When was the last time you really lost it? Was it when your child ran across the road and narrowly missed being run down?
Or when someone elbowed you out of the way to get on the bus? Or was it when you were rejected for a job you thought you deserved to get? I go wild. It happens too quickly.
Anger is a powerful emotion and releasing the pressure that builds inside you is often essential to let you deal with problems and move on. This booklet outlines how anger works and explains the benefits of keeping your anger level under control or expressing it in a constructive way. It also describes some of the tactics you can use to manage your anger more effectively and minimise the personal costs of times when anger gets the better of you.
Anger is one of the most basic human emotions. It is a physical and mental response to a threat or to harm done in the past. Anger takes many different forms from irritation to blinding rage or resentment that festers over many years.
At any point in time, a combination of physical, mental and social factors interact to make us feel a certain way. Our feelings are influenced by our emotional make-up, how we view the world, what happens around us and our circumstances.
