BirdInFlight wrote:
I'm starting to feel that under certain circumstances they can actually get harder to avoid or manage as you get older, such as when under increasing stress as middle age and older age progresses, menopause adding to a woman's stress load of challenges, life crises, and later life burnout.
Not saying everyone will experience that, because not everyone will. But personally I'm finding it to be so.
This is also true. Even though I'll never be menopausal (thank god) the fact that "real" difficulties are constantly present makes the "lesser" things that would typically trigger an outburst seem less severe. So I'm better able to keep it together when facing a long wall of brake lights because I got so much other stuff to worry about it sort of shorts out the energy I would even have for an outburst.
Like someone else said too, I've found my outbursts have sort of morphed into more frequent depressive episodes. Which, for me, is a more desirable negativity. I'd rather be depressed than flip out and break things or potentially hurt myself.