just part two to that response:
i find expressing most of my negative emotions only makes things worse. i have a tendency to escalate and escalate with no ceiling until everything in the house is broken.
that hasn't happened in a while however because i don't feel most of my negative emotions. the only negative emotions i feel are things like envy, envy is productive and motivating for me in many ways so i don't even consider it negative.
i also feel completely disgusting sometimes but i just lock myself in my room for a few hours problem solves.
my guess is you rage at your bfs because you'll still butthurt over abuse from your father?
that wasn't intended to be insensitive, but that's what it seems like to me.
i have a lot of resentment from the past but i've mostly squashed it now, or sublimate it through other emotions like envy and self-righteousness.
-- Sat Sep 19, 2015 11:01 pm --
joltaire wrote:crystal_richardson_ wrote:joltaire wrote:like bondage, wrestle them into submissive position, handcuff or tie down
then what? i dunno
bear hug!
Yes crystal,
"bear hug"
-- Sat Sep 19, 2015 11:03 pm --
justagirl00 wrote:crystal_richardson_ wrote:i also date big guys.
i don't get pleasure from physically beating them up though, and actually i kind of expect for them not to let me do that.
really?
so how do you let your anger out?
see above. i basically deny there is any reason to be angry, and also by making sure nobody wins. i think in all these years i've never admitted a defeat. i used to be a very angry person and it wasn't teenage angst, it had deep legitimate roots. but then i discovered as long i come out on top there is no anger.
-- Sat Sep 19, 2015 11:10 pm --
justagirl00 wrote:or, if they hit you, its not a natural reaction to want to hit back?
sometimes, i can just take it. i had a boyfriend that liked to smack me
its embarrassing to admit. but...i had a fetish for a long time of someone smacking me (i asked a few guys but they were repulsed)
so this guy liked to do it, so of course, i let him, and it sort of sucked, but in a masochistic way i enjoyed it, while hating it
maybe that's the same sort of thing?
that's another thing.
yes, it's flipping sadism into masochism, and taking the aggression out on yourself. that works for me as well. i used to burn myself with cigarettes and lighters as well, or let people do it to me too. but i stopped that because it made a mess of my body.
justagirl00 wrote:it was sort of a consensual thing, then. but if he did it nonconsensually.....it made me rage at him to the point that he was like, pale, and sweating....(and i'm talking about a 200+ pound body builder covered in tattoos that took steroids)
i understand that. and the sheer fact that it tires you out, you don't feel angry any more.
anger is sometimes just excess energy. but things can trigger us such that we believe they caused that energy and so we direct our anger at them or it even though it may have had nothing to do with our sense of excess energy.
it's worth recognizing when it's just excess energy, and not a response to anything in particular. but it's hard not to attribute it to something in the moment when you have so many things you are resentful about.