Where Does Anger Come From?
And how can we overcome it? Consider the following four insights FOUR INSIGHTS INTO ANGER 1. Anger usually comes as a result of unmet expectations. I most often get angry when something unexpected deflects me from my agenda. When I have to wait 3 minutes in a fast food line in a noisy car and I thought it would only be 45 seconds, impatience can easily turn to anger. Anger is what we feel when things don’t turn out the way we want. The Bible does speak of a righteous anger or indignation, but we probably experience this much less than we might think. God is angry when things are not the way they should be. We are usually angry when things are not the way we want them to be. 2. Anger usually comes when we feel most out of control. The other night I was at home with the kids. My seven-year-old asked me to look at a loose tooth, so I sat down at the kitchen table as he leaned his head back and opened his mouth. Before checking on the tooth, I happened to glance over his shoulder into the
Video Transcript Where Does Anger Come From? Hi! I’m Brenda F. Dixon and I am a licensed clinical social worker and I am here with Expert Village. We have been talking about how to overcome anger. I’ve given you definitions and I’ve given you two aspects of it. I want to tell you a little bit more about anger and disrespect. A person’s thoughts are usually what will bring someone to a place of anger. Now this is talking about a person that is angry, not the person that is talking to the angry person. A person’s thoughts are very powerful. They can actually begin to manifest, act like whatever they begin to think. If a person has a cat and the cat comes into the room and they have been around cats all their lives, then they love them. They are just comfortable with them. But if a cat comes into a room and the next door neighbor was scratched violently, severely, they really don’t want to be around that cat. They don’t to be around it. So the thought is what will bring into play what the
It is always yourself you are angry at. There is some transgression you have made that makes you angry. It isn’t the other person or persons involved. No matter how much at fault they may be, your anger comes from something to do with you. Anger is always ego. Always. The situation may be incorrect. You may be absolutely right, and yet the anger is, nevertheless, ego. Certainly, a situation can need to be remedied, and yet you don’t have to be angry about it. It is your prerogative to not like the situation, but the accompanying anger is a different story. Anger is no good. It is no good at all. It does not do you, others involved, nor the situation any good. You want to put out fires, not add to them. Peace is a wonderful thing. You admire Gandhi and what he accomplished through peaceful means. How simple he was, and how obvious that he was on the right track. And yet, in your own life, for matters of much less significance than Gandhi’s, you revert to anger time and time again. You w
According to Freudian psychoanalysis, everything goes down to past experiences in our childhood. Our fears come from childhood trauma whether you remember it or not and it is generally accept that anger comes from fear so therefore, anger comes from childhood trauma. This person either had a recent change in their lifestyle that retriggered the childhood trauma or is bipolar.
