how to prevent to getting angry?
By mulau2u
@mulau2u (1459)
Malaysia
5 responses
@jhazie (340)
• Philippines
13 Feb 08
Yes sleep helps too :) when angry ,count to ten before you speak; if very angry, count to a hundred. hehehe...
A recipe to develop better control of our temper is to repeat these ideas it works for me so i share with you. these ideas mentally several times a day to ourselves.
'I can control my anger,
I can subdue irritability,
I will keep cool and be unruffled,
I will be unmoved by anger as a rock,
I am courageous and full of hope.')
Take care :)
@jhazie (340)
• Philippines
14 Feb 08
Yes it will help you a lot, anyway Continue doing good and dont think negative thats better. anger is an ugly and destructive emotion, you know :-/
All human beings are subject to anger to one form or another in our daily lives. its a negative emotion which is dormant within us,awaiting to flare up and take control over our lives when the occasion arises, ok thats it! God bless U! :)
@nancy555 (29)
• China
13 Feb 08
I am a pepperbox and easy to be angry too, furthermore i am completist, so if there are something done badly or comply with my demand, so i am going to ask the person repair it, you know there are some people who don't like others criticize their work, at this time i can't control myself and get angry, in fact i know there is no use to be angry, it can't bring any help to solve the problem, therefor please try the utmost to dominate your anger, don't let it go out,i was used to rip the useless paper into fragments, it's workable for me. maybe you can try it.
@lolalolacherrycola (899)
• United States
13 Feb 08
I think sleeping is just shutting it out. You sound depressed.
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@bonnieblue80 (77)
• United States
13 Feb 08
I don't know if you have ever heard this before, but to anger and to depress is a choice. We choose to feel those emotions.
Anger is the one emotion we are not taught to have. When we are born we are a little ball of frustration. As we grow up our desires are often frustrated, thus we get angry over having what we want thwarted.
As adults when we experience frustration, disappointment, and betrayal we continue to use our childhood response of angering. Our blood pressure rises, our fists clench, our teeth grit, and we want our way.
Depressing (I don't like to use the term depression because it makes it sound like we have no choice in the matter) is natural action. We learn to cope with things by ignoring them, or pushing them down in our psyche, thus depressing (just like a tongue depressor) our emotions. This can cause a build up of unresolved feelings and thus make us feel physically ill.
So how is it we have a choice in these things? Well, how we respond to external situations is a choice. We can either emotionally react, a childish response, or stop and think about what is happening and logically use reason to sort out the situation
When we are frustrated by other people we often say this person is "Making" us mad, or angry, or sad. This is faulty thinking, because no one can make us feel anything we don't choose to feel. As such we don't make other people feel things either.
When we feel an emotion if we feel we have no control over it, it is because we are emotionally reacting, rather than thinking about it. The thing of it is that we have full control over how we feel and we can choose to not feel that way.
Let's say your co-worker is not pulling their weight on a project. This behavior from your co-worker is going to create frustration in you mind. They are frustrating the whole project by not doing their part, and you begin to feel angry at them. The initial response might be to blow up at them, to give into the frustrated feelings and throw a fit. But this is not maintaining control over your emotions. If we take a deep breath and look at the problem with a logical eye rather than an emotional eye, we would see that we have several choices. Yes, their behavior is frustrating, but we can choose to either confront them calmly about their lack of work, we can choose to go to our boss and report it, or we can choose to pick up the slack--say nothing and depress the emotions we are feeling.
We have to confront the frustration in a reasonable and logical manner for us to not feel angry or depressed.
Let's take a quick look at internal issues we may choose to depress as well. Things like unhappiness in relationships, disappointment with ourselves, low self esteem, lack of self confidence...all these things are things we may choose to depress rather than deal with. This can lead to a chronic feeling of sadness and we often are not sure why we feel that way. But if we examine things like how we speak about ourselves, like saying "I'm so stupid, I'll never get it right, nothing ever goes my way, I am worthless." these things when internalized cause us to feel bad about ourselves.
In turn the more we depress our emotions the more likely we are to give into angering, give in to emotional outbursts, and give in to more depressing.
If we stop, look at what is going on around us, and say "I choose to not get angry about this but I will solve this problem." If we stop and think before we react to things we often can learn a new way of living.
Most times emotional reactions are simply habits. Thus it takes about 90 days to break an old habit. The more we use the same emotional response the more we create a groove in our brain causing us to continue to habitually react that way. To change this we must choose a different response every time we are faced with the same old frustrations.
You can do it. Sleeping will not solve anything. Sleep is actually the bodies way of dealing with the act of depressing. It is the body's natural way of repairing itself. This means you are mentally breaking your own body by inducing too much stress hormone. The stress hormones are produced when we become angry and low levels are produced when we continually choose to depress emotions. This can cause physical ailments, thus making us want to sleep.
To break the cycle you must look at what is wrong around you and how you are dealing with it. List the things that are frustrating you and see what is solvable problems...all things that you can't do anything about should be crossed off the list and pointless worrying. Then make a list of the things that are making you feel sad...see what can be fixed, then fix them...things that can't be fixed immediately should be put on a list for of ongoing things to be worked on, or thrown off the list as things you can't do anything about.
Then make a list of all the things that are good about yourself. Your strengths. And then on the back side list your weaknesses and how you can improve them. This will give you an idea of where your self esteem is as far as healthy or unhealthy.
If all else fails, go find a cognitive/behavioral psychologist for help.
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@marcello2win (1)
• Australia
7 Apr 08
Hi
my name is marcel
i get quite angry alot as i have had difficult childhood. I have been setting strategies for me to see and once i get angry u cant think the positive behaviour and keep on thinkin the negative behaviour. I tend to regret my behaviour but its such a big problem. I have been teased wen i was just a little boy and i think that made me do all these unacepptable behaviour.