Since therapy hasn't been working for me (ever, like, in years) I decided to buy myself a few self help books. That was years ago. But recent events in my life have made me revisit some of these books. I figured I would read a few pages, and then write here to express how they made me feel, or vent.
The first part of the book asks about how you saw anger when you were younger. It was weird for me to realize that even though both of my parents often expressed anger to me and in front of me, they expressed it in opposite ways. One was explosive, the other held it all in. Now that I'm an adult, I find myself doing both of these things when I am angry. Mostly, I hold it in until it boils over and then I explode, usually in a very unhealthy way. I don't want to blame them for my anger, yet it makes me angry that I am this confused about anger. I hope that working in this book helps me understand things much better.
