I've suffered terrible rages since childhood.

I personally doubt it has anything to do with (my) bipolar.

I too started scaring my child (and mother and brother too) what with breaking and throwing shyt... Thank God I've never got in trouble with the law, because legally I should have been in jail a few times.

My daughter expressing her fear of my anger made me want to change it desperately... DBT has been very helpful at managing and channeling rage of this magnitude. Emotional regulation is the module that helped, it allowed me to create windows between thought, feeling and reaction.

Self awareness is another biggy, if I feel it bubbling under the surface like a warm under current, I either address it, ir try and exorcise it. Swimming, punching bag, metal music and most vital, a timeout (yes I put myself into the naughty corner so I don't inadvertently bite someone) are things I do to calm down.

If none of those are options at the time, I take a good ole vitamin A.

Ativan.

But haven't had to resort to that in ages.

If you can learn how to catch it, and process it, there's way less chance of an explosion.

Also, the only thing I asked of my loved ones is to say a safe word in the event my self awareness is failing me.

So if someone says "peaches", I need to reflect. In timeout. Hehehe