Don't know if I'm angry

It sounds ridiculous, but I don't know how to recognize anger. Am I angry? Am I just frustrated and disappointed? Am I all of the above? If I can't figure out what I'm feeling, how do I deal with it?

Anyone have any methods, tips, tricks for identifying emotions?

anger is a secondary emotion- you may be feeling angry, but there is always anothere motion underneath. what was the situation, if I may ask?

Hello,
we are suffering from anesthesia.
will you help me out.

I think I'm mad at my manager and his ability to make any situation more toxic than it already is. I've been trying to get him to work with me for months now but it seems he has no interest. I don't know what to do, or what I'm doing wrong. I'm frustrated that help isn't forthcoming. You would think a hospital would be a good place for understanding. I'm also scared that I could lose my job. . . .not in the near future, but eventually.

It's like I can't sort out my feelings. I am I mad, or just frustrated and disappointed.

It sounds liek your real feelings are fear and frustration. You are afaid to lose your job, and your manager seems to be a source of stress. You hav all this energy that is bouncing around inside and that is making your irritable. Can you talk to your manager about it? If not, is there any way you could talk to anyone (friend, therapist, etc) where you can vent out your feelings and get back constructive suggestions?

Yup, there's a lot going on right now. I tend to hyper-focus on one thing. "if I can fix 'x' then everything else will fall into place" I know it doesn't work that way.

I'm trying to figure out how to work around my manager. He tends to get defensive, shut down, and stop listening when he hears things he doesn't like. He also thinks he knows everything about my job. I'm an x-ray tech. . . . he has never taken an x-ray in his life. He has never worked in a hospital where everything is unpredictable either.

He told one of our sonographers that if he told her to do take x-rays then she should do it and she'd be covered. In my province, that contravenes at least one if not two laws. Punishable by a several thousand dollar fine. Yeah, he knows everything!

I come from a very quiet family where no one showed they were mad. Don't get me wrong, I love my family and they are very supportive. But no one ever expressed anger. Disappointment, sadness, frustration. . . but not anger. I feel like I shouldn't get angry, that it's a failure or an immature reaction. But then I can't seem to uncover the other feelings because I'm caught up feeling guilty/confused about being angry.

Around an around it goes.

I have great friends when it comes to support and my therapist is good, but I have a very hard time expressing my thoughts. I get distracted and go off on tangents so when the 45 minute hour is up I realize I haven't dealt with the issue I intended.

I am finding writing and sending it out to the world is helping. Journalling didn't help because no one read it. So it stayed in my head and cluttered things up. This way, I don't always know if someone will read it, but it's possible.