Angry or Upset

[Msterbeau]

Obviously it depends on what I'm upset about. Anywhere from a couple hours to a couple days. Unless it's the loss of the most significant partner you've had in the 40+ years you've been alive... and then it's more like a couple years.

[Homicidalheathen]

about the same on that, depending...

i talked to my mother in law who is as perfect as a human can be and its the same for her so i guess that means your pretty normal and good natured, scary...isn't it?

[Miranda]

That would really depend on what happened and where I was in my life. Some things that have happened to me will never go away emotionally. Through treatment you get different looks on the situation but in the end , you end up with the same situation. I think it's all about how long you want to let yourself dwell or hurt about something. I think a human being is entitled to the time they need to heal over a hurt. But by the same token, it can go o n forever unfortunately, if the trauma suffered was bad enough.

[torn asunder]

general life issues!? a good night's sleep, at most.

relationships? i've no idea - based on my last several relationships, the pain's not subsided, so i guess i'd have to say, never...

[StormKnight (1)]

I used to have an evil temper. People who know me now look at me strangely when I state that. There are a few times I will get angry, as stated in other posts.

As for getting over the anger, it does depend. When I am in a clinical environment, ranting and raging does nothing immediately but waste time in crisis situations. Time that is better spent resolving the crisis. So I will get initially outraged, and then breathe it out until the crisis is solved. *Then* see what caused the crisis to begin with. It took a lot of force of training and sheer willpower at times, but it can happen.

Some of it spilled over into my personal life, and keeps me from having crises go out of hand. However, some things, like a family death, loss of someone you love, tends to take me a while to get over. The darkness from my father's passing, for example, took what seemed like forever to get over. Now, I just remember him on the day he died.

[jynxxxedangel]

It depends on the situation. If someone just pisses me off in a minor way, then my anger is instantaneous and short-lived. If someone has physically injured, tore down, stolen from, or humiliated me or a loved one, then it NEVER goes away (and they had best always be looking behind themselves from that day forward).

[Guest Megalicious]

It depends on the situation. If someone just pisses me off in a minor way, then my anger is instantaneous and short-lived. If someone has physically injured, tore down, stolen from, or humiliated me or a loved one, then it NEVER goes away (and they had best always be looking behind themselves from that day forward).

Pretty much what she said.

I Don't forgive easily, and I don't EVER forget.

[Rev.Reverence]

...sometimes...the wounds will simply not heal...

[bean]

I Don't forgive easily, and I don't EVER forget.

I'm the same way.

It depends on the situation, and who upset/angered me.

The problem is that I have a bit of a temper, and I hang on to my anger for way too long - especially when certain people are the cause of it.

[Hellion]

It depends on the nature of the offense,over the past couple of years I have mellowed out alot,it does take alot to piss me off,and it usually has to be something major.lack of sleep does not help at all.

[lapin]

well depends, for relationship. it doesn't heal. I'll get through it with a good night sleep. but once in a while, I'll think about it and cry.

other small life issues, I'll get over it after dealing with it.

if ntg helps....

zzz

lols

zzz is good for everything, kinda refresh me, so i wake up with zero emotions when i wake up.

X3

[Msterbeau]

well depends, for relationship. it doesn't heal. I'll get through it with a good night sleep. but once in a while, I'll think about it and cry.

other small life issues, I'll get over it after dealing with it.

if ntg helps....

zzz

lols

zzz is good for everything, kinda refresh me, so i wake up with zero emotions when i wake up.

X3

A good point about sleep.

I try to remember a trick I learned. HALT. Hungry Angry Lonely Tired. If I'm one of these things, I try not to make important decisions or get involved in serious conversation. I wait.. I rest. I eat.

[Gauge]

most things roll off my back. it takes a lot to get me angry and usually if im to that point i explode and im over it. relationships have never been able to upset me to much . . . till now anyway