It sounds like you are someone who is not naturally angry who had a lot of cause for anger at one point in your life. I would be very careful in extrapolating from that experience to what will work for people who may have a natural tendency towards being generally angry.
No, I'm naturally a hot head. One reason I don't anger easily these days is because I have resolved a lot of my problems and I rarely run into anything as extreme as what my past held. So most stuff is "small potatoes" in my eyes. I'm a "bounce off the walls" type but I surround myself by people who aren't like that so it doesn't get fed. My youngest son is also something of a hot head, though less expressive of it in part because he is an introvert. We have found that when we are mad, the best thing to do is physically separate us. Doing so reduces tension by 50%. We feed on each others anger.
