Is Your Anger Out Of Control?

By Peter Dawson

Are you angry from time to time? Every one does. Anger is a normal emotional response to various life stimuli and situations. But although everyone gets angry from time to time not every one has a real problem with excessive anger that affects their life.

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.

And there can be all sorts of unusual and destructive behavior that results from excessive anger, like sulleness, grumpiness, overt aggression, withdrawal, short temperedness and more.

And it often doesn't stop there. It can lead to violence or threats of violence towards friends and family, even children. And when it gets to this stage something absolutely must be done about it.

And this can lead to all sorts of more serious life problems like the breakdown of relationships with family and friends, loneliness and resentment and withdrawal. Life can become a burden and there can be even more serious problems than this.

And it's not just the emotional life that can be at risk. Serious anger problems can manifest themselves in a range of other health problems too, like digestive problems, heart problems, stroke and high blood pressure, depression, skin problems, insomnia and more. It's 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 stressful and frustrating events can happen the problem isn't the event, it's your reaction to them. You can't change the event, but you can change your reaction.

If you know that it's your reaction that is the problem, not the event, this doesn't mean that you can immediately change how you react, it's a little harder than that. But it does offer hope that, using the right anger management techniques there is something you can do.

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.

Visit my website for an anger management book full of tips to taking control of your life back. - 30309

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