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What Causes Anger?
Home » Careers » Anger Management » What Causes Anger?Posted by Your Guide on October 6, 2006 7:16 PM
Anger can be caused by many things both external and internal. There could be someone in your presence that does or says something to irritate you. You could be involved in an event such as a traffic jam or other types of delays. Or you could get angry over your own ignorance for failing to respond to something you were suppose to act on. You could also get angry because of worrying or do to excessive pain. Sometimes remembering a tragic or traumatic event can cause anger.
People express anger by being aggressive. Anger is really just a natural response mechanism to when threatened in some way. It forces our feelings to surface in such a way that we take the defensive mode. Anger is a natural reaction and is necessary for our survival. However, anger does have its drawbacks. If we let it get out of control, we can do harm to others. People have used three methods to try to control anger:
• Suppression: When someone uses suppression, he/she takes hold of anger, stops thinking about what caused it, and focuses on the positive. By doing this the person aims to inhibit the anger.
• Conversion: At this time the person tries to convert the anger into some kind of constructive behavior. This idea is with the hopes the anger won't cause any harm.
• Redirection: This is when the anger is redirected into some type of meaningful activity where the person gets some type of benefit out if it instead of going into destructive mode. The only problem with this is the anger is not released. This could eventually cause the anger to turn inward on the person. This in turn can cause hypertension, high blood pressure, or worse depression. Further any type of anger that is unexpressed can create other type of problems. It could lead to passive-aggressive behavior where the person gets back at people indirectly without a reason for it, or telling them why it happened, instead of confronting them directly. Or the personality of the individual could turn cynical and hostile.
Examples of people who haven't controlled their anger are people who constantly put others down, criticize others and everything, and make discouraging remarks about anything.
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