Feeling ragey? Don't bury your anger, process it. Here's how

While anger is common, many of us have a conflicted relationship with it. So often we're told that expressing our outrage makes us a "hothead" or means we have "issues." In other words, we're taught to feel bad about our anger. This is why it can be a revelation to learn that feeling angry isn't a character flaw — in fact, it has a biological purpose. Our emotions never hurt anyone. It's what we do with them that matters.

 How to make your anger work for you

Instead of making a rash decision or stuffing down the irritation in the heat of the moment, write down all the reasons you’re mad and what you’d like to do in response. In one column, list the ways anger could help you, and in another, describe how some of these reactions could be counterproductive, says Gerrod Parrott, a psychology professor at Georgetown University. An effective way to respond to your frustration at speeding drivers on your street is to reach out to your neighbors to pool resources and to collectively write to the city to inquire about speed bumps.

 I took anger management classes. Here’s what they get wrong about the world

The course focuses on taming a ubiquitous emotion. But what about addressing its root causes?

Anger Management

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Anger Management for an Angry Time

Anger can be useful—but it’s important to channel it strategically rather than let it consume you. Here’s how

Anger Management-The Movie

Nothing in Anger Management comes close to such glorious psycho-comedy. Instead we get a polished 'high concept' package in which one pitchable idea (an anger-free guy is assigned to an anger-management counsellor who makes him ... angry) is stretched way beyond breaking point, and sold on the basis of an all-star cast.

Anger management: why we feel rage and how to control it

In the short term, anger can be powerful and rewarding; the person who is angry typically gets what they want. But do you like being in the company of an angry person? Most people say no, and that is one of the chief consequences of anger: it is often damaging to relationships and isolating for the angry person.

Don’t Shut Down Your Anger. Channel It

We’re often told to focus on the positive. But new research shows a healthy dose of anger can be motivating.

How to Be Mindful When You Are Angry

Being mindful of anger means not suppressing, denying or avoiding it and also not acting out in harmful ways. Instead, connect with the direct experience of the anger, and then decide what action you want to take.” — Jessica Morey, executive director of Inward Bound Mindfulness Education

How to Become Less Angry

Beware the myth of catharsis: Smashing things won’t help. Despite the popularity of so-called rage rooms, where customers pay to bash televisions with a bat or shatter dishware, research shows that such expressions of anger tend to increase anger.

How To Keep Calm In A Frustrating Situation

Learning to manage feelings of anger is paramount for your health. If not handled effectively over time anger creates symptoms of high blood pressure, headaches, and can even cause more serious complications.

How To Manage Your Anger The Healthy Way

Oftentimes, you may hear things like ‘anger is an unhealthy emotion.’ Truth is, it can be a positive emotion, and bottling it up causes way more harm than good. Anger Management is essential to help you avoid saying or doing things you may regret later on.

Rage rooms are the latest self-care craze that won’t make us feel any better

Female rage is all the rage these days. It has launched a thousand think pieces and served as the subject of two recently released books — Rebecca Traister’s Good and Mad and Soraya Chemaly’s Rage Becomes Her — that treat the centrality of rage in the feminist movement, and mad women more generally. Anger has been a clarion call of sorts for women on the left since the 2016 election: Get mad.

The 4 Best Ways To Manage Anger

Letting anger fester, and mismanaging it with substance abuse or over-eating is not conducive to improving the problem or your life. Here are four ways you can manage your anger efficiently and productively.

What is anger management therapy, and could it be the answer to soothing our 'rona rage?

Rest assured that it doesn’t involve smashing plates, screaming into an empty room or boxing a punch bag. Isabel Clarke, consultant clinical psychologist at Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust and author of How to Deal With Anger says: “The most generally available (and researched) form of anger management applies cognitive behavioural therapy to the problem. It encourages people to look again at the situation that sparked their anger, look at their psychical reactions and how they are thinking about it, consider whether that is reasonable and ask if there is a better way of dealing with it.”

What Should I Do About My Rage?

The point is, when you make conscious decisions about how you’ll respond to infuriating injustices, you’re better able to see that anger is only one of the many emotions you experience on the job.