Sorry to hear of all you have been through recently. I hope things are improving for you now. I had to laugh though at what you wrote, having just walked in the door from my session with t and she said the same stuff- keep a diary of each incident so that we can look at it and see what is happening at the time. She feels that a lot of it is probably 'unresolved anger issues', which coincide with the work we are doing on my past relationship and the abuses issues within it. I know that the level of anger is unjustified, but through keeping the diary and trying a couple of strategies which I already do, but putting them together, I hope that things will get better as quickly as poss. (The 2 strategies I am going to try together is walking away, then if I am still in a heightened state of anger changing the physical environment ie going out for a walk or a drive; sending the girls outside to play, changing what activity they are doing at the time...). I also think that by acknowledging it out loud is going to lessen my responses a little- that seems to work for me with other things anyway!!
Thanks for the advice too, Michah- but if I can avoid returning to the need for meds I will!!!!!!