What is the difference between Rage & Anger?
Rage and anger are often considered one in the same but they are distinct experiences. Both rage and anger are emotions that we feel and may or may not express. Anger is more associated with a current injustice, disappointment, or dislike-someone says something ignorant and your first impulse is to set them straight, or a driver cuts in front of you without signaling and you shout out in the safety of your own car. These are forms of anger-they come and eventually we get over them and move on. Those finding themselves in a perpetual state of anger wear Defiance-one of six disguises of rage. Rage, on the other hand, is an accumulation of anger-an experience that is fundamentally rooted to something older and more personal, often a childhood experiences that shamed us, or a child living in a chronic atmosphere of fear. With rage, we feel more shaken, confused, and often paralyzed in fear. Our experience feels foreign, frightening, and intolerable. In fact, an older memory wants to emerge
