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[Bean]

Nope, I'm not in a bad mood! (for once )

I'm just wondering how people deal with anger...


I mean, serious, full-on rage!!

I've got a Uni project revolving around the 7 Deadly Sins and for one of my pieces, I'm using Wrath as a starting point. But I think 'wrath' on its own is quite superficial.. I want to see the emotion behind the anger...

Ok, I'm waffling...



What methods do people use to calm themselves down, if they're seriously worked up?

[Major Burkenshaw]

I know it sounds silly, but I mentally compress all negative faults into a ball then force it away. If it works, I normally feel apathetic to the cause of the anger

[frankiebateman]

woosa ! lol the way i deal with anger is put music on, relax and then thats it

Edit : or sleep

Edited by frankiebateman, 30 November 2007 - 01:21 AM.

[Ethel]

I think it's best to dwell on it for a few daysbefore locking it away in a lil corner of your head...

then one day buy a shotgun

[Major Burkenshaw]

Lol maybe i'm just weird

[Bean]

I've never been one to lash out physically.

I'll go absolutely nuts in my head though, and I do have a tendency to have a good old fashioned rant. But it's just verbal.

But even when I'm verbal, I never swear. No matter how worked up I've ever been, I've never actually sworn!



But with this project, I sort of want to explore the physical reaction to wrath/anger/rage! Which is hard for me, as I've never really had that sort of mentality/reaction.

[Major Burkenshaw]

I work with a bloke who is ex-army, he loses his rag alot and always takes it out on anything close to hand like torches, tools etc. lol

I'm same as you Bean, never physical outbursts, although I do swear a little bit

[Purple Tom]

Thats a good question Bean!

I would have to say though that it depends on what the anger is in relation to.

For example, if I am angry with a person or something that someone has done then I tend to be the sort of person to go and talk to the person about it after a while, I never get physically angry about it.

If its anger at something or even at myself, then very occasionally I will let it get the better of me and thwow it roughwy to the gwound (hehe) or generally punch myself in the side of the head so it hurts a little bit.

That actually probably makes me sound like a complete nutter - so please be aware I've only punched myself a few times in my life! It just seems to help a little bit, and clears my head so I can carry on.

When I was younger, and something wasn't going right, then I'd often throw it against a wall, but I soon learned that generally doing that causes more damage than whatever was wrong with it in the first place!

Hope that helps a bit

Tom

[Bean]

Hmm, I've just realised that this could be an incredibly personal question! These won't actually be used in my project, I promise... I'm just trying to establish different points of view and reactions.

But I do appreciate the honesty of people, thank you!


Tom, you don't sound like a nutter!

[Major Burkenshaw]

You could just Wiki Wrath and cut and paste the results

[timmy]

lock it up...... get hammered.... beat the cr@p out of my bed/door lol

[Major Burkenshaw]

lock it up...... get hammered.... beat the cr@p out of my bed/door lol

What happens if its your bed/door thats caused you to get angry. I spy a paradox

[Bean]

bumpety bump, please

[Holly]

the only person in the world that makes me sooooooooooooooo angry is Toby

I tend to start shouting and being a women i bring up every single annoyance i have had in the last month as well as what has made me angry in the first place.

Then i usually burst into tears and the cuddle

No i do not need couseling!

[The Matt]

I bottle it up and then, I bottle it up some more, then, a little more bottling up.........

AND THEN I GO F***ING MAD!!!!!!

When I'm angry at work (which has been most of the time of late) I go and punch seven shades out of things!

Sometimes though, I do really stupid things. I mean, once I got angry that I found a load more rust in my old mini, so I took a hammer to it, all of it!

Ooooh ooooh, I've thrown things about before too. Never people, I've never really got violent that much.

I think I've only ever lost my rag with someone once, and it hurt them so I always try and avoid getting violent like that now.

But yeah, I bottle it up waaaaaay too much!