If you’ve never been angry in your life, I admire you for your strong control of your emotions.

If you’ve experienced anger once or several times in your life, congratulations! You’re human!

Anger, “an emotional state that varies from mild irritation to intense fury and rage” is as normal as breathing is to humans. It is an emotion that rises when our desires or expectations for control or enjoyment are thwarted. That’s basically every human being in the world isn’t it?

Most people express their anger through harmful ways - through an explosion of emotions - full rage, physical abuse, violence, or what is considered even more harmful - repression. Bottled anger can lead to depression, and I think we’ve all seen movies where the meek and mild person turns into a monster of anger, hurting innocent people.

Here are a few examples of how people express their anger unsuccessfully:

Webrage
Webrage or violence caused by Internet-related frustration is fast becoming a common work place problem.

Whether your download times out, or the website you’re trying to reach takes forever to load, the anger or frustrations can be taken out in the real world? How? Some hit their equipment, others pound on their desks, while others take it out on the guy at the next cubicle.

I guess the website he was surfing was asking for too much personal information, thus the work rage:

(I’m reading a lot on how this video ain’t true?- and the info on youtube confirms this, do you have information? Let me know)

Women’s anger
Oh, you don’t want to be in the firing range when a women gets mad (imagine how riled up she gets during PMS, do you really want to see her angry?) We’ve seen all those photos haven’t we? Women, when they get mad, don’t just express their anger through shouting or tears - they get pretty sinister and plot revenge! You don’t want to get branded do you?

“A college student who branded a date’s body with a scalding piece of metal as payback for never calling her after they had sex was sentenced to five years in prison Friday. The branding “iron” was actually a length of metal wire fashioned into a “R” — heated, and applied to Samir’s torso, said Tracy Golden of the Manhattan district attorney’s office. She said prosecutors did not know what the “R” stood for.”

Health
Health wise, we all know how anger can lead to death - not of other people through violent expression of anger, but your body itself.

Just some of the bad effects on our body:

• Muscle Tension, Deterioration of Teeth through grinding and clenching

• Ringing in the ear, higher blood pressure, chest pains, excessive sweating, chills, headaches, migraines
• Peptic ulcers, constipation, diarrhea, kidney problems, nightmares, addiction, insomnia, self-destructive behavior, death.

Crimes due to Anger

Due to anger (which for some reason, Christmas and other holidays can get pretty tense in some places), 1 brother stabbed his other brother to death, which resulted in a family spending the day after Christmas at both the funeral of the dead brother, and the other at the county jail. Tragedy at what was supposed to be a joyous season, all because of anger.

The next time you do feel a tsunami of anger, think of these things and how disastrous it can get. Although really, sometimes I do feel like punching the heck out of the starbucks barista who’s looking at me from head to foot as if he was God’s gift to coffee drinkers, right? Maybe take it out on your next boxing practice eh?

Other readings:

The dangers and expressions of anger

Anger - how it affects people

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