Anger Management
Control Your Emotional Outburst With Active Anger Management
Are you being tagged as an angry person? Or experiencing uncontrollable emotions? Anger, as a regular human emotion, is not necessarily negative. But it can be harmful, triggered by, or cause underlying co-occurring mental health issues, significantly impacting relationships, studies, work, and general well-being.
At Another Hope Counselling and Psychotherapy Service, we aim to help you understand the root cause of anger and what triggers your response and find a healthy way to address your feelings when experiencing an uncontrollable emotional outburst. I offer counselling and therapy in Greater Manchester, West Midlands, Yorkshire, and the Humber.
What is anger management?
Anger management refers to recognising, understanding, and controlling your anger to express it appropriately. It can involve learning how to communicate your feelings healthily and constructively rather than allowing your emotions to control you, resulting in negative behaviours, harm and loss.
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Another Hope Counselling and Psychotherapy Service offers a space to hear you and patiently walk with you through to help you compassionately understand what underlies your angry outbursts, which can be pain, rejection and more. I offer anger management therapy and techniques helpful for people who experience anger issues regularly or have occasional outbursts.
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You can observe your responses to immediate life events and if your anger is co-occurring with trauma or anxiety. Sometimes, it is a response to underlying unmet needs in childhood experiences. It can require developing new learning to re-regulate the weakened parasympathetic neural responses underlying anxiety and traumatic experiences.
Dealing with anger can become very complicated -
Anger tends to negatively affect physical and mental health, career, and relationships. When you are angry, your body goes into fight-or-flight mode, releasing adrenaline and cortisol, which influences memory and is limiting.
Personal anger can express itself in aggressive behaviour or turning inward against oneself in annoyance, self-attacks, and negative thoughts.
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Anger can trigger various physical symptoms, like 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. Everyone is worth an improved sense of self.
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
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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, all triggers anger
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Micro or passive-aggressive behaviour
It might feel like your anger is getting out of hand. To help you feel more in control, strategies on offer draw upon Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT),
Internal family systems, psychodynamics, and other therapies as needed.
My approach has helped several individuals, and it can
help you learn to explore and make sense of your
thinking patterns, behaviour, and responses to create positive changes.