Posted by fallsfall on August 28, 2004, at 7:44:44
In reply to discovering anger and hostility for the first time, posted by alexandra_k on August 27, 2004, at 20:41:52
I typically stuff my anger, too. (Except my 16 year old daughter gets to see my anger fairly regularly...)
Recently, I was angry at my therapist - so angry that I called it "rage" - and it scared me to death. I quickly changed to focus of my rage from him to me, and wound up in a deep, deep depression.
I know that I need to accept that I can be angry, and that being angry doesn't make me a bad person. I'm not looking forward to seeing rage again, though - I have no idea how to deal with it. My therapist once said that he thought it would be "therapeutic" for me to get angry at him. So I know that it is *acceptable* to be angry. But that is as far as I have gotten.
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