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Anger only becomes a problem when it’s excessively displayed and begins to affect your daily functioning and the way you relate with people. Anger can range in intensity, from a slight annoyance to rage. It can sometimes be excessive or irrational. In these cases, it can be hard to keep the emotion in check and could cause you to behave in ways you wouldn’t otherwise behave.
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Characteristics
When we are angry our body goes through certain biological and physiological changes. Examples of biological changes your body might go through include:
Anger doesn’t look the same in everyone and we all express it in different ways. Some outward characteristics you might notice when you are angry include.
Complications
Anger is a completely normal and typically healthy emotion. However, it can be detrimental to both your emotional and physical health when you lose control of it. When you are angry your body goes through some physiological and biological changes.
Identifying Anger
Anger is a normal human emotion, but it’s important to find healthy ways to express it so as not to alienate people around us. Expressing anger healthily is also important for your mental health.
Causes
Sometimes we use anger to replace other emotions we would rather not deal with, like emotional pain, fear,loneliness, orloss. In these cases, anger becomes a secondary emotion. Anger could be a reaction to physical pain, a response to feelings of fear, to protect yourself from a perceived attack, or in response to a frustrating situation.
Anger could also be a symptom or response to a medical condition. Anger could be a symptom of depression, substance abuse,ADHD, orbipolar disorder.
Types of Anger
There are three main types of anger.
Anger can also be expressed in either one of two ways: verbally or nonverbally.
The two ways people express their anger are not mutually exclusive and it’s possible to see a person expressing anger in both ways.
Treatment
Anger is a normal emotion we all feel, and for most people, they can find ways to express it in a healthy way. However, some people need treatment. The most common way to treat excessive anger is with therapy.
Therapy
For most people, it’s easy to identify the triggers and emotions behind their anger. But some people experience anger suddenly and intensely without being able to curb it or identify the triggers behind it.
If you are experiencing frequent and intense bursts of anger that are causing physical and emotional damage to you or the people around you then you might need professional help with dealing with your anger.
Anger management therapyis used to help you learn healthy ways to cope with the emotion.
Coping
Finding ways to cope with anger is very important. When we allow anger to take control of our lives, it can affect everything we do. It can damage relationships with our loved ones and cause problems in our workplace. If you’ve been finding it difficult to keep your anger in check in certain situations, here are a couple of coping mechanisms that can help.
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3 SourcesVerywell Mind uses only high-quality sources, including peer-reviewed studies, to support the facts within our articles. Read oureditorial processto learn more about how we fact-check and keep our content accurate, reliable, and trustworthy.American Psychological Association.How to recognise and deal with anger. 2012Staicu M, Cuţov M.Anger and health risk behaviors. J Med Life. 2010;3(4):372-375.Williams R.Anger as a basic emotion and its role in personality building and pathological growth: the neuroscientific, developmental and clinical perspectives.Front Psychol. 2017;8.
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Verywell Mind uses only high-quality sources, including peer-reviewed studies, to support the facts within our articles. Read oureditorial processto learn more about how we fact-check and keep our content accurate, reliable, and trustworthy.American Psychological Association.How to recognise and deal with anger. 2012Staicu M, Cuţov M.Anger and health risk behaviors. J Med Life. 2010;3(4):372-375.Williams R.Anger as a basic emotion and its role in personality building and pathological growth: the neuroscientific, developmental and clinical perspectives.Front Psychol. 2017;8.
Verywell Mind uses only high-quality sources, including peer-reviewed studies, to support the facts within our articles. Read oureditorial processto learn more about how we fact-check and keep our content accurate, reliable, and trustworthy.
American Psychological Association.How to recognise and deal with anger. 2012Staicu M, Cuţov M.Anger and health risk behaviors. J Med Life. 2010;3(4):372-375.Williams R.Anger as a basic emotion and its role in personality building and pathological growth: the neuroscientific, developmental and clinical perspectives.Front Psychol. 2017;8.
American Psychological Association.How to recognise and deal with anger. 2012
Staicu M, Cuţov M.Anger and health risk behaviors. J Med Life. 2010;3(4):372-375.
Williams R.Anger as a basic emotion and its role in personality building and pathological growth: the neuroscientific, developmental and clinical perspectives.Front Psychol. 2017;8.
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