Angry Management

Many things in life make us get angry, traffic jams, incompetent drivers to name but a few, and ‘road rage’ has become quite a common place term in recent years. While all people can be affected by anger, it seems that it is very often men who are most likely to fly off the handle first, with very little prior warning. For this reason, anger management is often a little different to the treatment required for women with anger related problems. Men with a short fuse are very difficult to live with, and for this reason many an otherwise happy marriage or relationship has come to a premature ending. Many people just get sick of dealing with a partner who has allowed their anger to control them, instead of learning to control their anger effectively.

There is also evidence to suggest that anger can seriously affect your health. Whenever you blow your fuse, rather than releasing your anger you are actually increasing your blood pressure, and have increased and rapid breathing, and studies show that people with increased levels of anger are more likely to suffer from high blood pressure and coronary heart disease. Anger management is therefore important for very many reasons.

There are many strategies which you can use in order to control your anger. Just by stepping back from a situation and giving yourself a couple of minutes to calm down can be very effective anger management, as well as techniques such as deep breathing and counting to ten, (breathing deeply from the diaphragm is a well known relaxation technique which is simple to do). Maybe if you can see a situation arising which is likely to trigger your button, take a walk for 10 minutes, listen to relaxing music and just avoid the situation if at all possible. Learn to recognise the triggers and you’re already part way there to controlling your anger, instead of it controlling you.