Originally Posted by
dollydo For many years in my 20's, I was an angry person. I would lash out when I felt threatened or used. I was making myself miserable and was sick and tired of wasting all my energy on a counterproductive emotion.
I also went through this, and although I outwardly tried not to show my anger, by about my late twenties I found a group of people (also alcoholics) who were all about being angry, and I finally started allowing myself to "be angry". I was overcompensating for all of the repressed anger I had, and I'm still struggling with this today. I have absolutely no idea how to express anger, or to deal with triggers that evoke anger for me, in a neutral way.
At this point in my life, I only know how to either sit and fume, festering on how insulted or slighted I feel about people, places, and things, or to outright be rude to people.
It's a process, I know, and I'm catching myself more even as the days pass...