Anger/Rage
 

When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing or situation - some fact of my life - unacceptable to me. I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment. Nothing, absolutely nothing, happens in God’s world by mistake. Until I accept life completely on life’s terms, I cannot be happy. I need to concentrate not so much on what needs to be changed in the world as on what needs to be changed in me and my attitudes.

That is funny.

Water off a ducks back !!!
 

Some Villagers who have lived here for 10-15 years are used to this kind of attitude. Was not like this in 2000+ Its getting worse with Covid agreed. If we all worked together it would help but the A & E crowd loom larger each year. (Attitude and Entitlement). We are all entitled to have a safe happy retirement, but wont get it now..... We all worked so hard for this and thanks to some it will be tough to remain safe.

If you let others make you angry they have control over you. Take your life back, be happy.

one of my all-time favorites-Dunaway rocks the house

But we can certainly try to change things and you think are out of our control. I live in a wonderful state where you have government workers that actually listen to your complaints. 2 years ago the road leading up from my Village have dozens of pot holes that I had written about. I'm fine really. The right person to talk to who told me how to complain and they spent half a million dollars to repave part of the road. Every few months I email the various government officials responsible for painting lines on the roads we're clearing the trash on the sides and most of the time I get good actions. Some things I don't but like you said you can't worry about everything or getting mad. In all honesty and some people get older they do need drugs but also he might just be an attitude Readjustment or need for a real vacation. PS I stop giving my SS number also as it happens to be a federal law saying you don't have to and I have not had one doctor refuse my money

Some light exercise, I change in diet, or some liquor will also help

Dare I mention more sex on this board? Meaning to have more creates endorphins which help your mood and hopefully your partner

Intrusion!
 

I answer NOTHING that isn't health related.

M0re
 

In all seriousness, the first thing the nurse practitioner asked as they check your blood pressure is have you had thoughts of suicide or depression, by the way most of our Medicare Part D plans now have unlimited psychological/ psychiatric visits with no co-pays. Really.

I've been a bunch of different doctors and medical people and had to fill out those papers. Half the time the doctor doesn't even look at him breed them or know him and they certainly are inputted into the computer.

No you completely wrong about this

I think you’ve mentioned something that is a lot of the problem: 24 hour news. If you want the lower your stress and anger level, start by completely cutting out television news. ALL of it. It is designed to keep you watching, and it does that by alarming you and angering you and making you hate. How do you watch ANY television news without concluding that our country is on the brink of destruction and that all cities are cesspools of iniquity and that most people in minority groups are criminals? Yet that isn’t true. This summer I drove in a triangle from here to the Canadian border, to Denver, and back to here. What a beautiful, well-ordered, peaceful country we live in.

Also, stop reading any “news reports” on Facebook or YouTube or other sites. Most of that stuff isn’t true. Again, it is teaching you to fear and hate and be angry.

If you need a weather report, use the very accurate online site WeatherUnderground. If you need news from the country, believe it or not, read The Villages Sun. It focuses on good news and gives you paragraphs of what is happening around the country. It doesn’t include everything, but you are in a dark place, and that may be enough news for you right now.

I'm mad as Hell and I'm not going to take this anymore - YouTube

Responsibility
 

These things don’t bother me. Why? Because I take responsibility for my own emotions. I make ME mad. I make ME angry. I make ME sad. No ONE else can make ME angry..or sad… or happy for that matter. MY perceptions of things control my internal thoughts and thereby my reaction to those things. If one doesn’t like the way they are reacting/feeling then you have the control to change your perception of the situation and your emotional reaction. It’s the whole glass half full, half empty thing.

How do you take responsibility for your emotional responses when you don’t like them? Mindfulness help. Step out of yourself and look at the situation from a fresh perspective. Is this circumstance going to impact me 10 years from now? Is it going to matter ? Etc? When you emotionally get into negativity you are hurting yourself the most because it actually impacts the cells in your body. Meditation daily is also helpful. There are plenty of books out there to help view even the worst situations and get through it without a overwhelming impact on yourself. It’s only up to you.

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