Anger Management
101
Table of Contents
How to Recognize Anger
When Anger Leads to Abuse
Commit to Change and Manage Anger
Early Warning Signs and Your Triggers
Taking Time Out
Relaxation to Counteract Anger
One Thing at a Time
Substance Abuse, Depression and Anger
Catastrophic Stress = Catastrophic Anger
Learning Assertiveness Skills
Learning Better Communication Techniques
Teaching children and teens how to control
anger
Self-Esteem and Anger
Forgiveness
When to Seek Professional Help
How to Recognize Anger
How to Recognize Anger and
Handle it effectively
Anger is a feeling that has to be recognized
outright. Anger could be a start of something deeper, like rage or violent
actions and reactions. You’ve got to control your anger, because it has the
ability to control you.
Anger is best recognized and best controlled if
it is more understood. The first step in better understanding anger is to know
what the types of anger are. If you know the cause of your anger, the better you
can combat it. Here are the types of anger and a short description of what they
are.
1. Behavioral Anger. This type of anger is
comprised of aggressive and cruel actions. It inclines mostly on the physical
aspect. It usually implies an attack towards the subject of the anger, usually a
person. It is expressed through trouble-making, physical attack and defiance.
2. Verbal anger. This type of anger, on the
other hand, merely uses words and not actions. It is expressed mostly by openly
speaking insulting words and hurtful criticisms. Accusing somebody of a crime or
of a wrong-doing is also an example of verbal anger.
3. Passive Anger. Passive anger is shown mostly
through mockery, or through avoiding a certain instance. People who are
displaying this type of anger are not showing their anger outright but are
devising covert ways of expressing it. They do not confront a person or a
situation.
4. Self-inflicted anger. This type of anger is
the one that is directed toward a person’s own body. Sometimes, people showing
this type of anger tend to starve themselves or eat too much, for example. These
are the people into the idea of punishing their own self for something wrong
they have done.
5. Chronic anger. People with chronic anger
are just angry in general. They are angry with their lives, with their selves,
with the people around them and the whole world in general. They don’t
necessarily have a definite reason why. Most of the time, they are just angry
for apparently no reason at all.
6. Judgmental anger. This type of anger would
lead somebody to hurtfully shame the people around him, like his family, friends
and neighbors. He expresses his anger by putting others down and belittling
their abilities as a person.
7. Overwhelmed anger. This type of anger is
seen on people that hate the situations happening around them that directly
affect their lives. They usually shout or lash out at someone or something
easily. They do so because that’s their way of relieving the stress and the pain
they are feeling.
8. Constructive anger. This type of anger is
the type that makes people want to go out and join groups and movements. And
they usually do it because they wanted to do something to correct a certain
situation. They wanted to make a positive change. And that’s the main effect of
this type of anger.
9. Volatile Anger. This type of anger is the
one that easily comes and goes. The magnitude of this anger varies too. It could
build into a rage, or it could be a mild, sudden anger. It could explode
abruptly, or it could go unseen. It all depends on the person controlling the
anger. This type is expressed either by verbal or physical assault.
10. Retaliatory anger. This type of anger is
the most common one. Usually people get angry because other people are angry at
them. This anger depends mainly on the other person. If your anger is due to a
person lashing out at you, then you are guilty of this type of anger.
11. Paranoid Anger. This anger arises if a
person feels, in an irrational way, that they are intimidated by others. People
with this type of anger feel and think that other people wanted to take what is
rightfully theirs. They are angry toward that person because, for one, they are
jealous.
12. Deliberate Anger. This type of anger is
shown by people who would like to gain control over a situation. They are mostly
not angry at first. But they will be once you have shown that you are against
what they have planned and what they would like to happen. They use anger to
gain power over somebody or something.
These are the most common types of anger.
Determine what type your anger is. Then harness it accordingly.
To be continued
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