Anger management

Getting into a rage when annoyance or anger would be quite sufficient, ruins too much. Anger is so brief, so I won’t put up with the long term consequenses of my own bad temper. So I read ‘Anger management for dummies’ (that’s me) and it was quite…illuminating?
So now I embark on a course to set that straight. I’ll start with counting my blessing, re-thinking my general envy and … a nice cup of coffee, I think.

So I went to the “assessment” meeting today (got back not too long ago). It went quickly. Lots of personal questions I hated answering (like, how was your home life growing up, and how was your relationship with your stepdad and sh*t like that). All for the greater good of the goal, right?

Anyhoo, so good news is Oct 1 is the first session. Group stuff and relaxing techniques and whatnot. Ought to be interesting. Also, this Wednesday is my greivance meeting at work, so…. Well, anyway….

Okay, so in keeping with this goal (primary objective: save my job, secondary objective: overcome my anger), I called and set up an appointment with the lady who runs the anger management counciling.
She seems really nice and talks like she deals with overly angry people alot. WHich is sort of her job descripption, I guess….
Anyway, I have an assessment meeting set up with her for Monday at 7:30 p.m. If all goes well, I’ll be able to take a 6 week course for only $60! I’m really looking forward to this.

As an aside, I’ve noticed alot of people have this as one of their goals, yet outside of mentioning how angry they get, I haven’t found anybody who’s doing something about it. Anyone want to share?

Managing my anger/temper has been a goal of mine for a while. It’s been a problem since I was in the second grade (for perfectly good reasons at the time) and it’s a problem I’ve largely ignored since then.
Recently, I was fired from my job because I overreacted. It’s one thing to get angry at someone, it’s another to blurt out profanity. It’s another thing altogether to blurt out a threat, even if you don’t mean it. The incident during which this occurred is utterly silly, and if I had the chance to go back and do it over, I’d keep my mouth shut. There’s times to get mad and times to simply let them go. More often than not it’s the latter.
At any rate, I have a (slim) chance to get my job back, and even if not, I need to crack down and do this. I think it’s safe to say that my temper has been holding me back for quite some time, and if I hope to succeed in my life I’ve got to get it under control.
Any thoughts on this? Any similar experiences? I’ll keep you posted.

im implosive. i took an online test to see if i have an implosive anger. and realized i do.

i want to know how to manage my anger. sometimes when i think ive had enough already i explode. and i have a line that shouldn’t be cross. i dont get angry easily or so fast, i get angry as time pass by especially if i have been stepped on a couple of times…i want to know how to express my self how to say what i feel at the moment than to keep it to myself until i tictac and explode.

Anger-free: Ten Basic Steps to Managing Your Anger, by W. Doyle Gentry, Ph.D. (Quill, 2000). ISBN: 0688175872
Provides ten easy steps on how to deal with toxic anger that can destroy your job, relationships, and health. Offers a simple mind/body approach to eliminating anger.

Anger Kills: Seventeen Strategies for Controlling the Hostility That Can Harm Your Health, by Redford B. Williams, M.D. and Virginia Williams. (Harper Mass Market Paperbacks, 1998). ISBN: 0061097535
Offers strategies to reduce destructive emotions and behavior, and presents research results in the field of anger management. Provides readers with innovative anger-control techniques, combining meditation, exercise, logic, and humor.

i can

But sometimes people drive me nuts. I am the one trying to keep other people calm, but sometimes they just stress me out. I hold it together pretty well, but how do I just find that zen place in my head?