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Dr. Laura Call of the Day

6.) Call Of The Day Top 15 Countdown - How Can I Learn To Be Less Frustrated And Irritable?

Dr. Laura Call of the Day

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🗓️ 9 April 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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How can I learn to be less frustrated and irritable? - It's a FLASHBACK to the Top 15 calls from 2018!! DeAnne is quick to annoyance and anger and slow to let it go. Why does she get so riled up over small things? | To participate on the radio program; call 1-800-Dr-Laura / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment - https://www.drlaura.com/make-an-appointment. Become a Dr. Laura Family Member: https://www.drlaura.com/ See https://www.drlaura.com/privacy-policy for privacy information.

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0:00.0

The Dr. Laura call of the day top 15 countdown continues.

0:07.0

Number six.

0:09.0

Diane, welcome to the program.

0:12.0

Hi, Dr. Laura.

0:14.0

Hi.

0:15.0

What's happening?

0:16.0

I am calling to, if I can get some help in trying to figure out how to react better to things that don't go my way.

0:28.0

I get very angry and frustrated and...

0:32.0

Well, you don't get angry and frustrated to everything that doesn't go your way.

0:36.0

So what is more typically the kind of thing that will disappoint you to the nth degree?

0:45.0

It could be something as silly as leaving the house with something I needed for the day and having to turn around and go back and get it.

0:54.0

Even though I'm just like a couple of miles down the road, it frustrates me and I just have this reaction where I feel like it takes me, you know, at least half the day to just get over that feeling of being irritated.

1:10.0

It takes you half the day to get over that.

1:12.0

I mean, I can understand saying, oh, shit.

1:14.0

I can't go back and getting it, but I'm not sure I totally understand you taking a whole day with it. So it must be that, for example, that you gave that forgetting something being distracted, having your mind elsewhere.

1:30.0

Have you ever get criticized for that? Have you ever get punished for that?

1:36.0

In my adult life, no. No, when you're child.

1:44.0

Not for being distracted, maybe for doing things that gets weren't what my parents wanted me to do.

1:54.0

Well, if you forgot your homework, if you didn't take care of something they told you to take care of. If you forgot to do something at school, if your parents got called and they had to go back and do something, I'm talking about those sorts of situations, the parent asking you to do something for them and you not getting around to it.

2:13.0

Sure, I was punished. It was not a good scene.

2:20.0

Would you say that they were patient or not patient with the kids' quirks?

2:28.0

Not patient.

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