104 Ways to Starve Your Anger and Feed Your Soul
Robyn Wheeler, author of Born Mad, has written an exceptional book about controlling your anger. It is a list of suggestions about how to do just that. It can be read through and the suggestions that you feel are the best for your situation can be utilized – or – take one at a time (by the week) for 104 weeks, and explore them that way. Ms. Wheeler does not preach or lecture the reader, but just states the suggestion and lets you internalize it. How you use them is up to you. An example from the list is:
“Happiness is not an inanimate object that can be purchased from a store. Happiness is located within you. Only you have the power to make yourself happy. Happiness is a state, not a destination.”
Robyn Wheeler was diagnosed with a form of depression called dysthymic disorder, which she related in her book, Born Mad. She struggled for years with anger, until she was diagnosed. She now takes medication to help regulate the imbalance in her brain and most of the indicators of her disorder are gone or have improved.
She is the owner of Born Mad, LLC, a company dedicated to creating awareness for this disorder and helping others. She is now a newspaper reporter, author and inspirational speaker. She is a member of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, National Association of Professional Women, World Wide Who’s Who and the National Association of the Self-Employed. She is a certified Family to Family Education Instructor for NAMI, Kaufman Chapter and was named the 2012 Professional of the Year in Writing and Editing from Worldwide Who’s Who.
“Happiness is not an inanimate object that can be purchased from a store. Happiness is located within you. Only you have the power to make yourself happy. Happiness is a state, not a destination.”
Robyn Wheeler was diagnosed with a form of depression called dysthymic disorder, which she related in her book, Born Mad. She struggled for years with anger, until she was diagnosed. She now takes medication to help regulate the imbalance in her brain and most of the indicators of her disorder are gone or have improved.
She is the owner of Born Mad, LLC, a company dedicated to creating awareness for this disorder and helping others. She is now a newspaper reporter, author and inspirational speaker. She is a member of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, National Association of Professional Women, World Wide Who’s Who and the National Association of the Self-Employed. She is a certified Family to Family Education Instructor for NAMI, Kaufman Chapter and was named the 2012 Professional of the Year in Writing and Editing from Worldwide Who’s Who.
Born Mad
As the title implies, Robyn Wheeler has written a book about a disorder finally diagnosed as dysthymia, a chronic type of depression, that she has lived with since birth. Born Mad, is her journey from rage and being angry all of the time to what she considers a normal life. She spent her formative years not knowing what was wrong with her. Finally it was diagnosed and her life changed. It affected ALL of her relationships, friends, family, workers, acquaintances and even her health. The book takes the reader through her search for help, with the hope that it might help others.
After years of good and bad counselors, drugs (Prozac) that helped, researching her disorder and learning through experts about how to control and live with it, she now knows that it will be a lifelong battle. There is no ‘magic pill’ that will make it go away completely, but only things that will treat the symptoms, whether it be drugs and/or lifestyle changes. She works on maintaining her stability on a daily basis.
“I felt unloved, unappreciated, and taken advantage of, like I didn’t matter to anyone else, including my husband or my immediate family. I’d suffered the consequences of losing a friend and a sister and felt the few people still in my life didn’t care about what I was going through or understand the severity of my aching soul.”
I recommend this book to those with the same affliction and for family and friends who know someone with dysthymia. It gives a good insight to what a person goes through in searching for why they are angry and upset all of the time.
Robyn Wheeler, an avid animal lover since childhood, created a wildlife education company called The Creature Teacher, LLC. She has since sold the company and is now a reporter for The Monitor of Cedar Creek Lake newspaper and created Born Mad, LLC, to help create awareness for dysthymia. She is involved in speaking engagements and support groups to spread the word about dysthymia. She was selected as Professional Woman of the Year 2012 by the National Association of Professional Women (www.napw.com) and Professional of the Year in Writing and Editing 2012 by Worldwide Who's Who (www.worldwidewhoswho.com)
After years of good and bad counselors, drugs (Prozac) that helped, researching her disorder and learning through experts about how to control and live with it, she now knows that it will be a lifelong battle. There is no ‘magic pill’ that will make it go away completely, but only things that will treat the symptoms, whether it be drugs and/or lifestyle changes. She works on maintaining her stability on a daily basis.
“I felt unloved, unappreciated, and taken advantage of, like I didn’t matter to anyone else, including my husband or my immediate family. I’d suffered the consequences of losing a friend and a sister and felt the few people still in my life didn’t care about what I was going through or understand the severity of my aching soul.”
I recommend this book to those with the same affliction and for family and friends who know someone with dysthymia. It gives a good insight to what a person goes through in searching for why they are angry and upset all of the time.
Robyn Wheeler, an avid animal lover since childhood, created a wildlife education company called The Creature Teacher, LLC. She has since sold the company and is now a reporter for The Monitor of Cedar Creek Lake newspaper and created Born Mad, LLC, to help create awareness for dysthymia. She is involved in speaking engagements and support groups to spread the word about dysthymia. She was selected as Professional Woman of the Year 2012 by the National Association of Professional Women (www.napw.com) and Professional of the Year in Writing and Editing 2012 by Worldwide Who's Who (www.worldwidewhoswho.com)