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(HealthNewsDigest.com) – It’s common to feel frustrated due to failures, disagreements, and circumstances that are out of your control. However, there is a difference between handling situations in a healthy way and using rage to deal with issues. Unleashed anger can lead to poor health, destruction of property, and legal repercussions.
If you feel like anger is an ongoing problem, learn how to reel in your rage.
What is Rage?
All people experience periods of anger, but it’s how they learn to deal with it that separates those who are healthy from individuals filled with rage. Like other emotions, such as love and happiness, the anger is accompanied by physiological effects, such as a change in blood pressure and the release of hormones. Anger is seen by medical doctors as an adaptive response; it allows us to protect ourselves or those in danger as well as inspires us to challenge the notion of injustice. It’s necessary for survival. However, there is a difference between being protective or understood and exhibiting aggressive behavior, which can become a habit.
Rage involves uncontrollable anger, a disregard and disrespect for others and property along with hypertension and depression. Since most understand intense anger is taboo in many situations, rage can be turned inward, which leads to a number of health issues and a possible ‘culmination’ or excessive ‘outbursts.’
Horrible Repercussions
Hostile rage can lead to a number of interpersonal, social, and legal problems with worst-case scenarios resulting in serious injury, deaths, and jail time. Additionally, stress and anxiety, resulting from keeping anger inside, has been known to contribute to the genesis of cancer cells.
Moreover, those who do not openly express rage may develop a passive-aggressive personality, which involves ‘getting back’ at people indirectly or retaliating in illogical ways (A person may not deliver an important paper for a colleague because they were not invited to the person’s birthday party months before.) In short, displaying or ‘carrying’ rage poses horrible repercussions until a person is willing to recognize, accept, and resolve.
Ways to Reel It In
Aside from professional counseling or calling upon criminal lawyer Lloyd Gastwirth, there are ways to help assuage and eradicate bouts of intense anger. Taking walks, exercising, and breathing techniques help. For example, when feeling angry, reserving a few moments to take deep breaths while envisioning calming imagery aids in keeping bouts of anger from escalating. Exercise such as jiu-jitsu, yoga, and pilates helps control anger by burning energy and achieving focus.
Thought Restructuring
Therapists help patients with cognitive restructuring, changing the way you think and respond to feelings of frustration. During periods of anger, thoughts grow intense and often melodramatic. People may feel like “all is ruined” or think in radical, polar terms like “always” and “never.” Of course, thinking that things never go your way or that you’re always going to feel dissatisfied is both self-defeating and illogical. You may recall noticing a loved one or friend in a state of rage and exacting logic to help calm them. Use the same objective, cold logic on yourself when you feel angry. Logic defeats frustration because the latter state is out of focus, reactive, and momentary.
Projected Solutions
Some circumstances are frustrating; that is a fact. However, it’s important to focus on solutions rather than dwell upon the fact that there are problems. By focusing on solutions, you keep yourself positive (thinking about bettering your present state) and stay away from perseverating on negatives. Even if a solution does not present itself immediately, staying positive keeps the mind clear and helps you think of possible solutions. You can’t change the past, and in worst situations, must deal with the present, but you can change and help develop the future by staying positive and focused on solutions, not problems.
Better Communication
Those who deal with anger learn to communicate better with others and with themselves. For example, if you have a habit of responding negatively toward an individual, reserve a few moments before making hurtful, sarcastic, or harmful statements. Also, if places and things arouse frustration, take notice and ‘prepare’ yourself for an unavoidable interaction. With that being mentioned, sometimes it’s best to avoid people, places, and things that make you feel anxious or angry. Of course, avoiding problems is not the best solution, yet it can afford the time to regain focus and put thoughts in better perspective.
Found Peace
Maybe the most obvious way to find peace is to do things that make you feel happy and focused. This may involve spending more time with a certain person or group of people, engaging in an activity that makes you feel fulfilled, or making it a habit to take walks, read the paper, or watch television. Peace is as subjective as anger; people have different definitions for both states of mind, and it’s important for each individual to recognize what makes them angry along with the things that bring happiness.
Lloyd Gastwirth has successfully represented many peoples criminal defense cases for more than 25 years.
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