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<blockquote data-quote="Jenny15" data-source="post: 1797687" data-attributes="member: 196992"><p>I feel huge empathy for you. This was a childish act of bullying and really, that guard and any fellow employees could be disciplined for treating a customer in this way. </p><p></p><p>I think the way you handled it was very good. I would have walked away and pretended to ignore them, then probably burst into tears in a toilet cubicle somewhere. Or maybe gone to make a formal complaint, only to have it backfire on me with worse bullying from the company, and also the bullies forever after. (Actually I wouldn't have done that because I know that's what usually results from it.) </p><p></p><p>One tip I've used occasionally is to pretend I have an incoming mobile phone call and chat away, covering my other ear as if I'm straining to hear the phone. It sucks the wind right out of their sails because suddenly you are unreachable. They then find someone else to bully. </p><p></p><p>Once, when a man driving an SUV became road-enraged at me without cause, he then had the nerve to get out of his vehicle when stopped at the lights, walk around to my driver's door and bang on my window, yelling at me. Which is probably illegal, if a cop happens to be around at the time. I pretended to call 111 (which is like calling 999, but in NZ) and boy did he do a disappearing act. What an emotional child. With grey hair. I was shaken up afterwards but at least I wasn't assaulted. I now try to leave an escape route when I stop at lights, and I always lock my doors once I'm in the car. It reduces my understandable anxiety. Another thing you can do if hassled in your car is use the horns, hazard lights and headlights repeatedly. </p><p></p><p>When it comes to diabetically enraged introverts, you and I sound like two peas in a pod. I find it a relief to know this is in large part a biochemical issue. I wrote this thread about it the other day: </p><p></p><p>"I have spent the last two years getting more and more irritable - with myself, those around me, inanimate objects, and the world in general. </p><p></p><p>Now that I know a certain proportion of the public likely has increased irritability caused by diabetes (or other conditions) I can cut people a bit more slack. Instantly, I found I can tolerate people more. Amazing." </p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/learned-something-important-about-depression-and-diabetes-today.149350/" target="_blank">https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/learned-something-important-about-depression-and-diabetes-today.149350/</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jenny15, post: 1797687, member: 196992"] I feel huge empathy for you. This was a childish act of bullying and really, that guard and any fellow employees could be disciplined for treating a customer in this way. I think the way you handled it was very good. I would have walked away and pretended to ignore them, then probably burst into tears in a toilet cubicle somewhere. Or maybe gone to make a formal complaint, only to have it backfire on me with worse bullying from the company, and also the bullies forever after. (Actually I wouldn't have done that because I know that's what usually results from it.) One tip I've used occasionally is to pretend I have an incoming mobile phone call and chat away, covering my other ear as if I'm straining to hear the phone. It sucks the wind right out of their sails because suddenly you are unreachable. They then find someone else to bully. Once, when a man driving an SUV became road-enraged at me without cause, he then had the nerve to get out of his vehicle when stopped at the lights, walk around to my driver's door and bang on my window, yelling at me. Which is probably illegal, if a cop happens to be around at the time. I pretended to call 111 (which is like calling 999, but in NZ) and boy did he do a disappearing act. What an emotional child. With grey hair. I was shaken up afterwards but at least I wasn't assaulted. I now try to leave an escape route when I stop at lights, and I always lock my doors once I'm in the car. It reduces my understandable anxiety. Another thing you can do if hassled in your car is use the horns, hazard lights and headlights repeatedly. When it comes to diabetically enraged introverts, you and I sound like two peas in a pod. I find it a relief to know this is in large part a biochemical issue. I wrote this thread about it the other day: "I have spent the last two years getting more and more irritable - with myself, those around me, inanimate objects, and the world in general. Now that I know a certain proportion of the public likely has increased irritability caused by diabetes (or other conditions) I can cut people a bit more slack. Instantly, I found I can tolerate people more. Amazing." [URL]https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/learned-something-important-about-depression-and-diabetes-today.149350/[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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