Do You Ever Get Irritated and What Do You Do About It?

win231 said:
A few years ago, I learned (the hard way) it's a bad idea to throw things at 60-70 yrs old.
I was taking my insulin before dinner & sometimes it burns; There is no way to know that you're hitting a nerve.
That, plus the frustration of not being able to eat what I'm craving did it. I threw the syringe at the wall as hard as I could. It stuck in the wall.
I didn't know I hurt my shoulder until the next day. When I reached up to get a dish out of the cupboard, I felt a horrible pain in my shoulder. For the next 6 months, I couldn't lift my arm above shoulder height. I think that's called a torn Rotator Cuff.
That's why there are no elderly baseball pitchers. And why their Rotator Cuff is always being surgically repaired. :)
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I feel for you, to have to give up the things you love. Diabetes is one of the things I fear, I can give up a lot but bread of all kinds are my favorite thing. Our dearest family friend was diabetic. He came here to recover from an below the knee amputation due to his diabetes. That was when I learned about cooking for a diabetic. I learned to cook a lot of his favorite things with a twist. Fried catfish was out, so I learned how to to a baked catfish with an acceptable coating. Crunchy and hearty. I learned how to make a pasta dish with just a few noodles but crammed full of veggies and protein so he did not miss the pasta.

Just do some research and planning and I bet you will find many things that will please you. You may not think so but will be pleasantly surprised once you try them. My friend was surprised and went home a healthy weight and a happy man.
 

Commercials irritate me. I can't watch a movie with commercials or listen to the radio because of all the annoying commercials. Luckily, there are ways to get around it in most cases. Videos on YouTube can be irritating and the only way to get around that is to subscribe, which I'm tempted to do if I can use PayPal. Google is not getting my credit card number.
 
RadishRose said:
I put my attention elsewhere.
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Most recently I made an online purchase and after I had selected, purchased and paid, I received an email informing me that receipt of my order would likely be delayed due to covid. Excuse me. Hasn't it been three years, almost, and people are still using this as an excuse for bad service coupled with high prices. If you can't figure out solutions after three years, you don't belong in business.

But RR is right. If you focus more of the positives of life and let positives DOMINATE your thinking, you will become a happier person. Try it and see.
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I think that getting irritated from time to time only
serves to prove that one is human. A pebble in my
shoe is an irritant and something easily removed.

Fortunately irritants donā€™t appear in my days all so
often and Iā€™m thankful for that. But when they do
they never last long. I feel that as long as Iā€™m not
constantly complaining and or feeling consistently
irritated that Iā€™m always moving forward toward my
next happy experience. Never staying stuck or even
worse, moving backward to my last irritating episode.
 
Oh yes..I get very irritated by people mainly.. if it's on here I just block people, I can't be doing with toxicity in my life.

If it's in real life, and they're really pushing my buttons I shout.. but I;m an Aries, my temper is fast ( not bad ).. but it's over in 5 minutes .

If it's someone who is not a member of my family..I just walk away and avoid them..

What I don't do is throw things.. never have, never seen the point to be honest .. that's a self inflicted wound . :oops:
 
Moosegow. That's my own swear word that I made up. I can swear up a swarm, and nobody freaks out. But out of earshot, I liberally use the common ones. I had a company commander in boot camp, who could really swear. He could go a couple of minutes and not repeat himself. When he finished we, recuits, always gave him a standing ovation. Moosegow releaves a lot of frustration. So does envisioning strangling the SOB.
 
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Ruthanne said:
I find myself getting irritated with some people I talk to.
Anyhow what do you do if you get irritated.?
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It's important for me to have boundaries and standards, which help quite a bit. Beyond that I focus on turning incoming negative energy into positive energy to help accomplish something that's important to me.

One time in my early 30's driving to a track race in Southern California, my best friend sitting in the passenger seat and his friend in the back were having an argument about something completely nonsensical that was getting quite irritating. I was about to yell at them to STFU but then thought wait a minute, just relax and focus on my upcoming race, which I did -- and somehow got into this happy dream state visualizing how I was going to be running. After 10 or 15 minutes my friend looked at me and said "You've been very quiet. Are you okay?" I said, "Oh yes. I'm just thinking of my race." It turned out that I ran my best time for that track 10k and both of them ran quite poorly. This was long before Star Wars and The Force, but pretty much the same principle.

SeniorBen said:
Videos on YouTube can be irritating and the only way to get around that is to subscribe
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I've never subscribed to YT and never get any ads due to using the Channel Blocker (blocks unwanted channels) and SponsorBlock for YouTube (blocks ads in videos) add-ons for Firefox. Adblock Plus and Adblocker Ultimate do well at blocking any general ads.

fuzzybuddy said:
Moosegow. That's my own swear word that I made up. I can swear up a swarm, and nobody freaks out.
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That reminds me of one I made up in high school, "Dirty Rats-O-Ritz!" but it was mostly a joke. :)
 
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Ruthanne said:
Do You Ever Get Irritated and What Do You Do About It?
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Of course I do, but I usually try to move on and forget it. If it's fixable, I fix it, if not I do my best to let it go. Sometimes I am slow to recognize it and get grumpy, trying to limit that.

Right now my irritation is with my knees not working the way I'd like. They are getting better and I have to remind myself of that, sometimes it helps, sometimes not. A friend of mine who had similar double knee replacements said that it was at the 3 month mark when he stopped thinking about his knees all the time. Hope it works that way for me too, I am just a few weeks from 3 months...
 
John cycling said:
I've never subscribed to YT and never get any ads due to using the Channel Blocker (blocks unwanted channels) and SponsorBlock for YouTube (blocks ads in videos) add-ons for Firefox. Adblock Plus and Adblocker Ultimate do well at blocking any general ads.
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Ad blockers don't work on Roku.
 
For ads, traffic, and other things that can be avoided, I endeavor to avoid them.

After moving here, I felt lonely for the first time in my life. I consciously tried to "get over it," and I did. I'm still alone, but I don't want to feel bad, so I don't.

Noisy neighbors with badly behaved dogs moved in across the street. I felt angry and resentful for a while. But I don't want to feel that way. So after a while I stopped feeling that way. Anyway, they seem to do fewer annoying things now....

Sometimes I'm thrown for a loop and don't even know what to think. Maybe someone seemed unfair or mean. I do a reality check by seeking feedback and wisdom from others (usually online).

Gratitude helps. There is no ocean here, no mountains, no interesting architecture. I've learned to appreciate the subtle beauty of the place: the sky, the clean snow, how the light falls at certain times of day.
 
I have learned what my triggers are that lead to irritation so do my best to avoid or walk away when needed.

I'm also very good at compartmentalizing things, something I had to teach myself as an employer. The ability to assign irritation to its source stops it from ruining the rest of your day.
 
Judycat said:
My irritation is like lightning. Zing! I yell out something, then it's over. The other option is to hold it in and let it eat at me for three days.
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Oh yeah, irritation can really consume a person if they let it. Good for you šŸ™‚
 

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