Angry

[icemink]

So when you're sad all the time it's called depression. What do you call it when you're angry all the time? That's sort of how I feel right now. Actually it's how I've felt since Tuesday. At first I thought it was just an unusually strong case of PMS, but it won't go away, and all the other uncomfortable symptoms are gone. I think maybe it's LA. Now that I've made up my mind to leave, I just want to be gone. I wish I could just get in my car and drive off today. I think I'm going to go back to doing extra work until I do leave here. I don't really have to like people to do that, and the food is good.

Comments

[lynnenne]

There are several conditions in which chronic rage can be a symptom, but I wouldn't worry about it just yet. "Chronic" means at least 2 consecutive weeks. So I'd give it another week. If it hasn't improved by then, I'd advise seeing a doctor.

Good luck! Feel better soon.

[icemink.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. I don't really think I'm at a need to see the doctor point yet. I think more than anything else, I just need to get away from LA. I really did love it here for a while, but now. . . I don't know, it's just kind of annoys me.

[pfeifferpack.livejournal.com]

Ya know...sometimes being angry is just the correct emotional response to things happening (just like depression). Obviously there is SOME issue eating at you ({{{{{{{{hugs}}}}}}}) but that doesn't mean you have no reason for the anger.

I've been terribly depressed but when the doctor wanted to know if I wanted meds for it I pointed out I've had a REASON to be depressed thank you very much and I would come out of it in good time.

If you don't "come out of it in good time" then worry...otherwise just don't let it make you sick, hon.

Kathleen
I used to kick an old sofa when pissed beyond the telling...it helped channel it a bit and take the edge off.

[icemink.livejournal.com]

Ya know...sometimes being angry is just the correct emotional response to things happening (just like depression).

You're right. I think it throws me off because for a long time I would repress my feelings, and just soldier on through life pretending that nothing affected me. I haven't done that for several years now, which is good, but it leaves me far more at the mercy of my emotional moods.

And I don't think I'm going to worry unless it keeps going past when I've moved back to Colorado, because I think a lot of it has to do with how dissatisfied I've become with my life in LA. It's just that it's happened so quickly because I used to be very happy here.

[pfeifferpack.livejournal.com]

Yup, RL can be a right bitch.

I have anger issues too...I was raised in a household where that was one emotion that my mother could not tolerate. Daddy would only express anger while in the basement workshop (and mom would spaz then even though it was nothing more than Navy days cursing when machinery didn't cooperate). I get physically ill when dealing with anger and nearly always swallow it down making myself ill. On rare occassions (usually on behalf of someone else) I'll let loose. I've a razor sharp tongue it seems, filled to the brim with vinegar and sarcasm, truly deadly tongue. Then the guilt comes and back to the repressed sick feelings. Basically I'm not doing myself any favors by not just accepting that anger is essential and proper and can be expressed when felt. I can mentally give myself the same advice I gave you (that it is the correct response), but actually DOING it.....

In short (yeah, too late I know).....just feel baby, feel and know you have the right to feel whatever you do without explanations or apologies.

Kathleen
{{{hugs}}} hoping the move will being great things your way. Sometimes our plans and dreams can be hard to give up or forgive for not being what we wanted.