healthy ways for dealing with anger

[MrsMuddyPuddles]

So... had a fight with DH last night. Sorta. DD (age 3) wanted to do arts and crafts things, I wanted to reorganize all the craft stuff into one place, so I asked DH if he could watch her. He said yes, but she kept coming after me, like she always does. Then it got to be after dinnertime, so I switched to making dinner. She still wanted me, and DH was doing his own thing (working on getting something set up that I'd asked him about, because he always assumes that when I ask him to do something I mean "right this seccond" and not "when you can")

Anyway, while making dinner, I burned myself then scratched it :( It didn't help, only hurt :( I'm guesing that it's actually a GOOD sign that it doesn't work as a coping method anymore but... what do I do now? I can't remember what I used to do, other than yelling at people, esp the person I was angry with which I stopped doing because DH said it was affecting him really badly... sometime after that my depression started

So, yes. What do you do when you're angry, oh wise women?

*and men of course!

Probably not the best person to offer advice here, but I clean something. Like, scrubbing the kitchen taps. Cathartic, and they shine afterwards and make me smile. :)

I'll give that a go, thanks.

I used to go into bedroom, cover face with pillow and scream, but in your position I'd either get toddler into bed before dinner-time or arrange for DH to keep her out of kitchen at this time - and tell him it's affecting you really badly if he can';t manage this...