I dont know why i feel so much
Lately, I’ve been dealing with this intense, almost uncontrollable anger that I can’t always explain. It's nothing new but its more like it resurfaced. ive always had trouble with my anger and just emotions in general, but when i moved away from my childhood home for hs i got better. now im back and its like slowly all the work ive put into myself was being undone. i cant remember much about my childhood, especially middle school and i dont know why. i hate the person im becoming and i want to stop feeling this way but i dont know how
@gentleTree1518 hello Tree, and thank you for sharing this. Navigating intense emotions, particularly anger, can be very challenging - the sheer strength and physicality of our response can feel overwhelmimg. I don't feel however that you're undoing the progress you've made, insofar as you're able to recognise that your anger is affecting you, and you're looking for means to address it. I've linked below to two resources that I feel would help - one is the 7cups self help guide to managing emotions; the other is the DBT growth path. Both include strategies for defusing difficult feelings and reducing our vulnerability to them:
https://www.7cups.com/help-managing-emotions/
https://www.7cups.com/path/playlist/dbt-under-construction-copy/
thank you, i really appreciate it
@gentleTree1518 you're very welcome, Tree. It's just occurred to me that the Mindfulness chat group that meets on here might also be very helpful, as learning mindfulness skills goes a long way towards accepting and dispersing feelings of anger.
@gentleTree1518 Sending lots of love to you! ❤️
@gentleTree1518 show yourself compassion for your lapses ... and then renew your commitment for the change you want to work on.. if it got better before, it can happen again. Keep trying.
@gentleTree1518 Listen, I want you to know that it's completely okay to feel the way you do. Emotions, especially some variations of anger, can be profoundly complex and hard to understand, sometimes they resurface when we find ourselves in similar environments or even situations. I wonder if moving back to your childhood home brought up a ton of feelings you might've once believed were behind you.