Anger vs Depression
Apr. 13th, 2006 10:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annwfynToday I'm pondering.
If you were in a bleak and negative mood, would you rather be irritable or depressed?
By ‘depressed’ I mean that kind of horrible, tearful feeling where you feel as if the inside of your head is filling up with mud.
By ‘irritable’ I mean that edgy, antsy feeling where everything that anyone does annoys you, and you feel like you’ve got flames and stinging nettles in your chest.
On one hand, anger feels much healthier for me. I feel energized and alive. On the other hand, I fear that anger is much less fun for other people to be around. When I’m depressed I can usually kick myself into being helpful or trying to be nice (when I’m not being pathetic and tearful), but when I’m angry I know I’m prickly and awkward and tend to be passive aggressive at best, and ranty and spoilt at worst.
And so I’m pondering. If you’ve got a load of stress in your life and a load of negative emotions, which is the best way of channeling, presuming you can? Anger, or depression?
If you were in a bleak and negative mood, would you rather be irritable or depressed?
By ‘depressed’ I mean that kind of horrible, tearful feeling where you feel as if the inside of your head is filling up with mud.
By ‘irritable’ I mean that edgy, antsy feeling where everything that anyone does annoys you, and you feel like you’ve got flames and stinging nettles in your chest.
On one hand, anger feels much healthier for me. I feel energized and alive. On the other hand, I fear that anger is much less fun for other people to be around. When I’m depressed I can usually kick myself into being helpful or trying to be nice (when I’m not being pathetic and tearful), but when I’m angry I know I’m prickly and awkward and tend to be passive aggressive at best, and ranty and spoilt at worst.
And so I’m pondering. If you’ve got a load of stress in your life and a load of negative emotions, which is the best way of channeling, presuming you can? Anger, or depression?
