Anger Management 101

Whoever made up the BS-y theory of counting to ten when one is upset missed out on a few salient points:

1. What degree of upsetness does this work for? Annoyed? Irritated? Mad? Livid? Irate?

2. Does this still work when the person or thing responsible for arousing that emotion is still in view? e.g, you are still reading the text message or the person is still in front of you saying those thing that piss you off.

3. What to do with those bottled up feeling that beg to be let loose even after all the different sets of counting have ended?

Pray, do tell.