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[Wardo]

Greetings,

Here's my story: I brought home with me a very special ☼baseball bat☼. It was a headache to find it, package it safely for transport, and lucky the airport atom smashing crew didn't destroy it.

At home, Urist McClueless pointed correctly at the perfect spot to hang the bat at, and we discussed how to get it done. I explained we simply needed two screw hangers of any kind to hang it by the knob or base and that's it. McClueless then went to the hardware store to acquire said hangers while I ran off to other errands.

When I returned McClueless told me the job was done. Wow, already? Cool, I guess. So I go check it out and - shock, horror! - find my precious being clasped by some weird clamp thing at the beginning of the barrel. Not only is it a butt ugly way of doing it, but as I loose the very tight and large clamp thing to remove the bat I discover it has carved a dent all around the bat, ruining ink, shape and most of all: my sanity.

At this moment I am completely possessed by rage, as if someone had butchered my cat, and would like to finish ruining said bat, now worthless, in McClueless' head. Is there any other way of overcoming this insanity without hurting people over inanimate objects?

[Lordinquisitor]

Meditate. Let inner peace fill your body.


 


Just kidding, ofc. Punch something. Go into the woods with an axe, oil, alcohol and a lighter. Have fun. Scream and hit and burn some trees down. Get drunk. Rage some more.

[Euld]

Take a walk, get away from Urist McClueless, or maybe play a game to vent that anger.  Then corner Urist McClueless and explain how his cluelessness made you mad, in hopes that he may change.

[Nikov]

Take an axe, go into the forest, find a deadstand trunk, and work it out.

[Argembarger]

Take an axe, go into the forest, find a deadstand trunk, and work it out.

[Nilik]

Well, you already have a baseball bat, right?

In seriousness, get some excersize. Its hard to be pissed when you're exhausted.

[ChairmanPoo]

Remember young Wardo. Anger, fear, aggression... the dark side are they. Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny.

[smigenboger]

Screaming and hitting things will just train yourself to react worse with anger.

When you wake up in the morning, consider comedy.

[mainiac]

I used to have a really hard time controlling my anger.  Then I started laughing at all of life's absurdities, including my own misfortunes.  Whether something made me angry, sad or bitter, I'll just laugh at how crazy life is.  It took a few years to really develop the habit, but now I have a lot easier time controlling my anger.  I've always found irony and sarcasm to be funny, but when I started appreciating them in the daily grind, life became a lot more bearable.

Important caveat: do not laugh at other people's sufferings unless you want to piss them off.  Only laugh at your own suffering.

[smigenboger]

When observing two people making complete asses of themselves, you are allowed to smile, grin, and simper. It's much more fun than trying to correct them. If it's not too heated, you can ask probing questions that continue to make them sound silly, so long as they are stealth ones and not blatant.

Do this to yourself too, granted you don't try the latter.
(I'm not sure how you continue to make yourself look stupid by asking yourself things that secretly undermine you without you letting yourself catch on that you're secretly doing it)
((I think it's time to sleep))

[Eugenitor]

Apply the same clamp to Urist McClueless's nutsack.

[Astral]

http://www.cracked.com/article/85_6-bullshit-facts-about-psychology-that-everyone-believes/

Number 6, the first one on the page, is what you should look at. Releasing anger by physically doing something to an object/person simply trains yourself to do it more often.

Personally, I've trained myself to be scathingly sarcastic at worst, but generally a happy-go-lucky asshole at best in terms of how I deal with my anger. This has the unfortunate side effect of people not always knowing whether I'm joking or not (and in some cases not taking me seriously) but that's just people in general; the ones I know best know when I'm actually pissed as opposed to simply being myself.

[Pillow_Killer]

Baseball bat. Apply directly to the forehead.

[KaguroDraven]

Off Topic: Pillow_Killer, your comment is of Masterwork Quality.  Well done.


On Topic: Have you consitered venting your rage into violent games? Getting out all that rage on a game like Prototype can help consitering all the horrible ways you can hurt people to vent the frustraition.

[Puck]

http://www.cracked.com/article/85_6-bullshit-facts-about-psychology-that-everyone-believes/

Meh. I've been a cycle messenger for years, and it's not so long ago we had our total traffic breakdown. So people aren't as relaxed about... ummmm.... creative biking as they are in, lets say N.Y. for instance, because they are used to it already. (If you can't picture it, I suggest spending half an hour with youtube and the search term "Lucas Brunelle")

As a result of that I had a lot of... aggressive confrontations every day. Sooner or later it got to me and made me hella angry, too. Which I really really don't like. I'm pretty sure aggressions and hate do nothing but nurture ulcers in your intestines and bad vibes in every social contact.

A lot of times I didn't manage to cope and it made me either sick or unhappy, but the times I managed to not get sucked in/not being suffocated by anger I'm sure I "vented" somehow.

It wasn't beating something up, it wasnt shouting at people and it wasnt somehting like "Bret's Angry Dance", it's true, those things only make it worse.

But I talked about it (sometimes rather pissed off and quite loudly) and I accepted the anger. Something like that. It felt like venting, somehow. Sorry I can't be any clearer, but I never learned it completely. For me it can still be hard living in a big city with so many pissed off people, but I have to deal with it somehow.