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Anger is deadly. And when it is expressed towards others, can quickly
escalate into homicide. In fact, most cases of murder are due to an
uncontrollable resentment toward someone else.
Even unexpressed anger has lethal side effects. It can escalate into all
sorts of worse mental aberrations and unpleasant life experiences.
Anger, expressed or unexpressed, can ruin your life. It can kill you or
someone else. It is not something that you should mistake for a mere
character flaw.
Even at lower levels of hostility, anger can cause major upsets. It can
ruin your mental and physical health over time, and
it definitely ruins
all your relationships. Eventually, it can even hurt you financially,
create substance abuse, or involve you in a deadly accident.
Anger is nothing short of a brief insanity. After your rage has passed,
you are looking at some form of devastation. During your episode of
anger, you literally lost your mind—your bodily sensations completely
overwhelmed any sense of intelligence.
We laugh when we watch movies like “Anger Management.” Yet the final
joke may be on us if we permit anger to control us. Unless we take care
of our anger it is going to ruin our lives.
Anger, like suicidal depression, is a mental illness. It is a brief loss
of reason, an overwhelming desire to strike out and hurt someone, a
manic lust for revenge at any cost. Like any mental illness, it needs
immediate attention.
If one is subjected to
uncontrollable bursts of rage, then this needs
professional intervention. A professional healer will help you identify
and remove the traumatic conditions that have upset you. Some of them
may be so deep-rooted that you are even unconscious about them.
If anger is merely due to high-levels of stress, anxiety, and
frustration, then a course of stress-relief is necessary. There are many
books on how to reduce your stress through such simple measures as
taking walks, having hot baths, getting a massage, doing deep breathing,
visualization, exercising, listening to soothing music, or taking on
some form of spiritual practice.
It takes a great deal of effort to build anything—a business, a
relationship, or a life—but it takes a few outbursts of anger to have
everything collapse into ruin. Can you really afford to take for granted
an emotion that can result in either utter failure or death?
By
Saleem Rana
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