I'd talk to my Dr about a med change. I take lithium and celexa and it works for me. I had klonopin once and I didn't like it. I actually put myself in time out when I get angry. I go and lock myself in my hobby room and create something. It helps me

Mine comes instantly, but try to walk quickly to another room or outside and just take deep breaths and ask myself why am I so angry at... Sometimes this works others I think it does but go back and the first thing they say makes me snap instantly. Then I am sorry and apologize for behaving like that. Something inside me always stops me from going toooo far and totally alienating the person completely, so far anyway.

Medication, medication, medication, and maybe therapy.

For me it all depends on how far I have gone into rage world. I get angry then pissed, then pissed and angry. If I have made it to the third level then I am soon going to crash into major depression soon. Regret and remorse are age old friends of mine.

I try to walk away in the first two levels of rage, but usually can't in the third level.

Getting clean and sober was hell in the beginning. It is much easier to stay sober than to get sober. This helped a lot but the first year I was always flying off of the handle.

Writing helped me a lot, and still does when I wander into the second level of hate.

Medication has helped me the most.

I'm rather lucky(?)... I don't suffer from rages. When I'm manic... I just have tons of energy... a billion thoughts going through my head... spend money like crazy... take trips to wierd places... etc., etc.
I'd definitely tell my pdoc about the rages. Maybe, he can prescribe something. It must be VERY frustrating that you lose so much and can't control the rage.

i love my klonipin and xanax. are you on another mood stabilizer?

The rage is one of the hardest things for me to control, I have to know to isolate myself when I feel it boiling up. Not always possible and I don't always know it's happening until I open my eyes to the aftermath a few hours later. Luckily I have my hubby here, who knows to keep away from me and leave me to thrash it out by myself. This and having NO social life keeps things safe. Sorry not much help I know. When I find a magic wand I'll let you know!!

I take wellbutrin for the depression, after taking prozac for many years. The rage IS the other pole, I do not get mania so far as I know.
I am clean and sober.

Right, I have no social life and have to avoid other people. That was OK until my husband left me saying if I couldn't handle work I couldn't handle marriage either.

Yes, I go straight to rage as if a bell went off in my head. There is no in between. And I always think I am right. I feel shame, not guilt afterwards.

Hi NoOneLeft, i used to have the rage issue also. I had it so bad I put myself in the ER because i was bashing the telephone against the cradle one night and broke two fingers. It was very humiliating to seek medical treatment over self inflicted rage wounds, especially infront of my daughter.
I sent to therapy and worked on behavioral management, of course in addition to my pdoc tweaking my meds. Behavorial management was the way to go for me...

i'm with simon. medication, medication...and behavioral training/therapy. and, you can't let the bp be an excuse for bad behavior. if you screw up, let people know you screwed up by apologizing.

It's like a Mystical training for the mind with tools of medication and a LOT of self-determination, humility and forgiveness.

My rages are much softer now after starting anti-psychotic. I take 20mg abilify, have since April and I have only had two major rage episodes. Which is excellent for me because before it was daily.

I'm with fazer, i tend to hide until i feel human again.

Or I have a framed part of the wall with a red velvet curtain.I unveil the wall and headbutt it.To the beat of " Hey Mickey " by Toni Basil

ROFLMAO.

I am reading all of these, thank you.

Laughter is the best medicine:


Poetry Contest

The National Poetry Contest had come down to two, a Yale graduate and a redneck from Texas. They were given a word, then allowed two minutes to study the word and come up with a poem that contained the word. The word they were given was Timbuktu.

First to recite his poem was the Yale graduate. He stepped to the microphone and said:

Slowly across the desert sand
Trekked a lonely caravan;
Men on camels, two by two
Destination Timbuktu.

The crowd went crazy! No way could the redneck top that, they thought. The redneck calmly made his way to the microphone and recited:

Me and Tim a huntin went.
Met three whores in a pop up tent.
They was three, and we was two,
So I bucked one, and Timbuktu.