There are two separate issues here -- a place to "rant," and a place to learn anger management techniques. Learning to deal with your own anger, like learning how to deal with your own panic, anxiety, depression, communication issues, etc. is considered a self-help technique and is covered by our Self Help forum, hosted by Dr. Clay. It is a great place to go and post your own efforts at learning anger management techniques, ask for others' techniques, and offer one another support in learning to better manage your anger.

Why don't we separate out "anger" for special self-help attention? Well, as you pointed out, in order to get help for anger, it's really best if there was something more than just expressing it. Anger management techniques work to help a person not just alternative ways of expressing their anger, but also channeling it into more constructive energies. And learning how to identify anger triggers ahead of time and plan accordingly. All of which is best done with people who know anger management techniques and can help one another. I feel, for now, that "Self Help" is the best place for it, and also because I haven't had a huge outcry (before this post) for an anger forum. This could easily change in the future.

As for a place to "rant," we do allow people to do so in the community, we just don't have a specific forum to do that in. I'm not sure what the purpose of such a forum would be, other than to keep all the "ranting" together, but the point of that would be...? Not sure, I don't see it, so we would encourage people to continue to use whatever forum they feel is appropriate to post their rant (e.g., if it's related to their depression, then the depression forum; if it's related to their meds, the meds forum; etc. etc.).

Thanks for the feedback,
DocJohn