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[–] Lilija ago 

Short answer: destroying is easy, creating is hard.

Now I did find one thing interesting. You asked basicly how to turn anger into motivation. It needs work and most people don't see that they need to do this work until things are going south.

When I was battling with depression I was extremely angry at first. I've tried to supress that anger and eventually it lead to losing all motivation. During group therapy that I've eventually attended we've done an excercise that thought me one important thing: anger and motivation come from the same place. Getting rid of anger is a wrong approach. It's something we need. But what we have to learn thruout our whole life is how to make this emotion lead to constructive action rather than burn out. I guess depending on personality for some it might be easier for others might be harder. I personally find this hard and while I'm not as angry as I used to be, I haven't rebuild my motivation the way I would like it to be. One thing that helped me for sure in keeping certain acceptable status quo is gaming. As a perfectionist I need to learn how to let go yet still move forward. While still far from perfect, I am in much better place than 10 years ago.

Enough about me ^^ Can we make people understand the issue? I really know. I'm afraid people need to realize that for themselves. Unfortunately, if someone doesn't feel their actions are harmful to themselves there is no force on earth that can make them change that. Simply because change is hard work and one needs really strong reasons in order to start on that path. Even when one realizes that they need to change it's still easier to not do anything.