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Is Your Anger Out Of Control?


By Peter Dawson

Do you get angry? Everyone gets angry don't they, and that's ok. We all get angry because anger is a preconditioned emotional response to various stressful life situations. But although we all get angry some of us suffer from anger to the point where it can be a serious problem.

Like many emotions, anger can get out of control. It can become overpowering and get way beyond normal bounds. And this may have happened to you. But if you are finding that our anger is getting out of control it can damage your life in so many different ways.

It can lead to all sorts of unusual behavior. There are so many ways that someone suffering from uncontrolled anger can manifest that. Some are obvious like shouting, but some are not so obvious. For example it can lead to behavior like short temperedness, sullenness, withdrawal into oneself, chronic grumpiness and overt aggression when dealing with other people.

And there can be way more serious manifestations like violence and threats of violence to other people including the sufferers family, loved ones and children. When anger reaches this stage it is way out of control and something has to be done about it.

These sorts of behaviors can have severe impacts on the life of the sufferer. Usually their relationships suffer or break down entirely, they can become lonely and alone and resentful, and feel like they've totally lost control of their lives. In serious cases life can totally spiral out of control leading to even more serious implications.

And that's just the impact on the emotional state of the anger sufferer. There can be all sorts of health implications as well. For example excess anger can manifest itself in heart related problems and heart attack, high blood pressure and stroke, digestive problems and skin problems, insomnia and depression and more. It can get pretty scary.

And it can be quite unpredictable when a serious anger attack occurs. It's often in response to a stressful life event and of course stressful life events happen to everyone, there's little you can do to avoid some stress and disappointment in your life. But most people get angry, settle down and carry on.

But even though you can't stop stressful and disappointing things happening to you you can change how you react to them. The event may happen but it's your reaction, not the event, that is the problem.

Your reaction is totally within your control. That doesn't mean that right now, understanding this, you can suddenly control yourself. But it does offer hope that there is something you can do if you know what, and how.

There are anger management techniques available that allow you to control your reaction to these stressful events. Not everyone can immediately take control of their lives with some simple techniques, some need professional counseling, but many can.

But there are answers to spiraling down into a life of rage and upset and broken relationships. It needs you to make the decision to take control of your life and do whatever it takes to learn the techniques. Once you've done that you ought to get down to work and start learning some solid and effective anger management techniques.

There is an anger management book on my website full of anger management tips for you to start your learning.

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