constant feelings of stress, anger, frustation etc and difficulty coping with them

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alriune
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constant feelings of stress, anger, frustation etc and difficulty coping with them

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hi all,

recently i was discharged by my therapists for non-compliance reasons, and while i am upset about that it's not really the main point of this post. i'm mentioning it because i have no professionals to talk to right now, and that whole episode has left me feeling incredibly discouraged from trying to seek out professional help again.

i feel like i'm constantly stressed and frustrated which has made me incredibly irritable and impacted my physical health (headaches, muscles aches and tension). no coping methods i've tried seem to help and sometimes even make me more frustrated. i feel like i'm going to explode and take it out on someone, i already blew up at my sister the other day. i'm also worried that i'm on the brink of developing an addiction to something like buying things or substances though neither are a problem for me right now.

i don't know what to do and most of the coping methods for stress i see are just platitudes and/or don't work for me
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Re: constant feelings of stress, anger, frustation etc and difficulty coping with them

Unread post by Sam W »

Hi alriune,

I hear you on how frustrating it is to feel like the advice out there for how to cope with difficult emotions like irritability is pretty unhelpful. Can you give me a sense of what things you HAVE tried so I don't recommend them, and what about them didn't seem to work for you? Too, with your therapist, was the discharge due to a philosophical differences, or more practical ones (like them favoring a certain therapeutic approach that was not a good fit for you)?
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