What Made You Angry Today?

[Nighthawk]

My bloody mother

 

[Britt.f7]

This was yesterday. We were driving in the car, my eldest son, my husband, and myself, when I started talking about wanting to replace the patio cushions. It was our anniversary and we just got some money from my father in law. When my son goes into that we don't ever need them and that it is a waste of money, etc, etc. It got my blood boiling. I told him it was none of his business what we do with our money. He seems to think that parents have to pay for a child's expenses even though he is 19. I almost started swearing I was so mad at the things he was saying. When we got home, my husband said we would do our additional errands just the two of us since my son was such a downer. Happy anniversary to me. :confused::mad:

 

[Marie E.]

@ f*cking memory triggers!!

 

[deer_in_headlights]

I got lasered in the eyes for the second time, in two days, by a careless store check-out person. Full blast in the eyes by their handheld scanner. My vision in my left eye is messed up, and my eye hurts.

I politely tried to talk to customer service about this, but could tell my complaint wasn't going to be passed on to management. She didn't care. I was hurt by someone, and finally having the courage to speak up - a person in authority didn't care - typical!

I've been struggling with flashbacks / anger for several days, but I normally can't verbalize it. My drive home from the store was vastly different from my normal polite, safety-oriented and gracious behavior. I was literally screaming at other drivers, and at the radio. (Fortunately, no one could hear me.)

When I got home, I called the store, and asked to talk with the manager. I was very polite. He was great, genuine and instantly promised that he would re-train everyone on scanner safety. Apparently, they already have employee training for this, but perhaps it hasn't been reviewed recently.

That helped, and yet the anger is still so very high. I feel an un-typical need to be very physically destructive - yet have so many inhibitions about acting out in anger that I'm overwhelmed, frightened and caught in a whirlpool of emotions and self-destructive feelings. I feel like I'm going to have a heart-attack or stroke if I don't do something constructive with this anger.

 

[intothelight]

Resolved that nothing is going to MAKE me angry and my response is my choice. Going to "fight" the fight response and gain ownership over my responses.

 

[ms spock]

I am angry because that is how my body stores and manages the charge of energy - it is like I have energy and presume I am angry, and it might not be the case as I don't have normal responses since so much developmental stuff was mess up for me because of all the abuse and traumas.

 

[Recovery4Me]

I am angry, but I re-grounded through meditation and a bowl of double fudge brownie chocolate icecream.

 

[Lionheart]

I am angry about all the unfairness in life, but I am still determined to make the best of things and trudge on, however slowly that may be. I only wish I hadn't been taught as a child that life was fair, unfortunately a lot of times it just isn't.

 

[Ronin]

The boyfriend having a 'what angered you today' story of some folk in his line of fire. That's just enraging not even facepalm worthy. (They're alright, he's alright, their children are alright, just eff the situation and that kind of thinking.)

 

[Britt.f7]

That I got us in another financial mess because of my spending. I'm so mad at me.

 

[Ronin]

A coupla things and then that a friend is going in the totally opposite direction than I need be going (that one is mostly a fun-mad. But far East, seriously? I thought the agreement was we travel together and more in the reaching distance of one another.

I'd be sooner doing Japan than where she's heading. So anger that's distracting instead of all the other it is. This dearheart is someone I can't be really mad at, except when she does things harming her.

D'oh, I'm again doing aloud lengthy monologs instead of dialogs.)

 

[Anrish]

Someone parking his car on my parking space and nowhere to be found. The street here is really small and tight and I pay for this place and you can also see that it's private....