I'm a normal 15 year old girl apart from i get angrier than most teenagers. So far in my school life i have had two huge physical fights at school as a result of my anger, in one incident the girl had to be seen by a nurse because i had given her a head injury. This anger has only started occuring for the past two years and in gets me into a lot of trouble at school. I've been on report twice and put into isolation. I have had hundreds of blue slips ( a piece of paper that gets written on my a teacher if you have mis-behaved). When i get angry i feel myself getting tense inside and i start to clench my fists, i get really worked up and my heart starts pounding, i can't control myself. I find it difficult to catch my breath and i always feel i have to throw something, i hit the roof last week and through a bottle at a teacher but luckily it missed. My anger is also verbal and i find it very hard to control myself when being told off or what to do or if i don't agree with something which also gets me into a lot of trouble as i often end up swearing, telling a teacher to '**** off'. My anger got so bad that my teacher sent me to a student support worker at my school for anger management. I've been seeing her for a bout a month and she gave me your 'hot stuff' book to read. So far all her techniques to control my anger hasn't helped but i'm hoping the book will. Is there any other advice you could give me?

I'm no expert, but in some instances in people, that tend to be explosive like you, there tend to be underlying maybe even repressed issues, and things have been bottled up for too long.

Have you tried seeing a counselor, to help identify the posibility of an experience in your life, that you may have "forgotten" ?


Tanja