Anger
Management
Anger Management
Issues
The term, anger
management, commonly refers to therapeutic
techniques and exercises practiced by someone with excessive or
uncontrollable anger to control or reduce triggers. Anger is a
completely normal, healthy human emotion, and a certain amount
of it is necessary to our survival. It inspires powerful and
often aggressive feelings and behaviors, which allow us to
fight and defend ourselves when we are attacked. When anger
gets out of control and turns destructive it can lead to
problems at work, in personal relationships, and affect the
overall quality of life.
Anger can be caused by both external and
internal events, and like other emotions, anger causes heart
rate and blood pressure to increase, in addition to the levels
of the hormones adrenaline and noradrenaline. Over time, people
can suffer physically and have chronic health issues arise
because of their inability to keep triggers at bay.
People with anger
management issues get angry more easily and
more intensely than the average person, and the notion that
“letting it all out” helps is false, because it actually
escalates anger and aggression, which doesn’t resolve
anything.
According to the American Psychological
Association and various reliable online sources, the goal of
anger management is learning how to control anger before it
controls the individual, to reduce both emotional feelings and
the physiological arousal that anger causes.
The most common techniques recommended
immediately before escalation of emotions is to stop talking,
stop staring, and leave the room. Learning relaxation
techniques like deep breathing and meditation will also help,
in addition to stress management skills, learning empathy and
forgiveness, and becoming optimistic instead of
pessimistic.
Prolonged mismanagement of anger can lead to
serious physical and mental disorders, and if the individual is
not proactive, whether by voluntary or involuntary means, the
outcome could be disastrous. Limits are placed on how far anger
can take an individual, by laws, social norms, and hopefully
common sense. People just can’t physically lash out at every
person or object that irritates or annoys them; they need to
focus on something positive instead of losing control and
dramatizing every life event.
Fortunately for these people, there are many
reliable self-help resources available online for people with
anger issues, including online anger management counseling and
education at www.angermanagementonline.com,
featuring easy, fast, enjoyable classes, whether by court order
or voluntary enrollment.
For more information and resources on the
subject visit the American Psychological Association at
www.apa.org, and www.angermgmt.com for
additional tips on managing anger.
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