I'm afraid of my father. It's only been six or seven instances. When he pulled my hair. When he pushed my down the stairs and I caught myself. When he threw a box of electronic parts at me. When he was angry before dinner and threw his food on the floor and it flew in the air. When he threatened to break down the door and wouldn't stop pounding on it. (Actually this has happened multiple times.) When he yelled at me from downstairs while he was eating, and came upstairs to yell at me. He was holding a knife. He is really easy to irritate. Any little thing, any misunderstanding, can set him off. The thing is, the rest of the time he's pretty normal. Sometimes a quiet guy. But these bursts of anger-not only shown at me, but my siblings, and my mother (which used to be really bad), frighten me as who he is as a person. Will he one day wrap his fingers around my neck? Will he hit me? (As he apparently has to my mother?) What is he capable of? His yelling terrifies me.