Most of us don't lead stress free lives. We all have aspects of our life that cause us stress. Whether its your children, finances, spouse, work, medical problems, whatever. In my case I was taught to "be a man, don't burden people" so I have a tendency to bottle it up. There are a few things going on in my life that cause enough strain that it brings me close to boiling over. I know you've all heard of roid rage. I don't believe that bullshit!  Rage is not anger. Anger is a feeling. Rage is an emotion. Rage is one of the most difficult and most important emotions to deal with in a constructive way. When we are experiencing it, the adrenalin is running through us so strongly that our ability to think straight is seriously handicapped. In order to deal with it, it is important to get your mind properly orientated at a point when you are not feeling rage. It is extremely important to have your ethics correct. Then, and only then can you constructively deal with rage. Besides the day to day stresses of life, my real problem comes from people. Of course there are things in my life that get me angry, but not send me into a rage. No, only other people do that to me. I'm still trying to discover why or what the problem is. Whether its the little pencil neck at work who throws darts because he knows I won't hit him or the neighbor who likes to drink and mouths off ,I assume because he sees me as a challenge. Well dealing wit these kinds of people is a real challenge for me. I had an incident not too long ago with my neighbor. Started as a few words. Nothing crazy, but then he decided to invade my personal space. Obviously he isn't thinking clearly while intoxicated but I don't think of these things in the spur if the moment. It ended badly. I threw 1 punch that made a huge mess literally and figuratively. It could have ended so much worse however because of the decision I made. When my wife asks me "why do you get so worked up at what people say", I'm not sure how to answer her. I don't really know but I'll tell you my logic. Although I'm not better than anyone else, I am physically superior to most! I have trained the better part of 20 years to use my body as a weapon , I outweigh you by 50lbs and I feel like a piece of iron, so why the fuck would you want to take it there with me? I suppose I have a superiority complex in that sense. I'll never understand why people push. It's similar to the messing with sasquatch thing. You know he's gonna fuck you up so what are you doing! Anyway, I took this in a few different directions. My point is, I'm sure all of us deal wit this on some level. Some handle things better than others. Does the juice play a role? I don't think it does. If you're already a hot head, you're still going to be a hot head on juice. If you're timid and nothing bothers you, that won't change on juice. I'm at a point where I guess I need a therapist. I do have issues that cause a great deal of stress but that can't be the reason for experiencing rage. There must be more to it that I am failing to understand. I have tried a few suggested methods in te recent past. Yoga, meditating, just continuous awareness but they don't help in most cases. Heat of the moment, adreninline , I don't think very clearly. How do you keep from boiling over?