Realistic Optimist Hard At Work

[AnotherStander]

Sorry, screwed up the formatting on that last post. Here is how it should look:

I tried so hard to hide that those statements affect me. I only let a litte sad guy out before slapping myself mentally and getting back to the awesome man I am..

I love that comment!! Keep it up brother!

So I still feel anger bubbling up to the surface, I repress it and it turns to anxiety and I get the feelings of an anxiety attack.

Like Bug said, don't repress that anger. It'll just come back bigger and nastier at the most inopportune time. Have you read the Happiness Trap? It gets into a lot of tips and techniques for handling "unwanted" emotions. The basic concept is that we need to quit thinking of emotions as good or bad, but see them all as necessary and normal. Once we see them that way, we quit trying to fight "bad" ones and embrace "good" ones, but instead let them all happen and learn to handle them without changing our approach towards life.