Signs You Probably Have an Anger Issue

While everyone gets flared up or mad from time to time, and it could even be healthy to do it — not everyone can keep a check on their emotions. Frequently experiencing uncontrolled anger is not the nicest feeling, specifically, when you have to deal with the consequences. When that happens, you might want to consider whether or not you have an anger issue.

Counselor Shivani says that normal anger, and an anger issue, are two completely different things. As said expressing normal amounts of anger is simply fine. Website. Healthy anger is deliberate, balanced, and responsive to a clear and present need. It is a potent tool of human survival and adaptation.

Healthy feelings of anger are an instinctive physiological reaction and an inner signal that something could be wrong. For instance, one feels angry when one sees someone being hurt, and that anger pushes one to go do something to help. But unhealthy anger, like rage or passive-aggressiveness, does not do anyone any favors.

Unhealthy anger reflects up in a bunch of several ways, like the above-mentioned rage or passive-aggressiveness. It can also present itself as resentment, manipulation, judgment, and verbal or physical abuse. However, you should be alarmed if you feel or experience one or more of the above anger behaviors. Anger issues are a matter of their degree, duration, and ramifications.

This blog by Delhi’s leading Psychologist and Marriage Counselor, Shivani Misri Sadhoo talks about the signs you probably have an anger issue.

Here are some of them.

You are Passive Aggressive

Passive aggressiveness might not seem like typical anger, it is not loud, or violent, but it definitely counts. After all, have you ever been passive-aggressive without feeling angry? The probability is not. But then again, you might not even know you are resorting to this type of anger. Individuals experiencing passive anger might not even realize they are angry. When one experiences passive anger, their emotions may be displayed as sarcasm, apathy, and even meanness. You may participate in self-defeating conduct such as skipping school or office, alienating friends or family, or performing badly in professional or social situations. To outsiders, it will appear like you are intentionally damaging yourself, although you might not realize it or be able to explain your actions.

You Get Right Up Aggressive

Everybody gets angry, but not everyone hits walls, gets involved in road rages, or verbally abuses those around them. If you reach this level of rage, then you surely have a problem controlling your anger. Aggressive anger mostly manifests as volatile or retaliatory anger and could result in physical damages to property and other individuals. Learning to identify triggers and manage anger symptoms is vital to dealing positively with this kind of anger.

Get Angry Too Frequently

Have you completely lost your calm? Being angry all the time is not simply a sign of a problem, but it is simply plain old not healthy. Continuous, ongoing anger could tear down your relationships, job, social life, reputation, and also your health. So, for your sake and the sake of everybody around you, do something regarding your anger issues if they are repeated and ongoing.

You Blame Others

It is easy to get angry when you blame others because feeling like others is at fault for your own situation could be quite annoying. But anger issues have less to do with what happens to you than how you interpret and think about that. When anything wrong happens or something goes bad, it is always somebody else’s fault. You blame others for the stuff that happens to you rather than taking ownership of your own life. Take note of it the next time you look to blame someone for how bad you feel.

Your Anger Is Inordinate To The Situation At Hand

It is fine to get angry, but it is not fine to completely lose your mind, specifically over something small. Not cool, but supposedly more normal than you might think. As per a Harvard stud, that almost 1 in 10 adult men routinely shows wildly disproportionate aggression, and are so angry that they are likely to damage property, or threaten and injure others.

Anger Stays Too Long

While the outburst is never good, so is a long, simmering bought of anger, or a complete freak out that lasts always. When anger lasts exceedingly long, it could be a sign of a problem One typically look at the anger that is constant, or that severely affects our lives as being damaging. Also look at when anger becomes an issue, which lasts too long, intense, and frequent.”

If your anger is putting yourself or others at risk or interferes with unrelated dimensions of your life, then it might be time to avail some help from a therapist. There is no shame in it. The sooner you avail help, the better it is.

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During the current challenging time, it’s common to experience anxiety, depression, sleeplessness, and relationship challenges at home. While you are under lockdown and maintaining social distancing norms to help the country to control COVID-10 spread, your very own counsellor Shivani is now just a call and Skype video call away from you.

However, in this age of coronavirus, we hope to offer our therapeutic help. Change is difficult for all of us and changing the way you meet with your therapist is no exception.  But try it before you disregard this option.  This is a challenging moment in time, and fears and anxieties are running high. 

You may find, telepsychology isn’t a second-rate option. Instead, it’s an effective and efficient upgrade to a valuable service! 

Feel free to call Counselor Shivani Misri Sadhoo at +91-8860875040 for telephonic or video support and to book an online counselling session to address any relationship issues, emotional and psychological challenges.