This justifies your tantrums and rages at other people based on how you perceive them to be treating you. Watson sat pondering what he was saying. To be truthful she was having a tough time understanding the difference between the event making her angry and her beliefs producing the emotion. We go down the alphabet. D is for detecting your irrational thoughts.
Detectives look for clues to solve the mystery.
Look for the mental clues or irrational thoughts that you are saying to yourself to determine the cause of your anger. Retrace your mental footsteps to the point just before your outburst and ask yourself what were you thinking. She had never thought about how her beliefs and perceptions might be causing her anger. She did know many other executives who did not have a problem with anger and still got high quality work from their staff. Perhaps Dr. Holmes spoke the truth.