It is typically characterized by feelings of stress, frustration, and irritation.
Everyone feels anger from time to time.
Its a perfectly normal response to frustrating or difficult situations.
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Anger can range in intensity, from a slight annoyance to rage.
It can sometimes be excessive or irrational.
Characteristics
When we are angry our body goes through certain biological and physiological changes.
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.
Your heart rate quickens and your blood pressure spikes.
Your body also releases hormones like adrenaline and noradrenaline.
Expressing anger healthily is also important for your mental health.
Causes
Anger can be due to either external or internal influences.
A person or an event could make you angry.
You could be angry because someone cut in line in front of you in line.
You might feel angry when you are emotionally hurt, threatened, in pain, or in a confrontation.
In these cases, anger becomes a secondary emotion.
Anger is often sparked by a trigger this could be either rational or irrational.
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.
However, some people need treatment.
The most common way to treat excessive anger is with therapy.
Therapy
For most people, its easy to identify the triggers and emotions behind their 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.
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