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never.never.land
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Registered: 05/11/08
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I have very little anger management :(
#8397289 - 05/13/08 03:26 PM (6 months, 19 days ago) |
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Everyday I tell myself, "today, I am NOT going to get angry at anything." And yet everyday I find my blood boiling.I am known to break things, even when I realize it costs ME money to replace, I'm constantly fighting with people and later questioning who was right.
Even when I'm successful in controlling my anger I'm only "containing it" to be blown at somebody else at a latter day.
Something that may seem arbitrary to most will make me hold a grudge for days, or even weeks.
Either way I've realized I cannot do this by myself, and there is no chance I can afford "professional" help, nor would I want to go for help if I could.
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WhiskeyClone
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Registered: 06/25/01
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This book changed that part of me forever:

Any other advice I'd have for you can be found in that book.
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"My children," said an old man to his boys scared by a figure in the dark entry, "my children, you will never see any thing worse than yourselves." As in dreams, so in the scarcely less fluid events of the world, every man sees himself as colossal, without knowing that it is himself. The good, compared to the evil which he sees, is as his own good to his own evil.
~ R.W. Emerson, "Spiritual Laws"
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Veritas


Registered: 04/15/05
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Loc: PNW
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Re: I have very little anger management :( [Re: WhiskeyClone]
#8397346 - 05/13/08 03:41 PM (6 months, 19 days ago) |
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Great book! I would also recommend Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy. I struggled with my "Irish" temper for decades before I discovered that I was creating my own anger through my irrational beliefs. Here's a link to the basics:REBT
-------------------- No man is free who is not master of himself.
~Epictetus.
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