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Originally Posted by Wolfgang34
Simply enough today and that sent me down a spiral of anger and irritation. Things that don't piss me off or irritates me a little is angering me a lot lately. Usually this goes away in a couple of hours, maybe a day or two later at the most extreme, but this is just one of many periods like this has happened. Usually over something minor: tripping over the curb, bumping into something, etc. Then I just unintentionally ruminate on angry and painful experiences in the past.
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I agree with CopperStar, I think there is something larger that you are not dealing with and the small annoyances set you off because you're already on edge. Ruminating on negative past experiences is going to do nothing but make you more upset. If you have processed those experiences and know what you can do to prevent them in the future, then there's no reason to dwell on them. Is it one particular experience or one particular person that the anger and pain is related to? This could be what you are not dealing with that stays bottled up and comes out when small things irritate you. If you work through the feelings, that should help.
Usually anger is related to situations that are unfair to us somehow. Something that has happened that should not. We have to express the anger but sometimes we can't express it to whomever has wronged us, so we have to get it out in other ways. I like physical outlets for anger - running, working out, playing a sport, etc because for me anger causes a lot of physical/body sensations like tension, shaking, the desire to throw things. Journaling might also work well, if you're not really sure what the basis for the deeper anger is.