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(JD) · Oct 23, 2008, 05:19 PM

You have several good tips posted for you here already.
How about I take a different tack? You say you have no one to talk with, so I guess that means no therapist either.

Try and work slowly on what is causing the anger. Removing the day to day anger is a good thing, though we all need anger to motivate us for those special situations, imo.
Often anger is created when we feel we don't deserve something we have, or aren't receiving what we think we do deserve. Not a good place to be. Sometimes we create anger when we try to control something that is out of our control. Denial that it is out of our control keeps us attacking it, and creating the anger from the frustration of poor results (in our opinion..regarding the issue.)

Being able to, as many use the Serenity Prayer to do, step back and see just where we are spinning our wheels, and wasting our energies so we can make a better plan for our lives, is a good thing.

Since you posted in the PTSD forum, you probably have anger about what gave you this disorder in the first place. Remember that this disorder can control you in an out of control manner.

The more out of control and frustrated you become, the worse you become, feeding the disorder.

Breathe. Live in the here and now. Take responsibility only for what you have responsibility for: right this moment. Don't dwell on the big picture. It's too big a chunk of picture to handle with PTSD. Small bits, chewed slowly, will eventually get the whole cake eaten.