Watch your anger

Can anger be useful?

Anger can be useful, but it can also be frightening. When something makes you angry, adrenalin causes your body to prepare for ‘fight or flight’, giving you energy and making you feel tense.
Releasing this energy and tension is good for you, but it can be difficult to do so in ways that are constructive. In most situations, fighting back or running away (‘fight or flight’) isn’t helpful and anger can often lead to responses that make things worse rather than better. Being angry isn’t a problem in itself. It’s how you deal with it.

Often if you feel angry, it’s about something that is happening to you at the time. This is usually something that is over quickly, for example, sounding your horn if another driver causes you to brake suddenly, shouting at people and other medium. Something happens that makes you angry, you express your anger and then move on. When you don’t express your anger, or express it at inappropriate times or in unsafe ways, this is when it can damage your health and your relationships. This is especially so, if something has made you angry in the past and you didn’t express your anger at the time – because you felt you couldn’t or
didn’t want to – then that anger can get ‘bottled up’ or ‘suppressed’. anger is necessary but it all depends on how you deal with it...watch your emotion they defend you, watch your anger they defend who becomes part of your life.