That's the understatement of the year. No I don't have an anger issue, I am an angry person and have been since I graduated from High School. I don't know why either. I have tried everything I can think of to deal with it such as cognitive therapy, rational emotive therapy, grieving my family of origin, anger management and so forth. The cognitive therapy helped a little but the only thing that helps is Cymbalta 60 mg once a day, and I have to take a break from it from time to time because it makes me feel lethargic at times. So much so that I am drowsy.
This is why my wife is leaving me is because I am an angry a-hole and \I have battled this demon my whole life with little success. I don't know why I get mad either. I don't know what makes me so angry. I am not making light of it, it is just as destructive as a drinking or drug problem, neither of which I have. But my problem is maybe even worse as it has caused just as much problems for me. I have lost jobs, friends, girlfriends and now my wife because of who I am and my anger. My wife has nt run off to be with someone, she hung in with me for 10 years and I made her life a living hell with my temper.
She will never come back now. What just so she can have some more, I don't think so. I am lucky that my son still loves me. I am not saying any of this out of self pity either, I know I am a first class bad tempered jerk.
Has anyone here had a bad temper problem and has success resolving it? I am open to anything. At this point I would settle if my wife didn't hate my guts forever.
I have prayed so many times to ask God to please remove my bad temper and I still have it.
Please advise. I am sorry if I sound like a whiner, but I do have an anger problem and I need something that will help me to stop being an angry man.
Dog
"Someday we may look back on this and decide that Saving Private Ryan was the one decent thing we were able to pull out of this whole godawful mess."
