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How Are You Feeling Right Now?
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I've been quite productive for the last hour. This is what annoys me, I can barely move, can't function and sleep has gone all to hell so I miss out on a lot of potential work and feel awful for 2 days, completely non functional. Then I'll nod off on the sofa for 5 minutes and suddenly I've got this burst of energy and feel great and am wondering if I'll be able to sleep if I go to bed at 10pm as planned and wondered whatever has been wrong with me🤔 Anyway, I have banned any sneaky looks at work until tomorrow, am going to catch up with the nonsense on Survivor and then hopefully go and get some proper zzzzzzs. Or on this evidence, maybe I just need to do 5 minutes on the sofa once in a while? 😂
So is this your way of saying you want to torture yourself forever? Because the only person this anger is hurting is you. Anger is an acid that does more damage to the container it's stored in than anything it's poured out onto.
Anger is highly stigmatized. It is socially unacceptable to be angry. Because to be angry in the sheepl's mind means to be crazy and dangerous. That's just the tip of the iceberg. You see, anger is the emotion most closely related to justice and injustice. Only strong people can feel constructive anger that they know how to use to their advantage. Anger can also bring out the best in a person. How do you feel when you find out that some children brutally tortured an animal or for some other terrible crime? If you have a good and right heart, you will feel tremendous anger and desire to make the perpetrators pay for the crime they have committed. The proper response to violence and injustice is not sadness, which is very socially acceptable, but anger that moves you.
I have actually dealt with a huge amount of anger over injustice, but stewing in anger does NOTHING to fight injustice. It's fine to be angry at something but you then need to process the anger and move on, either to take action over things you can change, or accept that you can't change something and focus on what you actually have control over. You don't have to of course - but that's the mentally healthy route.
Very sad tonight. Missing my Dad. Going back to work tomorrow is making the grief harder to manage. The last week feels a bit like an extended blur, the days just merged into each other. No idea what happened or when, for much of the week, accept for that key time on 21st November @20.39 when he died. I will never forget that moment, that second when he finally crossed over.
I agree @Lady Wolfshead, holding onto anger and letting it fester is like swallowing poison and expecting someone else to die.
Certainly anger can be channeled constructively, i.e., ending apartheid, the civil rights movement, but that's a completely different animal from unfocused, self-destructive rage.
Certainly anger can be channeled constructively, i.e., ending apartheid, the civil rights movement, but that's a completely different animal from unfocused, self-destructive rage.
