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I'm generally a nice person. Friendly, welcoming, nice, forgiving, generous. I try to be nice, and I think people see me as nice.
But recently I seem to be getting a little angry. Not major big angry, just smaller things.
I sometimes punch the cushions on the sofa so hard that I can feel the sofa on the other side. I rip pages in magazines on purpose.
When someone comes up to me at work for advice on their social lives, I used to always give them the right advice hoping that they mend their lives.
I still give good advice, but no longer to intend to help them, now I'm starting to think that I give good advice just so they sort their life out and don't talk to me again for a while.
Anyone else ever had this? Any cure for it?
But recently I seem to be getting a little angry. Not major big angry, just smaller things.
I sometimes punch the cushions on the sofa so hard that I can feel the sofa on the other side. I rip pages in magazines on purpose.
When someone comes up to me at work for advice on their social lives, I used to always give them the right advice hoping that they mend their lives.
I still give good advice, but no longer to intend to help them, now I'm starting to think that I give good advice just so they sort their life out and don't talk to me again for a while.
Anyone else ever had this? Any cure for it?
I find a lot of my anger comes from an inability on my part to accept blame for something going wrong. I might be walking around my house and stub my toe on the vacuum cleaner, on the ironing board - normal people might yelp and hobble away, but not me, my opinion on the matter is that THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE DESERVES TO DIE for what has just taken place, starting with this ironing board which gets a few wallops. Of course I put the ironing board there, but it was still -fate- that made me stub my toe on it, and it's for this that fate needs punishing. I've built up a mentality where bad things are the fault of other people or fate, with me taking very little of the blame in my head. This rocketh the self confidence, but it makes me very angry sometimes.
The key is to only vent that anger towards inanimate objects. The moment you start hitting other people or making yourself look like a pratt in public is the moment it's gone too far. I can live with kicking a hole in my bathroom wall (who the £$!# decided that making walls out of cardboard was a good idea?!) or smashing any mobile phone within a year of having it, I allow myself to break my keyboard over my own head if I don't understand how to set Linux up, but if I hit my girlfriend or anyone else I will have to change.
As a side note: Punchbags are cool, but my best mate got a drumkit for pretty much the same purpose, which is even cooler \o/
The key is to only vent that anger towards inanimate objects. The moment you start hitting other people or making yourself look like a pratt in public is the moment it's gone too far. I can live with kicking a hole in my bathroom wall (who the £$!# decided that making walls out of cardboard was a good idea?!) or smashing any mobile phone within a year of having it, I allow myself to break my keyboard over my own head if I don't understand how to set Linux up, but if I hit my girlfriend or anyone else I will have to change.
As a side note: Punchbags are cool, but my best mate got a drumkit for pretty much the same purpose, which is even cooler \o/
That's exactly how I feel.
I want to break something - anything. Like properly destroy it. But I can't find anything suitable for my aggression. My car is too un-insured, my Girlfriend is too female and stuff like my TV and Computer I need for work and leisure.
Maybe the cat could 'fall' under the lawnmower and accidentally get set on fire and lose a leg.
It'll teach him not to whizz in the clean washing AND vent my anger - killing two birds... :-D
I want to break something - anything. Like properly destroy it. But I can't find anything suitable for my aggression. My car is too un-insured, my Girlfriend is too female and stuff like my TV and Computer I need for work and leisure.
Maybe the cat could 'fall' under the lawnmower and accidentally get set on fire and lose a leg.
It'll teach him not to whizz in the clean washing AND vent my anger - killing two birds... :-D
I especially want to physically break things when I get angry, especially crappy digital cameras that don't work even after you've got a replacement THE SAME DAY. And I also hate posting on here when I really should be out doing something much better with someone cool, but can't.
*smashes random bedroom objects*
*smashes random bedroom objects*
Exactly, you need to take the negative and turn it into positive. I do a lot of weightlifting whilst angry, and you sure do lift some heavy weights when you're mad.
Same here.
I am normaly quite nice, friendly, happy chappy, try to see bright side of things. Then it goes. I just (like the other day) get incredibly enraged, usualy triggered by something stupid. I don't know. I just get infuriated at the world.
But I don't normaly take my anger out on things. I take it out on ideas.
I am normaly quite nice, friendly, happy chappy, try to see bright side of things. Then it goes. I just (like the other day) get incredibly enraged, usualy triggered by something stupid. I don't know. I just get infuriated at the world.
But I don't normaly take my anger out on things. I take it out on ideas.
I know what you mean. It depends on my mood. Sometimes, when somebody asks for my help and/or advice, I'll be only too happy to try and help them. Other times, I'll just flat out say "No" or "I don't know", or try and help, but whilst thinking about how they need to sort it out on their own, and not just use me. I'm like that with my best friends every so often, sometimes when I'm in a bad mood, the last thing I want is somebody telling me their story and expecting me to help them, when it seems all I do is listen to their problems.
No cure that I know of, as it seems random with me. As for hitting stuff - get a punch bag. You can take out your rage AND get fit at the same time. I sometimes get in from work and/or college in a foul mood because "things aren't going my way" and a good bout with the bag is great therapy.
No cure that I know of, as it seems random with me. As for hitting stuff - get a punch bag. You can take out your rage AND get fit at the same time. I sometimes get in from work and/or college in a foul mood because "things aren't going my way" and a good bout with the bag is great therapy.
I'm generally a nice person. Friendly, welcoming, nice, forgiving, generous. I try to be nice, and I think people see me as nice.
But recently I seem to be getting a little angry. Not major big angry, just smaller things.
I sometimes punch the cushions on the sofa so hard that I can feel the sofa on the other side. I rip pages in magazines on purpose.
When someone comes up to me at work for advice on their social lives, I used to always give them the right advice hoping that they mend their lives.
I still give good advice, but no longer to intend to help them, now I'm starting to think that I give good advice just so they sort their life out and don't talk to me again for a while.
Anyone else ever had this? Any cure for it?
But recently I seem to be getting a little angry. Not major big angry, just smaller things.
I sometimes punch the cushions on the sofa so hard that I can feel the sofa on the other side. I rip pages in magazines on purpose.
When someone comes up to me at work for advice on their social lives, I used to always give them the right advice hoping that they mend their lives.
I still give good advice, but no longer to intend to help them, now I'm starting to think that I give good advice just so they sort their life out and don't talk to me again for a while.
Anyone else ever had this? Any cure for it?