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    Have you guys ever been around someone that usually pretty nice, however when they get stressed out they bite your head off?

    I'll admit I am moody as hell too but I just isolate myself when I get pissy.

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    A good friend of mine is a bit like that but:

    (a) If she bites my head off, she'll apologise 15 minutes later.

    (b) I can recognise the signs and try to avoid putting my foot in my mouth when she's acting stressed.

    In the end she realised a little counselling would help, and has been less stressed as a consequence.

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    I think I might be like that, but have never seen a doc about it, so I dunno.

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    Ya me !

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    Yeah..I do that. Usually not for NOTHING....something has to trigger it. But I'll way over-react. Like I'll scream and yell because the toilet seat was left up, when normally I'd just sigh and say stop doing that.

    I also get into my blue moods where someone could hand me a thousand dollars and a box of puppies and I'd still be sad. And hell...there is little in th ereal world that a thousand dollars and a box of puppies wont fix..so I KNOW thats abnormal.

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    I know people like this some of them are bipolar and some just moody. I try not to give them a hard time we are all human,

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    The problem isn't their reaction to stress. It's the type of stress and how it effects them. "Biting your head off" is typically the straw that broke the camel's back. The TRUE question is, what got him to the breaking point? Spilling milk or Finding his house in foreclosure and the world of gray in between.
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    I guess I don't understand simply because I don't handle my problems this way. If it's really bothering me I'll talk to someone I feel as though I can confide in or I'll withdrawel as I mentioned earlier.

    I honestly don't know how I'm going to feel one day to the next. Somedays I'll wake up happy and others I'll wake up feeling like my best friend died. I just make the best of it. And at least now I have a creative outlet so I don't regress as much. But those close to me know I won't take it out on them, they understand why I get away from everyone.

    This person seeks out the company of friends, refuses to talk about it then goes ape shit if you breathe the wrong way.

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    Quote Originally Posted by greenidlady1 View Post
    This person seeks out the company of friends, refuses to talk about it then goes ape shit if you breathe the wrong way.
    i dont get this either as I too tend to withdrawl when I am not in the best of moods. But everyone handle things differantly. Maybe she thinks that being around friends will make her feel better(and maybe sometimesit does..you dont know what mood she's in before you see her all the time) and then instead she loses it.

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    I think some people just have a low tolerance for stress. I've been there. Maybe they're putting too much pressure on themselves?

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    I used to get "moody" or in a bad mood for little things, im a whole lot better about it now but sometimes it comes out. Im working on eliminating it though, practicing to remain calm and reserved. Stressing and worrying about something never helps anyways....let alone getting mad.

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    to iterate Mast, I think it depends on what the lead up is, and brought on the stress. I get extremely stressful at work, and sometimes I just have to sit-back and realize theres not a g+ddamn thing I can do about it,

    Different people react to stress differently, there is no 1 way

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    I had a good friend like that for years. I finally had to stop being her friend. I couldn't handle her degrading and insulting me when she was in her bad mood. It didn't help that she was a total pothead. As much as well like to defend weed, when an addict's high runs out....

    I am pretty sure she has Borderline Personality. She's in Cali now, and the most I'm willing to do is let her be my MySpace friend.

    Its shitty and cruel to abuse your friends like that, and the sign of a person in poor mental health.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Katrine View Post
    I had a good friend like that for years. I finally had to stop being her friend. I couldn't handle her degrading and insulting me when she was in her bad mood. It didn't help that she was a total pothead. As much as well like to defend weed, when an addict's high runs out....

    I am pretty sure she has Borderline Personality. She's in Cali now, and the most I'm willing to do is let her be my MySpace friend.

    Its shitty and cruel to abuse your friends like that, and the sign of a person in poor mental health.
    I just cut off a friendship too for the same reason, and she moved to Cali also. I say good riddance, she was too much. She has lost - no kidding - an average of five friends. That's a lot.

    I have my bad mood and temper too, but not to that point. I try to isolate myself as much as possible.

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    ^^^^

    I envy you 2, we have a client's representative that can go from normal to psycho in 2.5 seconds, our client is the state, so there is no way to cut-bait

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    I am very familiar with this since I am like this, though I have improved greatly over the past few years because of medication, dialectical behavioral therapy, mental discipline, and journaling.

    I am bipolar, though I tend to wander on the depressed side 90% of the time. But when I am manic, I will split someone, verbally, in two. I have ruined a couple of serious relationships in the past because of this. When I would go off on someone, it really wasn't their fault, it was generally other things that were going on in my life along with just in my own head that would make me go off. The person, especially if they were close to me, was simply a convenient target. So don't take it personally. The best thing you can do is simply isolate yourself from the person and ignore them if they get like this. They have to learn that they will catch more bees with honey and there are more constructive ways of dealing with stress. I normally realized I made an ass of myself later and felt embarassed.

    Because I have been dealing with this for years I know the signs that I am getting irritable and I let others know and I practice self-soothing techniques. I also work out like a freak or go on a cleaning jihad when I am manic instead of involving myself in destructive behaviors. But the person has to realize that they are behaving erratically and maliciously and then take the necessary steps to help the situation, sadly there isn't much you can do.

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    well it doesn't help our main contact doesn't "stand-up" and say no, so when she gets manic, we all have to jump.

    Also, it does help to understand that there are other external pressures. Case in point, the state organization is a new body, and they are still getting the bumps out, so I'm sure that creates even more stress.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cameron_keys View Post
    Yeah..I do that. Usually not for NOTHING....something has to trigger it. But I'll way over-react. Like I'll scream and yell because the toilet seat was left up, when normally I'd just sigh and say stop doing that.
    Yeah, I kinda do the same thing. Stuff that would normally never bother me just makes me freak out. It normally isn't the actual event that makes me break, it's the stuff that leads up to it.

    I had a fit inside the customer service line at Wal-Mart a couple weeks ago because two ladies cut in front of me. It wasn't the fact that they cut in, it was the fact that I was irritable and already annoyed with the people I had dealt with the few days before that. The people at Wal-Mart just happened to be the ones that caught me at my breaking point. My boyfriend had to put me in car and drive me home because I wouldn't stop, not even when he yelled at me for being inappropriate in public. (I was yelling asking whose dick I had to suck to be able to cut in front of a dozen people and still get waited on and telling one of the managers he was an asshole motherfucker. Bad, I know. )

    There is no real rhyme or reason to what sets me off. My SO has to be very observant and know when I'm getting pissy so he can take me home before I freak out on somebody, himself included. It's just easier than keeping me out around people with the risk of me going postal. He's a strong dude for dealing with me like he does. Ok I'm rambing...my bad.

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    Yes I have gone psycho a few times too many, with very little provocation.

    It happens less recently, because I have not been working or dealing with the stress of daily life for about 4 months.

    But you know when you are just busy tryin to get shit done? Like in a reguar week back home, things might go like this

    Monday:
    1-get a parking ticket because they changed the rules on the street outside my house
    2-miss an important make-up class because electricity went off and the alarm got reset
    3-dog gets some illness, go to vet and spend what little money I made in the club over the shit weekend
    4-downstairs neigbor is blasting their music when I want to study

    Tuesday
    1-get another parking ticket because I forgot about yesterday and I came home drunk at 2 am
    2-friend somehow knocks the DVD player on the floor breaking it
    3-heat system is on way too high and I have no control over it, turning my apartment into a virtual oven

    Wednesday morning
    1-Husband forgot to mail the car insurance cheque, and tells me this right after I have a minor fender-bender

    Then I try to go out for groceries, because cooking is something that makes me happy and relaxes me, and what could go wrong with a trip to the store?

    ...Only to realize RIGHT after I park the car that I forgot my money at home. Then I try to exit the car park (after 2 minutes of begin there), and the attendant says "$5 minimum. Thats $5 please."

    &*^%!

    I would be yelling and cursing that motherfucker into the next world! You want my goddammed $5 for 2 minutes of parking and I didn't even get my groceries? Fuck you you sorry motherfucker cocksucker peace of shit, etc etc etc. on and on. And you better believe everyone will hear me.

    But it's not the last straw, it is the million other straws beneth it.

    I know its no excuse, but we live in a stressful world. And I don't have the best coping skills, so evenetually it just builds up and the end result is UGLY.

    And this is not an exceptional week, or a bad week, it is just a regular week like all the others...

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