The psychology of anger

Anger is an emotion which gives a way to express negative feelings. It involves a strong uncomfortable and hostile response to a perceived provocation, hurt or threat. Humans show expressions when they are accumulated by anger either from the within or external factor. It motivates you to find solutions to problem. It can be a substitute emotion, which means sometimes people make themselves angry so that they don’t have to feel pain by changing their feelings of pain into anger because it feels better to be angry than it does to be in pain. But anger can cause a problem.

We have different reasons to be angry for, voluntarily or involuntarily. Some concerns personal matters and others relating to people. Understanding where your anger comes from and to whom you passes upon to is important. For example; in females, research has clearly showed the relationship between their mood disorder and fertility which causes unconditional anger in their childbearing years, and bipolar; which is derived from the Greek word bi + polar which means two poles (two psychological sides of the brain) a mental disorder that causes periods of anger (depression) and periods of abnormally elevated mood.

Stress also causes mental pressure resulting to descendant of aggression which is an involuntary anger that comes from the within. An empty stomach results to hunger which also causes involuntary anger as the brain losses energy resulting to mental stress from which the famous quote “A hungry man is an angry man” evolved.  Being conscious about the source of your anger reduces the chance of descending upon an innocent victim. Our anger as an emotion is sometimes stimulated unintentionally and unknowingly to the effect by people around us or in the virtual world, in this situation, one is urged to address such anger as mistakenly sourced and therefore bestow upon forgiveness to the person.

We often tag anger as an emotion we are better off without; we read self-help books to avoid fairy outbursts. But is it really an emotion that should be dealt with in such a way? Maybe not. Psychologist say there are many ways of expressing voluntary anger which can help you avoid pressed emotions which take other forms such as binge eating or resentment, it alleviated uncertainty and can help avoid more aggressive situations. After we get rid of our anger, we are often in a sober state of mind to reflect on our actions, anger can motivate you to achieve what you want or drive others to achieve something for example, you can be angry at your kids for not studying, being a coach, you can be angry at your team for under-performing and so on.

Though anger and violence are related to each other, if anger is expressed in time, it can stop violence from occurring, by expressing your anger, you release pent of frustration within you. Anger can make you positive by expressing in time and letting everyone know about your likes and dislikes, your mind would stay at ease and so will you. Keeping anger within yourself brings about multiple health problems, because anger is a toxin for your body hence, when you remove it, you make your body healthier.

Anger is a completely normal and even healthy emotion, it is important to deal with it in a positive way. Dealing with it a negative way turns it to be destructive and totally out of control resulting to a complete and total massive depression. In this condition, it creates a chain which passes depression from one person to the other and so on. Chronic, explosive anger has serious consequences for your relationships, your health, and your state of mind. Getting anger under control is easier than you think, because with insights about the real reasons for your anger and anger management tools discussed in this article, you can learn to keep your temper from hijacking your life.