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Anger
“Anger is empowering emotion
if used constructively”
Anger is a
natural emotion that is essential for our wellbeing. The physiological effects of anger provide
us with a boost of energy usually when we perceive a threat or challenge in
order to help us make a flight or fight response. However, anger can cause us difficulties
when it either becomes too frequent, too intense or when it lasts for too
long. Although it
feels as though we have an outburst for no particular reason, this is not the
case. There is always a trigger. Some event or comment will be perceived by
us as an attack, or will push our buttons because of some other event in our
past. This will then trigger the
physiological responses and we become angry. Anger causes us
to be stressed and the more stressed we are the more easily we become
angry. This can lead us into a
downwards spiral where we find we are constantly shouting, or losing our
temper. We tend to vent our anger in
relationships where we feel safe, so often our closest family suffers the
most. How can
counselling help?
A counsellor can help you to identify your particular trigger(s) and help you to understand why that event has such an impact on you. They can help you to see the event from a different perspective. They can help you to look at your core beliefs, for example if we think that all people should be polite we will be angry when someone is not. If, on the other hand, we can understand that people are too preoccupied, or distressed to be polite all the time, we will not get angry. A counsellor can also help you to explore how you could deal with the situations that make you angry more effectively. |
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