Anger Management
Control Your Emotional Outburst With Active Anger Management
Are you being tagged as an angry person? Or experiencing uncontrollable emotions? Anger, a regular human emotion, can cause mental health issues and can significantly impact relationships, studies, work, and general well-being.
Another Hope Counselling and Psychotherapy Service’s mission is to help you identify the root causes, triggers, and emotional outbursts, and address them. Join therapy with Adeola online nationwide—or in Leeds counselling, Greater Manchester therapy, the West Midlands, and Yorkshire.
What’s this approach to anger management?
At Another Hope Counselling and Psychotherapy Service, we hold a trauma-focused approach to Anger management for self-awareness and behavioural changes. In working with countless cases, anger, as a valuable emotion, is a way of communicating your sense of safety.
When one’s boundaries are crossed or violated, anger arises to protect oneself from further encroachment. But anger, along with unregulated emotions, can lead to poor decisions. Understanding your thoughts, how they align with your feelings, and how they impact body behaviour can empower you to take charge appropriately.​​
A therapeutic space - A rich resource
By working together, you are entering a welcoming, non-judgmental therapeutic environment where you can talk through what’s on your mind. This process can help you develop a compassionate understanding of what underlies your angry outbursts — pain, rejection, and more. These techniques have been of help to lots of people who regularly experience anger issues or have occasional outbursts. It can help you too.
Understanding anger can become very complicated -
Anger tends to affect physical and mental health, may negatively co-occur with trauma or anxiety, and affect career and relationships. When you are angry, your body goes into fight-or-flight mode, releasing adrenaline and cortisol, which can influence memory and limit your thinking.
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Anger can trigger various physical symptoms, such as increased heart rate, elevated blood pressure, and muscle tension. In time, chronic anger can lead to a weakened immune system, digestive issues and other damaging health issues.​​
Do you draw out a familiar Angry reaction?
Personal anger can manifest as overt or passive-aggressive behaviours in relationships, such as provoking angry responses from people who are not naturally inclined or motivated to react that way. Although unconscious, these actions can reflect deep-rooted rejection. They involve turning against others and oneself, engaging in self-sabotage and attacks, and sometimes experiencing unexplained irritation and negative thoughts. Such patterns may be connected to an unconscious, learned response to unmet needs arising from current or past experience.
A first step in managing anger is making space in thought to start observing your reactions to certain life events. It requires a gradual process of allowing yourself to develop new ways of viewing things and gently regulating the neural response. Everyone is worth an improved sense of self. Let’s meet and talk, and the quality of our connection can help you.
Behavioural symptoms of anger -
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Shouting
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Infuriated reactions
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Raising your voice
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Having arguments
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Hitting out or heightened aggressive behaviour
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Aggressive body posture
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Moving towards the source of anger
Various cognitive symptoms of anger -
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​​​​​Feeling easily temperamental and regretful
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Feeling overwhelmed
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Having difficulty focusing or concentrating
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Finding it difficult to manage your thoughts
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Having thoughts of hurting yourself or others
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Ruminating, catastrophising, and magnifying situations are all triggers of anger
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Micro or passive-aggressive behaviour
Do you feel anger is getting out of hand?
Here on offer are strategies from a trauma-focused approach.
It has helped several individuals, and can help you make sense of your thinking patterns and behaviours to create positive change.