I am angry because I can't keep my mind of the things that make me angry.
I keep thinking about them and thinking about them and thinking about them.
Someone tell me how to get your mind off of hurtful things.
I am consumed.
I'm no doctor, only a carpenter, but I read something in a story recently that caught my eye...and it may or may not help, but it seemed like a different approach to the problem of...anger, in part. (I just went to Goodreads to see if I could find my "review"...notes to myself, really, better than a jumbled-up mess of paper wedged into each paperback I read)...(and too, maybe it was last year that I read it--this makes me angry, not being able to find something that I know exists...maybe one of Jones' novels...Some Came Running or the other one...and I can't for the life of me recall the title although it is a favorite story)
Anyway, although I think the description can be applied to anger, or what makes one angry, as I recall it had to do with what is now called Post Traumatic Stress...and this character in this story described how he overcame his stress...those things that plagued him. He embraced those scenes when they entered his mind. He explored each and every detail. He welcomed those times and he took it all in, every
every detail. When those nightmares during the daytime came, he examined the event(s) in detail...and eventually, those memories began to fade...
Wish I could find the story that I read that in...and like I said, I'm no good doctor. And could be this would be the worst thing to do...but when my back is sore I rub it or get the wife to rub it and eventually the sore goes away. I find that story/review I'll let you know.