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Rage is a response shared by all mammals to a perceived threat to our survival – it’s fight or flight.
A recent link on PC about the importance of social relationships in the hunter-gatherer stage of our development helped me to understand rage as a response to a perceived threat to our esteem and/or value in a social (especially family) group. Centuries ago, we needed our families in order to survive.
It would be great if we never felt pushed into a corner psychologically, and great if we didn’t have injuries to our sense of self, deriving from our childhoods and parents who probably had problems themselves. Viewing that situation as having a “nut loose” is . . . well, I don’t think I like the guy either.
My suggestion – don’t beat yourself up about the outburst. It might mean that some stuff deeper than what you dealt with earlier is now closer to the surface. Like you said, a reason now to go see the T again. Good luck.
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