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- Subject: Re: ANGER!!!!!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.161940.17118@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 16:19:40 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.181707.22193@athena.cs.uga.edu>, heath@athena.cs.uga.edu (Terrance Heath) writes:
- >
- Terry: I know you are going to gag when you read this...PRAY for her and for
- an improvement in your relationship with her, as well as your other co-workers
- and then turn it over to your higher power.
-
- I too have a problem with anger...the above was suggested to me and even though
- someitmes the only thing I could pray for was that the @#$% @# &* @##$% (you
- get the picture?) would get what he/she/they deserved...things did improve
- slowly. At least I saw the humor in the situation, which kept me from
- murdering the ungrateful so and so's. Remember that the only person you can
- change is yourself.
-
- I know with me my anger comes out sideways. Even though I think I as
- concealing my contempt/dislike/distrust it shows in my actions and is picked up
- by others. Maybe you need to do an iventory on your attitude? Good luck.
- Silvia W.
-
- > Forgive me guys & gals, but I gotta vent for a second or two.
- >I'm 4 months sober and still not quite used to dealing with everyday
- >emotions this way. The main one I'm having trouble with is anger.
- > Anger, for me, can be focused on an individual or the whole of
- >society, burns intensely, and can spring up at moments notice. I used
- >to spend all my time being angry, so I'm still quite good at it.
- >However, anger is something I used to drink over, as a means of
- >helping to calm it fires. Now I'm dealing with it sober, and I'm not
- >sure I'm dealing with it well. I know I can't afford to get angry, or
- >at least to let myself stay angry, even if I'm right. (Hell,
- >especially if I'm right!). But I don't know what in the hell to do
- >about it. I'd like for it to go away, to be able to send it somewhere
- >else, but no one has been able to give me any magic words or any
- >sure-fire methods of doing this (I know, I know. "Don't drink and go
- >to meetings. And call your sponsor." But I need something to do in the
- >moment as well, when anger strikes, and I don't have anywhere to go or
- >anyone to call. That's how bad that particular emotion is with me.)
- > Today, it was an inividual. One of my supervisors at work,
- >with whom I've had a personality difference from day-one. We just
- >don't get along. However, most of the time I try to stay out of her
- >way and just do what she tells me to do. But when I feels she's lit
- >into me unfairly, I speak up about it. (I've always been like that,
- >and I don't see it changing anytime soon.) I stand up for myself when
- >I need to, but I try to do it in a polite way. I think she's looking
- >for a way to get rid of me (I'm already on probation for some errors
- >I've made, but yesterday my REAL boss - the one who has the final say
- >- told me that I have been improving.) So today, while I'm doing my
- >job (stamping books) she comes up to me and says "There's no need to
- >be so loud, Terrance. I know what you're doing." And walked off.
- > At first I said "Excuse me. What's wrong?", but she waved me
- >off. Later, I asked her a second time "Was I doing something wrong?"
- >and she waved me off again. Finally, before I left, I cornered her
- >in her office and asked "Was I doing something wrong out there?",
- >looking her straight in the eye. She finally said "No, you weren't
- >doing anything wrong. Forget about it." And I left.
- > BUT I'M SO ANGRY I COULD CHEERFULLY CHOKE THE LIVING SHIT OUT
- >OF THIS WOMAN!!!!!! AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT (I just got
- >off of work, and I'm still shaking with anger).
- > What worries me is that this job is what stands between me and
- >financial disaster right now, and I need to keep it. That's why I've
- >been watching myself and watching my work. Everyone else on the job
- >thinks I'm pleasant to work with, except this one woman, and I don't
- >know what to do about it. I can't change the way she feels about me,
- >and I'm not about to brown-nose to her. But I need to keep this job,
- >because I've tried finding another, and the pickens are very, VERY
- >slim.
- > Anyway, me and my sponsor are going to have a long talk
- >tonight, and I'll probably go to a meeting, just to feel as though I
- >have some support.
- > But is there anyone out there who has some suggestions about
- >how to deal with situations like that, and how to deal with anger? I
- >need some advice.
- >
- >--
- >"Black men loving black men is THE revolutionary act!"
- > -Joseph Beam_
- >Terrance Heath
- >heath@athena.cs.uga.edu
-