Anger Management
Your adrenaline flows, your heart rate increases, your blood pressure escalates, your face turns red, and your voice raises. Yes, you are in anger! Whatever the case, anger is not the problem. The problem with anger is that many of us do not learn to manage anger effectively.
Usually people will act on their anger by either suppressing it or expressing it. Suppressing your anger may lead you to believe you have it under control. However, suppressing anger does not solve your problem and is a dangerous type of anger management. Suppressed anger stays with you over time and can lead to mental health problem such as depression, and physical problem such as high blood pressure.
Anger needs to be expressed. Yet, aggressive displays of anger can result in violent eruptions that further hurt you socially, mentally and physically. The goal of anger management is to help you to find the right ways to express your anger and get your anger under control. There are many ways but these are few good with immediate effects ones:
1. Breath deep. Taking a few deep breaths calms you, makes you feel stronger both mentally and physically.
2. Count to ten. Counting to ten helps you to step back from the situation, buys time for you to examine the problem and decide on an effective, rational way to express your anger.
3. Give yourself a break. It’s easier to think when you are calm. Leave the room, take a walk, then come back to the problem, examine it, and solve it.
4. Use humours to release tensions, such as imagining yourself or other person in silly situations. Do not use sarcasm - it is just another form of unhealthy expression.
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Now and then a good one comes around…
Husband: When I get mad at you, you never fight back. How do you control your anger?
Wife: I clean the toilet.
Husband: How does that help?
Wife: I use your toothbrush.
