past, the present that are angering me, but my family is not going anywhere soon.....
I feel for my boyfriend these days. I feel like he gets the brunt of it.
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Re: so much anger...
Sun, June 29, 2008 - 3:44 PMRight there with ya, Dawn. Lately, I get angry that I get so easily annoyed. I can't pinpoint a source. I feel like I just have to get through. At least we have each other and in that we have the comfort of other people who go through the same things we go through. That helps.
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Re: so much anger...
Mon, June 23, 2008 - 3:24 PMI don't know what to do about it either, but if you find out let me know.
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Re: so much anger...
Thu, July 3, 2008 - 1:10 PMInteresting.
These days I am finding myself more irritable and angrier than I can ever remember. (Then again, I'm traveling in India and that can definitely be aggrivating!)
I, too, get down on myself for getting so angry over so little. But then I think of how much better it is to feel anger as a gut emotion instead of sadness or dread. To me, to be able to get angry, express my anger and own my bitchiness feels like progress. It's not the end goal, but I do believe it's a step forward rather than the step back.
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