Coping with Rage

For my entire life, I've been dealing with this feeling that I can only describe as rage. I don't know why I feel this way, and nothing I've tried doing helps with it. I've tried therapy, talking it out, getting away from the immediate source, everything. I've even done the whole screaming into a pillow thing, but nothing seems to help. Talking about it and/or getting away from the outside stimulus only helps for so long; even when I've forgotten what made me angry in the first place, that angry hateful rage is still there, waiting for the next thing to come along and break me down again.

I don't know what else to do. It feels like it's always there, waiting. I'm so tired of being angry, when I don't even know why I am, half the time.

has anybody talked to you about anger being a secondary emotion- meaning you have a primary emotion first...like frustration, lonliness, jealousy, sadness...and you dont know how to cope with that emotion so you respond with anger instead? so anger really isnt an emotion, it is a response to an emotion you are feeling. so when you get angry, try and identify what primary emotion it is you were feeling that triggered the anger response and find a way to cope with it and the angry feelings should go away.

Try to remember there will be no quick fix to this. If in Therapy, stay with it. It will take much time.

Hi DreamAddiction,

A lot of people don't know this, but being angry all the time can happen because of depression. Have a look at this and see if it rings true for you

http://forums.psychcentral.com/depre...n-escaped.html

If so, there's a promising way to try to escape in the first few posts and a general plan in post #105.

- vital