What Do You Do With Anger?

[Pacific_Loner]

This thread makes me realize I don't remember the last time I've felt anger O.O

 

[Beatrice]

I will tell you what worked for me, maybe it will help you to. What I definitely learned to do was hold my tongue! Learning to be in control of my mouth was the first step, but it leaves you with pent up frustration. To remedy this frustration I would often take a little time to myself to often write down what I feel and why I feel this way. Later discussing it with the person I got angry with. After a while it became less a process and more a matter of instinctively cutting off the anger from being destructive. You'll still have your lapses, but when that becomes the exception rather than the rule, it is not as big a problem as it once was.

Yes, this sounds very helpful. I think I sort of do something similar. Sometimes anyway. At least, I'm definitely more in control of what I say to people. Remaining calm, too....

Thanks.

 

[mikebird]

I listen to really loud drum & bass electronica. Ideally at a free party organised for a weekend in a forest, on a beach or in a deserted warehouse, with people bringing several soundsytems of at least 15kilowatts each, with generators in a remote location, or connected to pylons somewhere in the countryside, or to the 3-phase supply in a production factory, once re-established...

Otherwise, at my gym, more than twice a week - running, rowing or stepping to get warmed up, and then bigger lifts, abs & pull-ups. But better would be squash. But even better, the ultimate way to vent my frustration would be whacking a big, hanging punchbag, never stopping, until i hit the floor, exhausted, and falling asleep

 

[SavannahRose]

I don't know about this one- but I definetly feel ur pain. I got so enraged today i stamped my foot so hard on the hard linoleum floor, forgetting my i was wearing sandals with bare feet inside. i got a sharp pain and have badly bruised the sole of my foot. served me rightt? I am just so pent up inside, verging on anger and desperation.