Anger has a way of arriving like it was already waiting nearby. Reason, when it shows up, often feels like it had to travel. There’s a delay you can almost measure, not with a clock, but with the body: the throat tightening, the face warming, the hand that wants to move before you decide anything. … Read more
Intrusive thoughts arrive with the wrong timing, like someone speaking a private sentence into a public space. You didn’t invite them. You don’t even agree with them. Still they appear, full-volume, and your attention snaps toward them as if attention is something that can be hijacked. What makes it worse is the feeling of ownership. … Read more
Anger can start to feel like the only honest weather you have. Not the loud, cinematic kind either. Just the constant pressure in your jaw, the short fuse in your replies, the way ordinary sounds arrive like insults. Some people call it a phase. Some call it a personality. Neither lands right when it follows … Read more