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What are the Effects of Anger on Ourselves?
What are the Effects of Anger on Ourselves?
Most of the time, it is normal (even healthy) to have this emotion. However, when you allow anger to take control of you, it becomes a destructive force which may eventually produce problems for you in your social life, at work, and for your quality of life. If you find that you are becoming a person who is chronically angry, you will notice that people will tend to avoid you more. You become an unpleasant force to deal with and perhaps eventually no one will want to interact with you anymore. But it is not all your fault - the types of feelings you have are often influenced by how people relate to you, not just by how you relate to others. As it says in this love song, "Love is a two-way street." Well, so is anger, if you really think about it. If someone gets angry with you, your natural response is to become defensive. (However, you have a choice as to how to express that kind of anger.) When you get angry, you will find yourself experiencing a range of physiological and biological changes. Your heart rate and blood pressure will increase. Your energy hormones (adrenaline and noradrenaline) will also shoot up. Your muscles become tense. You become short of breath and may get heart palpitations. Your senses are heightened (though sometimes they are dulled.) Often, there is yelling; vigorous and larger-than-life body movement; and stiffness of posture. In some people there may be constipation and even impotence. Other physical signs of anger are: contraction of pupils; higher levels of physical strength; quicker and more powerful speech and motion. Psychological signs of anger are: sleeplessness, apathy, anxiety, depression, malaise, condemnation and judgmentalism of others, self-loathing, low self-esteem, insecurity, jealousy, envy, resentment or bitterness, passive-aggressive behavior, silence, irritation, and criticism. On the emotional side, when we become angry, we suffer afterwards from the feeling that we are guilty, failures, depressed, very agitated, and severely enraged. Some might attempt suicide. And of course, we know now that there is a direct link between people who are chronically angry and the onset of hypertension and heart disease in such people.
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