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	<title>Better Relationships &#187; anger management</title>
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		<title>Should Anger Be Held In or Let Out?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2016 05:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Swaniger]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MEN'S ISSUES]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[anger in relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anger management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The answer falls somewhere in between these two extremes. Having to learn about our anger and what to do with it and when, demonstrates our difficulty in dealing with this powerful emotion. When our anger is expressed in a healthy way, we let others know the depth of our despair and disagreement over their choices, in such a way that doesn&#8217;t frighten or intimidate them. If our anger doesn’t get expressed in a healthy way, we can begin to brood and feel like a victim. If we hold it in long enough we risk turning it inward toward ourselves and becoming depressed. The longer we brood over our feelings, the more emotional pain we feel and the more we are sensitized to how others don’t respond to our inner feelings. Anger that is held in can also lead to passive-aggressive behavior. Here we express our anger in such a way that the other person is caught off guard and does not know how to respond to us. They can feel controlled or emotionally manipulated and may begin acting like this toward us or begin to pull away. This way of dealing with our anger is very damaging to our relationships. Some of us who hold our anger in eventually have an emotional explosion. A triggering event occurs which makes clear to us and to others just how hurt and angry we are and how little we believe that others care. While we want to feel that we are, at last, taking control of our hurt feelings, what happens is that we lose total control in an explosion of rage. Research now indicates that people who emotionally explode tend to get even angrier. And people with significant everyday hostility have been found to have more plaque in their arteries and less oxygen reaching their hearts so they have a greater risk of having a heart attack or stroke. The answer to the question &#8211; letting your anger out or keeping it in &#8211; has to do with first, accepting yourself even though you have angry feelings, secondly getting to know your [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Road Rage</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2016 20:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Swaniger]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Road rage incidents have increased 30% since 2010 and the time of year doesn’t seem to matter. In fact, the holiday season is ripe with frustrated and angry drivers so your chances of running into one is very much a reality. In general, fear of encountering or being injured by an enraged driver is a top concern of most drivers throughout the year. Although tougher laws exist for drunk drivers, the legal system has not yet made similar progress relative to drivers who use their vehicles to vent their anger. But the distinction is clear &#8211; road rage is a criminal act while aggressive driving is a traffic offense. The frightening thing about road rage is that any of us can become the victim &#8211; we can become the enraged driver or we can become the target. Road rage comes in many forms; blocking other drivers, aggressively tailgating, flashing headlights, verbal abuse and obscene gestures are just some examples. In the extreme, drivers have been assaulted with weapons and run over by vehicles. And violent driving has been found in every age group and in both men and women. People who resort to road rage feel endangered by another driver, such as a car following too closely. They feel vulnerable and threatened, and a natural reaction is to get angry. People can get angry when another driver is expressing his or her own road rage or when another driver breaks traffic rules or shows a lack of courtesy. The other driver is seen as anonymous, or, if one is angry, an enemy, and research shows that we feel freer to show aggression when the enemy is “faceless”. Know Your Anger Our society does not generally encourage us to learn how to handle our anger or how to defuse an aggressive situation. We often learn that anger is simply not to be expressed at all and when it is, we view it negatively. (For example, if you have a single angry outburst you might instantly be labeled as someone with &#8220;anger issues.&#8221;) The problem with this approach is that we don’t [&#8230;]]]></description>
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