what do you do to calm your anger?

[blueapplesoda]

^
besides anger management
besides beating the life out of the shithead who pissed you off

being fucking angry sucks and you can't get shit done. how do you guys deal with this bullshit?

and this isnt no fuckin emo discussion and tommorow morning i will probably feel stupid for posting this

fuck it answer the damned question

[Mtriple]

fluoxetine?

[Justin B]

Punch or kick something soft. Dont do what I did and be a dumbass.

I know the feeling. It fucking sucks. Dont feel stupid about posting the thread either, I think the same things too. Believe me, when I get pissed off, sometimes I do some really fucked up stupid shit. Nothing like when I was a kid, but still. About this time in DECEMBER, I was ranting about something then thought for just long enough to do it, that it would be a good idea to kick some goddamn big ass tool chest/filing cabinet sort of thing. It didn't budge aside from leaving the tiniest little dent, while my whole body moved back from the shock and my foot just started to BURN. Like it was in a fire, no less. I swear I must have broken something, or done some sort of serious ligament/cartilage/nerve damage (no idea) to the pad of my right foot on the inside right behind my big toe. I finally got into the doc's several weeks after it happened when it was still bothering me, and if I put pressure on it like getting up on my toes, my foot would like *POP* right at my big toe and I feel like I'd fall half an inch. Anyway, long story short, I got mad and my damn foot is still fucked up 6 months later. Don't be stupid like me. Thanks. Oh, and if anybody has any idea what the hell I did to myself, lemme know lol. The doc thinks its just soft tissue damage or w/e, like an every day bruise, yah okay. Its STILL super tender to the touch and weight on it, cant run or jog comfortably, no xray abnormalities, but most definitely a direct big toe shot, my whole foot folded to the outside when it hit. Owwieee thinking about it.

FWIW - I work with a shit head, I know how it goes. He doesn't know what the fuck, and hes getting paid like 2.50 more than me. I get heated every time I think of that shit, especially now that I have a potentially permanent reminder of his dumb ass.

I guess that really isn't any answer, but whatever.
Just from one little rage, its soooooooooooo not worth it. Figure something out. Have a beer, that is unless you got drunk and mad lol :)

[SA E30]

I used to be really hot headed not even 2yr's ago... I still can get freaking agro.

I used to punch things etc... an example, my sister was annoying me the one day, and I just lost it, and punched the wall next to her head, broke a bone in my hand (ok she hasnt ever tried to piss me off again... but thats not the point) .

Now days I just breath a bit before reacting, and it normally gives me the time to process my thoughts. So as not to do anything rash.

[92 mtechnic cabrio]

I just let it go. I don't know how, I just get over even the biggest things.

[schmidty]

I just let it go. I don't know how, I just get over even the biggest things.

that's the best thing... let go and forgive. I still get really frustrated and mad about some things too though. Just try and remove yourself from the situation. Do something else to occupy your mind.

[JPL]

Punch or kick something soft.

my neighbors kid

[Jscotty]

The main thing is to be slow to anger in the first place. Secondly get to the root of why you are angry. Do you get angry because of what someone personally did to you or are you really angry with yourself over your own shortcomings. Ask yourself if you are/were entitled to have a situation a particular way or if it was really beyond your control. Also, you have to consider whether or not the person who made you angry had ill intentions and purposely offended you or if they unknowingly did something that you did not like.

I think that sometimes people also use their anger as a weapon thinking that it affects the person that they are angry with. Or they may remain angry with a particular situation thinking that somehow their anger will change it.

Its also a matter of patience. One thing that I notice quite often on this forum is how when a newbie asks a stupid question or someone brings up a viewpoint that someone else does not like or agree with they tend to respond in an angry and abusive manner. I am not suggesting that the folks on this site have issues with anger management, however, it is very indicitave of people in general.

[JGood]

Yeah, anger is a bitch. I don't get pissed about huge, major problems, but I snap over little things. If I'm already kind of stressed, and some stupid shit happens, I just loose it. Shit always snowballs and by the end I pick up the snowball and throw it at somebody's fucking face.

This morning on my way to work after being cut off by a soccer mom driving a Hummer (I'm not even going to address that issue), my tape player stopped working and started clicking and destroyed my tape (I just picked up this car, the tape player came with it and I haven't put a new CD player in yet). No antenna, so I'm sitting there in silence, my tape is dangling out of my tape player by the actual fucking tape shit which is tangled in the player, and I'm being run over by a soccer mom in a Hummer. I knew it was a soccer mom because IT HAD A FUCKING SOCCER MAGNET ON IT. THE FUCKING KID CAN'T EVEN GET IN YOUR OVER SIZED POS YOU DUMB waffleswaffleswaffleswaffles. I lost it and started punching my tape player. My whole dash was bouncing around, lights were flickering on and off, fucking children were screaming.

I'm fine now though. Really, I am.

I have no solution to your problem.

[blunttech]

Wtf? I Have Only 2 Emotions. Anger And Rage And Now You Want Me To Get Rid Of One Of Them?? Fuck That

[Jscotty]

No antenna, so I'm sitting there in silence, my tape is dangling out of my tape player by the actual fucking tape shit which is tangled in the player, and I'm being run over by a soccer mom in a Hummer. I knew it was a soccer mom because IT HAD A FUCKING SOCCER MAGNET ON IT. THE FUCKING KID CAN'T EVEN GET IN YOUR OVER SIZED POS YOU DUMB waffleswaffleswaffleswaffles.

Ok. So you were really angry because you saw some pampered housewife with 2.5 kids driving a hummer and completely oblivious to the harsh cruel world that we live in and because she has not a care in this world as she acts like a princess sitting there in the driver's seat behind the wheel in a vehicle that has more capabilities than she is remotely aware of, thus, wasting the usefulness of an $80,000 truck to take her bratty kids to soccer practice.

[HST]

I like to take a spirited drive. Seriously it helps me out.

[trent]

I like to take a spirited drive. Seriously it helps me out.

i do this as well, so many nice roads in socal

[PiercedE30]

Yeah, anger is a bitch. I don't get pissed about huge, major problems, but I snap over little things. If I'm already kind of stressed, and some stupid shit happens, I just loose it. Shit always snowballs and by the end I pick up the snowball and throw it at somebody's fucking face.

This morning on my way to work after being cut off by a soccer mom driving a Hummer (I'm not even going to address that issue), my tape player stopped working and started clicking and destroyed my tape (I just picked up this car, the tape player came with it and I haven't put a new CD player in yet). No antenna, so I'm sitting there in silence, my tape is dangling out of my tape player by the actual fucking tape shit which is tangled in the player, and I'm being run over by a soccer mom in a Hummer. I knew it was a soccer mom because IT HAD A FUCKING SOCCER MAGNET ON IT. THE FUCKING KID CAN'T EVEN GET IN YOUR OVER SIZED POS YOU DUMB waffleswaffleswaffleswaffles. I lost it and started punching my tape player. My whole dash was bouncing around, lights were flickering on and off, fucking children were screaming.

I'm fine now though. Really, I am.

I have no solution to your problem.

I'm sorry dude, but I just picture somebody (as I drive by them) yelling at their dash with their first just wailing on a dash. Sometimes you just have to look at the funny side also.

[Jon325i]

I just let it go. I don't know how, I just get over even the biggest things.

Bingo....getting all worked up just isn't worth it. As I once told a co-worker having a bad day, "all excrement rolls downhill."

Jon