I know that anger is something that we all deal with when we first quit smoking, but I've been doing this thing for 21 1/2 months now and I'm still angrier. I was NEVER an angry person before. I was always the last person to get angry and the first one to forgive. I'm still the first one to forgive, but I'm also the first one to lose it.
Now, I know that I wrote the post [url=http://www.stopsmokingcenter.net/support/viewmessages.aspx?topic=32265&forum=1]blaming the quit[/url] and can NOT blame my actions on my quit... they are MY issues that may have originally been caused by quitting, but I absolutely can NOT blame my quit for my anger. I know that. But it's still something that I feel like I have to deal with, but I don't know how! I've never been an angry person before! So how does somebody who has never had to learn to deal with anger suddenly do this at 30 years of age?
I had 2 events today that really brought this to my attention. At work this afternoon, I had a complete and total meltdown and then tonight, this guy at the library told me that he checked a book out at 9pm on 2 hour reserve... he said he REMEMBERED checking it out and even knew the time! Well, it turned out that it was there the whole time, he just couldn't find it... and I lost it! I went off on him (in a library nonetheless that's supposed to be a QUIET place!!! LOL) Now granted, I'd had a REALLY bad day anyway and then I'd been lied to by him and I waited in the library for TWO HOURS waiting for this book to be turned back in. I think I had a right to be angry, but I don't think I had the right to act the way I did. Nobody looked stupid but me.
I have several stories similar to the one above that have happened in the last 21 months. Too many! I need to do something about this! I can't go around biting people's heads off everytime they piss me off! I know the whole "count to 10" thing, but seriously! After 10 seconds, I STILL would have bit his head off! I want to bite it off now again! I'm still angry about it! So I don't know what to do. I can't get mad like this. I need to return to the person who was last to get angry and first to forgive. Where is she?????
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Pam
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