I'm an Angry Person

I read an interesting book lately - Facing the Fire: Experiencing and Expressing Anger Appropriately by John Lee. Although I can't say that I necessarily agree with everything he says, the main point I do agree with - we have to learn to deal with our anger appropriately. What this means is that we need to be able to recognize when our anger is a result of something that just happened (that person who cut us off in traffic) or whether it is indeed one of those deeply rooted cumulative chunks coming to the surface. Basically, if the level of anger doesn't seem to match the seriousness of the infraction, it's probably not the incident that's the problem - the incident is only the trigger. And the author also says that there is a difference between what's appropriate and what is acceptable, as society dictates. The one thing he stresses is that we should not try to supress our anger as it will just keep building up and eventually will erupt, but we need to address it when it happens. Yes, it's nice to know the whys, of course, but that should not be our sole focus - at least according to him. I'm still processing it all...

You'd be at the bottom of my Christmas list and at the top of my Hit List.

Some serious anti-depressants should be discussed here. No one should have to be in that much pain all the time . . . and you shouldn't be allowed to handle sharp objects until you do.