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Old Aug 03, 2011, 10:27 PM
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Originally Posted by childofyen View Post
I've been through this before. Ten years ago with my last T when I was much less stable than I am now. I took her advice and went on the anti-depressants, which made me manic so I took mood stabilizers, which made me psychotic so I took meds for that too...
If you are open to taking meds, it might be worth revisiting this with a pdoc. More is known now than 10 yrs ago about different meds and how they act, and new meds have been developed too. I understand, though, about not wanting to take meds. I am not too keen on them either--meds of any type, not just psych meds. But if you don't want to take meds based on what happened 10 yrs ago, it might be worth a discussion w/pdoc.

My former husband was quite an angry guy and he went on an anti-depressant and it helped his anger a lot. For him, it turned out his anger was a symptom of his depression.

There are definitely other ways to work on anger without taking a medication. This stood out to me in what you wrote: "I guess I don't know how to say I am angry, how to feel angry, without behaving angry." Those are skills that can be taught. Your T can teach you how to express your anger without acting out. Have you told him you would like to learn this?

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Originally Posted by childofyen
I guess under the anger I'm confused and sad and very scared that I'm hopeless.
That is helpful to know the emotions under your anger. I hope you can share with your T.
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