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Is anger a major problem for society as this article seems to argue? Do you think the situation in Slovakia regarding this problem is better or worse than in the U.K.? What is to blame for an increase in anger-related incidents –more stress in society, childhood trauma, individual personalities, or a lack of good parenting? What should be done about it? Do you sometimes have trouble keeping your cool? Do you think an anger management class would help?
Anger is one of the most primal and complex feelings in the range of human emotions. When occurring only occasionally, it is neither good nor bad, however oneself can suffer from serious health problems if he has several daily anger outbursts. There are many people, such as Mary who are not able to control these outbursts anymore. Professional therapist claim to be the only people who can help in these cases. These specialists usually find out that behind the majority of anger problems are childhood traumas According to MR. Fisher, a specialist in the area, the anger outbursts are nowadays much more common also because of the beyond measure amounts of stress in our society.
ReplyDeleteAnger in extreme amounts can today be rather regarded as a psychological disease than as an emotion. There is even a name for it- regeaholism. The so called reagoholics are people who get excited b expressing rage, extreme anger with little or no provocation. Typically, family relatives of reagoholics are abused by this sort of behaviour, and eventually many families break up. There even more harmful side effects of anger outbursts, professor Rachel Rampel states that anger can contribute to development of arrhythmias and other cardiovascular diseases that turn out to be lethal.
After reading this article I have booked a health check at a cardiologist. In my opinion I am reagoholic since I rage very often, even because of silly things such as a maths exercise that is for me impossible to solve. I used to let out my anger outbursts at floorball, where I could swear, shout and smash my stick as much as I wanted. However I had to quit floorball because of IB this year. So instead of playing sports I now spend my free time studying and raging about all the useless and boring stuff I have to do. The matters get even worse when all my efforts are useless. In these cases my mom says that it is impossible to talk to me and that I am aggressive.
This is a complex issue with no clear answer, but based on my experience I think that investments into the sports infrastructure and longer holidays would be a much more effective solution than the over-priced therapies whose utility isn’t guaranteed at all.
This is a very interesting article showing what everybody sees, but not everybody understands as a lead to possible health problems. Anger is usually understood as an emotion. Being angry is very common and probably everybody has experienced it. As the article says, being angry can be dangerous for the person who is experiencing this emotion, as well as for many other people around the person. When a person is angry, he can act irrationally, without thinking and therefore are his actions not fully conscious. This is in fact also taken into consideration at court, when a person murders somebody in anger. Killing in anger is considered a smaller crime than a planned murder, because a planned murder is a conscious crime, but when killing in anger, the person doesn’t necessarily want to murder somebody. The person is just in an emotional state when he doesn’t control his actions consciously and therefore is not fully responsible for his actions.
ReplyDeleteBut how can one deal with uncontrollable anger? I think prevention can be one way to treat this problem. There is plenty of information on internet or in books for people who experience anger and are fully conscious of their problem. These people should not wait until their “rage addiction” reaches levels, when they are not capable of dealing with it on their own, but should try to solve their rage problem by themselves at first. When this is not successful, professional help might be needed. The article states that there is very little help for people experiencing uncontrollable anger. I think psychiatrists are professional help. They have been successful in dealing with angry people for decades, using the methods mentioned in the article – talking out and breathing exercises. However, they are mostly too expensive and not everybody is capable of paying for regular lessons and this makes them inaccessible for most of the people. A possible solution could be to include psychiatric therapies in the health insurance, leading to a slight increase in the price of the insurance, but major removal of the financial burden for the patient.
First of all, I think that wrong anger management is a very common and grave issue in today’s society. As the article mentions, people are not able to deal with stress very well and this often leads to releasing the anger in an inappropriate way.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, there really should be a medical option for people who tend to overreact, where they would learn how to control their temper and find a source of it. I don’t think it is wise to provide medical help only to the people who have committed crime before. If we allowed people who feel potentially dangerous or just want to be calmer, to get the treatment, we could actually prevent many accidents or crimes from happening.
Moreover, this is a problem worldwide due to the stressful jobs and hectic lifestyles that modern people have. I feel that people lost their ability to properly relax and unwind and therefore they also don’t know how to remain cool. Some sort of anger prevention centers could be established. There would be trained staff which would tell people how to handle stress and anger right and how to chill out effectively. Also as the article suggests, doing sports or any physical activity is very beneficial, therefore I assume that in jobs it should be obligatory to take part in team sports with other colleagues every day after work. It would also help the team in work and this would lessen the stress they get from their job as they would feel more comfortable.
However, I don’t know where the uncontrollable rage roots in people. Not even in myself when it takes over me. The girl in the article mentions her dead sister and not discussed issues with her mum as the cause. I am sure that this can be one reason why something like that forms in some individuals. In any case, it has to be dealt with professionally and shouldn’t be underestimated as the future effects can be often sadly violent.
@Alex:
ReplyDeleteI agree with you on some points you made about this topic. I, too, believe that uncontrollable rage outburst should not be underestimated even if not causing serious harm to anyone. But when you look at it from other point of view, who will go to a shrink from their own initiative? I do not think there is no possibility for such people to find medical help, I just believe that the physical or mental harm the rageaholics cause is the first signal to start thinking about the rages as a problem.
But I do not think it is a mystery, why people are angrier than ever. Everybody knows that lack of sport and physical activity contributes to worsening of mental health. And it is also no secret that today’s population is very inactive in terms of physical activity. However, unlike you, I do not think that obligatory sport activity at work would help solve the problem. When you make people do something like this, it tends to demotivate them more than motivate, as they do not like the feeling of losing control over their lives in any area, let alone this particular area. Still, sport tournaments at work could be organized and if they were supported in a proper manner, it could give many people incentive to take part in them, which could be minor, but still, a step to the rage prevention.