Anger is an intense expression of emotion. It involves a strong uncomfortable and hostile response to a perceived provocation, hurt or threat. Anger can occur when a person feels their personal boundaries are being or are about to be violated. Some have a learned tendency to react to anger through retaliation as a way of coping.
The ideal goal of anger management is to control and regulate anger so that it does not result in problems.
- Chronic: which is prolonged, can impact the immune system and be the cause of other mental disorders
- Passive: which doesn’t always come across as anger and can be difficult to identify
- Overwhelmed: which is caused by life demands that are too much for an individual to cope with
- Self-inflicted: which is directed toward the self and may be caused by feelings of guilt
- Judgmental : which is directed toward others and may come with feelings of resentment
- Volatile: which involves sometimes-spontaneous bouts of excessive or violent anger
- Medical causes such as drug addiction, alcoholism, a mental disability, biochemical changes and PTSD
- Psychosocial factors such as stress, financial issues, abuse, poor social or familial situations, and poverty
- A history of trauma, particularly sexual trauma
- Genetics
- Physical, abnormal mechanisms in the part of the brain that inhibits or prohibits muscular activity through the neurotransmitter serotonin
Behavioral:
- Physical aggressiveness
- Verbal aggressiveness
- Angry outbursts
- Physically attacking people and/or objects
- Damaging property
- Road rage
Physical:
- Headaches
- Muscle tension
- Chest tightness
- Palpitations
- Tingling
- Feelings of pressure in the head
- Tremors
Cognitive:
- Low frustration tolerance
- Feeling a loss of control over one’s thoughts
- Racing thoughts
Psychosocial:
- Feelings of rage
- Uncontrollable irritability
- Brief periods of emotional detachment
- 7.3% of adults at some point throughout their lifetime
- 64% either strongly agree or agree that people in general are getting angrier
- Almost a third of people polled (32%) say they have a close friend or family member who has trouble controlling their anger
- More than one in ten (12%) say that they have trouble controlling their own anger
- More than one in four people (28%) say that they worry about how angry they sometimes feel
- One in five of people (20%) say that they have ended a relationship or friendship with someone because of how they behaved when they were angry
- Fewer than one in seven (13%) of those people who say they have trouble controlling their anger have sought help for their anger problems
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