Exploring Anger

And it is just making me feel extremely vulnerable thinking about telling T any of this stuff. I have multiple lists of reasons I am so angry...it is mostly a lot of little things. How pathetic?!

Not pathetic at all! My T says anger is empowering.

Bring your lists and share them. I bet you have a right to be angry a lot of time! It means you think highly enough of yourself to demand better from the world!

Only problem is I dont stand up for myself...I suppress my anger...bury it.

I feel scared and vulnerable telling my T stuff all the time. It's brutal.

When you suppress anger it becomes depression. It's never buried. You need to address the anger one way or another, it will not go away.

The s**t just wont stop coming!!! Make it stop!!!

Exercise is good for anger. More so cardio exercise like running.

I jog when I can, some times I run as far and as long as I can until I have to stop. It works but is always not available. I also write too. Write down how you feel or what you want to say to who ever for whatever, let it all out.

I've been writing on and off all day about all the reasons I am angry...maybe I just need to let it keep coming so I can get it all down on paper and talk about it with T?

I think it's awesome that you write it down!

I was on an airplane one time and stewing about an organization that I belonged to. I was so angry about many things. So I decided to write a list of everything I was angry about. I figured I'd fill the page.

I listed 11 things on the first page. And kept going. And going. In the end, I listed 76 things that made me angry about this organization! Cathartic plane ride!

Good luck with your T. It's so hard to express anger in therapy. Especially if anger wasn't allowed in our childhood homes.

Sounds like you've got that journaling thing mastered, M! You're a quick study, it appears.

Keep venting and writing and by all means share it with your T.

Just putting this old thread back on top.

There are multiple helpful articles on this site about anger:
Feeling Split about Anger | Discussing Dissociation

I'm struggling with anger issues so much lately and it's tying in with my ED. Never really thought it did until I started talking about it and realized that I see things in "black and white" and where that anger goes all the way back to childhood.

As PeeJaY said.... it's hard to express it in therapy.