Anger is a perfectly healthy human emotion. It’s only when that anger becomes uncontrollable that you start to experience problems. Constant or recurring anger uses a significant amount of energy and makes it difficult to think clearly in a given situation. When you’re angry all of the time, it also makes it incredibly difficult to actually enjoy life.
Read MoreGrowing up with a parent who has an addiction is an experience that leaves a mark on the person’s development. It can impact their identity, relationships, self-esteem, approach to parenting, attachment, and their perspective on alcohol use and substance use in general. Let’s examine what many adults face when their childhood experience was marked by a parent’s addiction.
Read MoreParenthood comes with a lot of challenges but one of the most daunting ones is coping with anger. When you have kids, it’s not always going to be sunshine, and experiencing frustration or anger at certain situations is a normal reaction. What matters, however, is the way we choose to cope with this emotion and how we can use it constructively rather than destructively.
Read MoreMen often use anger to mask vulnerability. People, and men particularly, get angry to cover the painful feelings of helplessness or worthlessness and convert them into feelings of power and control. Over time, some people develop a habit of transforming hurtful emotions into anger and self-harming behaviors to avoid dealing with them.
Read MoreThe idea of accepting our anger, especially for men, might be foreign, counterintuitive or just not helpful when it comes to doing something about it. In our culture, we tend to glamorize anger in movies, and then suppress it when we need to use it.
Read MoreIt’s common to harbor anger and resentment at others in your life, especially your partner. The problem with this is that anger eventually leaks out, and creates other problems.
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