Holding Back Anger.

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A lot of therapists have recommended hitting things that can take it. At an office, you won't do any damage by throwing a paper ball no matter how hard you try. At home, hitting a pillow with a tennis racket or stick is a popular recommendation. I once set up a big truck inner tube full of water to whack on. Things like splitting wood can be a good combination, but only safe if you are past the blind rage.

One happy combination I found was chasing down drivers who had violated traffic rules around my bicycle. I'd catch them at a stop light, and harangue them with a top-volume description of how nasty it is to pick a mangled bicyclist out of a wheelwell, how much damage a bike can do to the car underneath, and so on, until the light was about to change, when I'd finish up with "And that's not to mention the PAPERWORK!"

i usually punch holes in wall, although i try not too (i hate plastering/repainting over them).

I get angry pretty easily. I never saw the point of bottling things up since it doesn't help me at all and it's only for the convenience of others. Why should I suffer so people can have a false sense of security?

I am very quick to anger. I bottle it up inside until I feel like I'm going to explode, and then something minor will trigger a meltdown, which sometimes results in violence. I don't know how to cope with anger. I think I need to channel it into something more positive and less destructive.

It's not in my best interests to get angry all the time. I sometimes lose it though. The last time I was on my own. I prefer it to be when I'm on my own.

Right before I got the job in a resteraunt I got a job doing retail work. It lasted five days because there was this little prick assistant manager who went to high school with me who would make ret*d noises everytime I asked a question because I was in special education classes. On my fifth day he thought it would be funny to smack me in the back of the head when I was doing inventory so I turned around and chased him into the boss's office as he slamed the door shut in front of me I ran into it shoulder first. The wall and the door made a crackling sound. I went back to doing inventory and over the loud speaker I hear my named called and was told to call line 20 and when I called 20 the idiot who hit me tells me to go get maintance guy he is locked in and the door will not open. When I stopped laughing I got the maintance guy who could not get the door open for at least an hour. While trapped in the room the assistant manager urinated in the boss's waist basket. Long story short he was fired for hitting me infront of other employees and I was fired for breaking the door.