Speaking for myself, Angie, before I went through intensive therapy about 15 yrs ago, I had a whole bunch of repressed anger about what had happend to me when I was little. I didn't remember it and I sure didn't know I had all that anger waiting to boil over. But I do know that my anger was my motivation to do a lot of things.

The bad thing about it was that so many, many things made me angry and I didn't know why. When my daughter started walking and getting into things, I realized that I was smacking her had or her diaper way too much. When I stopped to think, I knew that what she had done wasn't an offense that needed a spank or even a reprimand in a loud voice. I learned to control myself, but I still reacted to other people out of anger when it wasn't called for.

IMO, many of us walk around with a kettle full of boiling anger and we don't really know why... or we try to "play nice" and never express that anger so when we spot an opportunity to release some of that anger, we go off like skyrockets!

There's lots of ways to release anger and most of them aren't healthy. I'm not going to get into it because I'll get ahead of Sky and I don't want to step on her toes. I'll wait until she gets into that part of it.