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I have realized that since I found my voice and have been starting to use it I really am finding myself struggling with expressing my healthy anger and some of it is coming out in passive aggresive ways which is very unhealthy.
I know that many here were abused as children by very angry and abusive, rageful parents. I understand because that is my background too. I was never allowed to say the word no or I do not want to or express my healthy anger in any way at all by my very abusive, rageful parents growing up.
Has anyone here been working on expressing healthy anger in therapy and do you wish to share what that process has been like for you?
Or have you never dealt with your anger issues in therapy? Because I just realized that I have been in therapy for nine years and never ever worked on learning how to express my anger. I have just been not dealing with it for most of my life and yet there have been occasions in my childhood and teen years and adulthood where I felt incredible anger and expressed it in unhealthy ways being more frustrated than anything else. It does not happen very much anymore in my life because pretty much I have pretty safe people as friends and acquaintences.
But in talking with another friend who also has PTSD it was mentioned that they have the same struggle too.
I understand that it is a symptom of having PTSD that we all have times of being overreactive with our anger.
I want to learn as much as I can about expressing anger and maybe if you felt as if you could share an experience of it in your life, it would really help me to begin to come to terms with my own.
I am in therapy and the next appointment I am finally going to address dealing with my own unexpressed anger. But I wanted to understand what I am unaware of and really want to deal with this in my own life.
We all share the symptoms of being over reactive in our anger. It is one big complicated mess.
How would you like other people around you to better understand your own over reactiveness? How would you like a supporter to deal with expressing your anger? I hope that these questions help to gain some clarity. Thank you.
I have realized that since I found my voice and have been starting to use it I really am finding myself struggling with expressing my healthy anger and some of it is coming out in passive aggresive ways which is very unhealthy.
I know that many here were abused as children by very angry and abusive, rageful parents. I understand because that is my background too. I was never allowed to say the word no or I do not want to or express my healthy anger in any way at all by my very abusive, rageful parents growing up.
Has anyone here been working on expressing healthy anger in therapy and do you wish to share what that process has been like for you?
Or have you never dealt with your anger issues in therapy? Because I just realized that I have been in therapy for nine years and never ever worked on learning how to express my anger. I have just been not dealing with it for most of my life and yet there have been occasions in my childhood and teen years and adulthood where I felt incredible anger and expressed it in unhealthy ways being more frustrated than anything else. It does not happen very much anymore in my life because pretty much I have pretty safe people as friends and acquaintences.
But in talking with another friend who also has PTSD it was mentioned that they have the same struggle too.
I understand that it is a symptom of having PTSD that we all have times of being overreactive with our anger.
I want to learn as much as I can about expressing anger and maybe if you felt as if you could share an experience of it in your life, it would really help me to begin to come to terms with my own.
I am in therapy and the next appointment I am finally going to address dealing with my own unexpressed anger. But I wanted to understand what I am unaware of and really want to deal with this in my own life.
We all share the symptoms of being over reactive in our anger. It is one big complicated mess.
How would you like other people around you to better understand your own over reactiveness? How would you like a supporter to deal with expressing your anger? I hope that these questions help to gain some clarity. Thank you.