Anger+ No Control= Anger Management

Did you know that anger can create and contribute to Heart Disease? Well, it does. Anger comes in many different forms and styles. You can always see the signs when someone is angry. Whether it is a best friend that is simply upset about too much homework or a student that freaks out at the teacher day after day because of problems at home. Anger is a problem that every single person goes through. Just for the record, though, not all anger is a huge traffic-stopping problem. You need to let your feelings out sometimes but you need to know how to control it to a certain extent. Anger is what’s called a Secondary Emotion which basically means it’s caused by something that happened or is happening. It could be set off by anything you can imagine, depending on the person. Some possible triggers are stress, fear, worrying, negative thinking or abuse. Kathy Garber said “Anger is a learned behavior. We imitate how others handled anger.” This quote is especially proved in Ironman because Bo’s father was what you would call and extremely angry man and that came out in Bo. Nowadays, there are many more abuse cases, thus more angry people, in my opinion. Anger is present in our communities everyday. We just need to learn how to take action to keep that anger under control. If we do this, many people’s lives would be much easier.
Not all people show their anger right up front. Many keep it tucked away, only to release it in outbursts or a diary. Anger Management is attended so that you can learn how to control that anger. The instructors want to teach positive ways to release it without hurting others. This is very important to the people around you. No one can feel safe if there is pure anger bottled up inside the person sitting next to them. I think that people have a sense that can tell what different emotions are occurring in someone walking by. You can even look at the way they walk. A lot can be interpreted by looking at the way someone walks. Anyway, back to Anger Management. When Bo goes to his first class, he is very nervous and is experiencing quite a bit of apprehension. He thinks that all the people in the class are going to be bone-crushing mob members that want to eat him. That’s not a surprising stereotype but it is usually a wrong one. Just like him, they had past problems that made them act the way they did. I’m not saying that they shouldn’t take responsibility for their actions, just that situations in the past, like abuse, could have helped contribute to the angry outbursts. That is another aspect of Anger Management. During your course, you are taught to not over-react. Acting spontaneously can cause you to have some serious regrets. I think that anyone who truly needs Anger Management should have it offered to them. I don’t, however, think that a murderer should just get out by promising to attend anger management classes. Murder could be one of the effects of bottled up anger which is why Anger Management is so important. Angry people could definitely be a threat towards everyday, normal people. Also, Pauline Wallin said, “Research shows that among all the risk factors for heart disease, chronic anger is the most significant predictor -- more than smoking, obesity and high blood pressure.” Like I said before, anger can come in many forms. The more important thing to think about is how you are going to control and deal with your own anger.