Most people claim that mental well-being needs voicing frustration. But if you have issues handling it tactfully, here are few ideas to help you contain your frustration as it flares up. Before you react:
- Think about your purpose: Would you like to warn others to quit a certain behavior that makes you mad? Or are you attempting to get them off your life permanently?
- Consider the power differences: In principle, you want to tailor your approach to the person you are speaking with. Hurling your rage at your boss is entirely different from doing it on a colleague or a staff member. So make sure you assess the situation and power difference.
- Aim for better communication: Rather than blasting somebody with your frustration try to convey your ideas on how the problem can be resolved.
- Get on with practice: In order to keep your anger checked, try talking with a friend or anyone you trust instead of blowing up on the person who made you angry. Anger treatment can sometimes be a good place to role play such a situation.
Health and anger management:
Confronted with contradictory news and suggestions about how healthy it is to express rage, many women are unaware whether they need to throw and break things, take a stroll, or reach for a drink. There are some very good reasons for learning how to manage your temper and it can include:
- Prevent injury: No matter what your gender is, you need to be cautious about how you express your anger or else you’ll end up hurting yourself or someone else. Men are at a higher risk of injury compared to angry women.
- Some research found that about one-third of people admitted to the hospital because of injury felt irritable before the accident happened, and one out of five admitted that they felt either angry or aggressive.
- Improve your heart: It was discovered that, after questioning about 62 people with implanted defibrillators, remembering anger-sparking incidents does increase the risk of developing arrhythmia over the next three years, a disease that makes their heartbeats irregular. Other studies have also shown that, over a decade, frequent and intense feelings of anger and frustration over the course of a decade can raise the risk of heart disease.
- Anger avoidance: For those who have a propensity to suppress their frustration but then obsess about the situation later: continuing to repeat the incidents can potentially lead to more rage and depression, according to a study of 52 married couples in Washington State. Nonetheless, this is more likely to be an issue for women than for men.
Do you need anger therapy?
It’s one thing to get upset when the situation demands it, but unnecessary frustration is quite another. Yet if you need counseling to deal with rage and violence, how do you know? Here are some indications that could help you figure out if therapy is needed:
- Encountering law troubles due to impulsive actions.
- Experience unstable relationships due to the way you talk to people.
- Losing jobs due to poor communication skills
Reference: https://www.everydayhealth.com/womens-health/managing-your-temper.aspx
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