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To the point, then. I'm starting to think that these incidences could explain the anxiety I have either when I need to confront someone or when I've made a mistake. I work in a high-stress environment (casino) where I regularly have to deal with angry drunks and vast sums of money. As you can imagine, freezing up is a terrible response when an angry drunk is screaming obscenities at you and your fellow co-workers and there's $10K at stake.
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That is a challenge in that you are dealing with strangers that are drunk and some people can be mean drunks too. And often in a casino you are dealing with individuals that are addicted to gambling too. Both those habits/addictions consume a person where nothing else matters to them. People have gambled to the point of losing their homes, everything and suddenly their families are subjected to facing how they are homeless and deep in debt. The worst that can happen is a big win too because that just rewards the addiction keeping the person involved with something that becomes their world and life. Casinos don't care about any of that, this is how they make money and typically lots of it as the odds are in their favor, much of what you have been learning already. The house doesn't care about the people, just keeping the games going and the money flowing and getting the ten grand that's at stake and then there is the high rollers that gamble away incredible sums like it's nothing to them.
Rage tends to be about "control" and how someone can blow up when they feel they are losing control.