Keep anger from feeding your depression

Here are ways to keep anger from feeding your depression. •    First, identify your anger and acknowledge it. Anger is one of those emotions whose expression is sometimes subject to taboos so that people can grow up unable to recognize it; they feel its physical discomfort but can’t label it. If you are one of [...]

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Do You Have an Anger Problem?

The following are questions designed to help identify potential problems you may have with anger and/or control. This is not a researched scale, but it can point to serious signs of danger in intimate relationships. •    Do friends and family feel free to share their thoughts and feelings with you? •    If a stranger knew [...]

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Anger-Down Talk

Both research and experience show that when people pay attention to and make positive changes in their self talk, their anger is reduced and they gain control of themselves. When you feel yourself starting to get angry, take time out to get a grip on yourself mentally by the use of anger-down talk. Listed below [...]

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Anger during pregnancy

Failure to recognize and understand anger can lead to a variety of problems for pregnant women and their unborn babies. According to APA (American Psychologists Association) documentation, anger is accompanied by physiological and biological changes: when we get angry, our heart rates and blood pressure go up, as do the levels of our energy hormones [...]

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