Counselling for Anger Management
Is your temper hijacking your life? These tips and techniques can help you get anger under control and express your feelings in healthier ways.
Anger is neither good nor bad; it is normal and healthy. It tells you that a situation is upsetting, unfair, or threatening, just like any other emotion. However, that message never has a chance to be conveyed if your instinctual response to anger is to explode. Therefore, even though it is perfectly normal to feel angry when you have been wronged or mistreated, anger only becomes a problem when it is expressed in a manner that causes harm to either oneself or others.
You might believe that letting out your rage is beneficial, that the people around you are overly sensitive, that your rage is justified, or that you need to show your fury for respect. However, the fact of the matter is that being enraged is much more likely to affect how other people perceive you, cloud your judgment, and impede your progress.
If you have a strong temper, you might think you can’t control it and can’t control the beast. However, you are more in control of your rage than you realize. You can learn to express your feelings without hurting others and prevent your temper from taking over your life with insight into the true causes of your anger and these tools for managing it.
