WHY YOU NEED ANGER MANAGEMENT

10. Lack of anger management can ruin a relationship with someone you love.

9. Anger could turn violent and you could end up in jail

8. You could lose your job over anger problems and become unable to support you and your family financially.

7. You could lose your friends over anger issues. Show me a person without friends, and I'll show you a very lonely person.

6. You could be ordered by a court to take anger management classes and counseling that could costs you hundreds of dollars and a lot of your valuable time that could be spent doing other things you enjoy.

5. Ineffective anger management could cause other emotional disorders like depression, anxiety, and stress. As if having anger problems wasnt enough....

4. Uncontrolled anger could cause substance abuse and dependancy on drugs, which can cause a lot of other issues...

3. Anger can be detrimental to your health, by causing high blood pressure, heart palpitations, headaches, and nauseau

2. Anger control issues could ruin your career, and result in lost opportunities because other people may make the wrong judgements about your character and personality.

1. Lacking anger management techniques can hamper your quality of life. The time spent being angry is time that could be spent doing things you enjoy.

Anger is an instinctive emotion to respond aggressively. Anger is a natural, adaptive response to threats; it provokes often aggressive, feelings and behaviors, which allow us to fight and to defend ourselves when we are attacked. A certain amount of anger, therefore, is necessary to our survival. Knowing when you've reached your anger expression threshold is the key to anger management.

The goal of anger management is to reduce both your emotional feelings and the physiological arousal that anger causes. You can't get rid of, or avoid, the things or the people that enrage you, nor can you change them, but you can learn to control your reactions.

There are simple anger management self tests that measure the intensity of angry feelings, how prone to anger you are, and how well you handle it. But chances are good that if you do have a problem with anger, you already know it. If you find yourself acting in ways that seem out of control and frightening, you might need help finding better ways to deal with this emotion.

Answer the following anger management test with a Yes or No to determine if you have an anger disorder. Your answer should reflect how you've felt in the past year.

1. I don't show my anger about everything that makes me mad, but when I do - look out.

2. I still get angry when I think of the bad things people did to me in the past.

3. Waiting in line, or waiting for other people, really annoys me.

4. I often find myself having heated arguments with the people who are closest to me.

5. I sometimes lie awake at night and think about the things that upset me during the day.

6. When someone says or does something that upsets me, I don't usually say anything at the time, but later spend a lot of time thinking up cutting replies I could and should have made.

7. I find it very hard to forgive someone who has done me wrong.

8. People really irritate me when they don't behave the way they should, or when they act like they don't have the good sense of a head of lettuce.

9. People I've trusted have often let me down, leaving me feeling angry or betrayed.

10. I've gotten so angry at times that I've become physically violent, hitting other people or breaking things.

If you answered Yes to more than 3 of the questions above, its more than likely you have ineffective anger control techniques, and you may need some help in developing anger management skills.

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