I get very short tempered when I'm having anxiety issues.

I'm with you I'm always pissed like I could punch someone I just started Effexor I hope it helps

My anxiety is making me frustrated with myself or if anyone needs anything from me. I am trying to work so hard at keeping myself relaxed I don't feel I can function other than having this group and knowing we are not alone and we can support each other. Peace to all.

I personally think it's stress presenting as anger; in that you feel 'all full at the inn' and like you can't take one more thing... and that one more thing seems huge but it seldom is.

So you have to counteract the fact that you're full, as it were, and not blame the poor guy that shows up with the straw that broke your back. It's very hard but I got the hang of it.

Anger/panic/stress overload all come about from anxiety for me. When I know it's a danger, I take steps to remind myself to go into lockdown so I don't blow my stack.

yes i do this as well, even though i hate using it as an excuse. but my body just can't take it sometimes

Oh thank god! I was worried that I had another issue other than the anxiety. Now I just need to recognize it more to tackle it.

Bridgie 101, you make a lot of sense. I'm still learning after my stress reached a breaking point last fall. I can't take pressure of any kind. And when that "I can't take one more thing" feeling hits, then that "one more thing" happens and I have to sit on myself to keep from blowing up my job. I learned that I need to be on two different blood pressure medicines. That has helped me more than xanax did, but I still take xanax occasionally. You have to be really careful not to increase your dose of benzos. When your dosage stops working, take a break for awhile. They will work again at the same dose eventually.

I deal in money and doing that involves depreciation or amortisation.

What is that? It's a method of recognising how much of your house you just used up this year, how much of your car you just used up this year. How much of that paintwork you just used up this year.

And where it comes into this issue is that events create stress. And you can nominate a value for that stress. Now, if you cause your stress, you pay the depreciation on it. :D If someone else creates the stress, they need to have that stress pushed back on them.

if we don't correctly place all stress as it comes at us, and use it either for our own growth or for the growth of others then it builds, unresolved, unplaced and not filed away. So it's still there, still charged, still waiting.

Then Joe comes along with his silly question and we have a giant pile of stress inside ourselves ready to be triggered like an avalanche. Does Joe deserve to wear the stress of all of these prior transactions? Or should we have allocated that stress correctly to all of those other transactions that caused it?

We've ALL had that asshole boss who blew his stack at us like an overactive volcano. We know it's not okay. But what we might not have known was that he was making a simple error and not keeping his stress levels down by resolving stress issues correctly as he went.

It's a lack of housework. A lack of tidying.

And a lack of recognition.

If work causes stress, you have to identify causes, identify issues, and then talk to the line manager about managing your way through them.