Anger Issues

ieuan22 said:

sometimes it feels like my emotions go from 0 to 100 in seconds, and it’s so hard to calm myself down once I’m upset.

Yep, I get that. It's rarely something I can label anger, though. Mostly it seems to be anxiety over something that's hit me out of the blue. Once I'm in that state, it's hard to get back to normal, especially if the cause remains unresolved.

Exactly, it is really annoying. 

I get that sort of thing and call it rage, I thought it was a post menopausal thing, where I've just got less tolerant of intolerance as I've got older. 

Plus I think other people have got more entitled and stupid over the last 10 years or so.

I work in retail, so I get asked a lot of dumb questions on a daily basis. It’s not the best place for me to work because of my own struggles, but at the end of the day, it’s a job. But yeah, I totally get what you’re saying. Most of the time, when I’m in the car with someone and something happens, like someone not indicating or overtaking at high speeds, I’ll immediately think, “What an idiot,” even though I’m not even the one driving. 

Today I could barely get into the local car park because of the number of cars double parked, some waiting for other people to leave, only people couldn't leave because others were in the way.

I don't have road rage, but I do get road irritation.

I think a lot of my anger comes, like you say from people asking stupid questions, but also people being unable to answer a question, not because its a bad question or an unreasonable one, but because it has to be prefaced with a load of waffle and sales talk and if I ask the questions again, because I've had a totally different question to the one I asked answered, thats me being aggressive apparently, I really don't understand it.

 Now this is truly stupid; a guy my son used to work with genuinely thought that Rome was an invention of Hollywood and that all authors, games creators etc had gone along with it, as well as the heritage places. So the Roman baths in Bath are an invention and I've no idea what he thought the City of Rome is or was in Italy, maybe h thought the Italian government were in on too?

Today I could barely get into the local car park because of the number of cars double parked, some waiting for other people to leave, only people couldn't leave because others were in the way.

I don't have road rage, but I do get road irritation.

I think a lot of my anger comes, like you say from people asking stupid questions, but also people being unable to answer a question, not because its a bad question or an unreasonable one, but because it has to be prefaced with a load of waffle and sales talk and if I ask the questions again, because I've had a totally different question to the one I asked answered, thats me being aggressive apparently, I really don't understand it.

 Now this is truly stupid; a guy my son used to work with genuinely thought that Rome was an invention of Hollywood and that all authors, games creators etc had gone along with it, as well as the heritage places. So the Roman baths in Bath are an invention and I've no idea what he thought the City of Rome is or was in Italy, maybe h thought the Italian government were in on too?

I work in retail, so I get asked a lot of dumb questions on a daily basis. It’s not the best place for me to work because of my own struggles, but at the end of the day, it’s a job. But yeah, I totally get what you’re saying. Most of the time, when I’m in the car with someone and something happens, like someone not indicating or overtaking at high speeds, I’ll immediately think, “What an idiot,” even though I’m not even the one driving.