Anger

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Anger

• Eric Crenshaw

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What Is Anger?

• Anger is a normal, usually healthy, human
  emotion.
• We all know what anger is, and weve all felt it.
  This emotional state varies in intensity, from a
  small irritation to an intense fury.
• Like other emotions, anger causes physiological
  and biological changesyour heart rate and blood
  pressure rise, as does the level of your energy
  hormones, adrenalin and nonadrenalin .

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Why do we get angry?

• It varies for everyone, some people may be able
  to take a lot before they become mad, while
  others will become violent over the smallest
  thing.
• Our anger is often motivated by selfishness, a
  lot of people will lose their head if they don t
  get their way.
• Certain drugs and alcohol can also affect
  someones temper
• Someone s anger may be provoked by any one of
  numerous reasons it all depends on the person.

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How We Express Anger

• We usually express anger in the instinctive,
  natural way, which is responding aggressively.
• People express their anger in several ways. Some
  people may curse repeatedly, shouting at
  something or someone.
• Others may become very physical wanting to break
  something, or maybe break somebodys nose.
• Some people may just keep everything inside, this
  can create other problems for them socially.

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In the next few slides there are situations in
which people show their anger in several
different ways.
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Here we see someone that expresses their anger by
shouting, maybe even using foul language.
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This little girl is angry probably because she
didnt get her way.
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In these cases we see someone who shows his anger
through physical contact.
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In this situation a hand gesture is used to show
how he feels.
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In this slide there is a drawing from a cult or
gang, that implies that they have negative
feelings toward the police force.
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In this case anger may have gone a little too far.
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Is it O.K. to express anger?

• Anger is a natural, adaptive response to threats.
  This allows us to fight and defend ourselves to
  when attacked. Therefore a certain amount of
  anger is necessary for survival.
• But, we cant physically lash out at everything
  that annoys us. Laws and common sense place
  limits on how far our anger can take us.
• Expressing your angry in an assertive
  non-aggressive way is the healthiest way to
  show anger.

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Final Thought
There are many ways to show anger as you have
seen in this presentation. Anger is everywhere.
It is a very large, but normal part in everyones
lives. Some people just express it more deeply,
or more easily than others.