What Happens When You Get Mad

Anger, whether uncontrolled or bottled up can be a dangerous emotion. You've heard the familiar phrase, “He was so mad he didn't know what he was doing.” Flying off the handle has caused countless highway accidents, injuries on the job, marital burst-ups, and homicides. Repressed anger has brought on psychosomatic asthma attacks, hypertension, migraine, colitis and a host of other real and imaginary illnesses. Studies conducted recently about anger have led to a number of provocative concepts. A bad temper is contagious. If a man has a hot-head, his children probably will be, too-in unconscious imitation or self-defense. Between the ages of 10 and 25, your irritability is at its lowest. Then, it steadily increases until from 40-60 your rage capacity is highest.


If you were to look into a mirror when you lose your temper, you would see yourself redden. The veins in your face, and temple swell. Instinctively your fists clench and you may be speechless. The toll of unmanageable anger is incalculable. Accidents are very often the result of individuals pouring out their hostility on their environment. Emotional causes of accidents are often deeply hidden in the private lives of workers.


That hidden ager creates or contributes to physical ailments. What sort of people tend to be hot-tampered? The higher up you go in the social scale, the greater the tendency to turn anger inward and become depressed instead of furious. A highly educated man may retain his anger but a truck driver may punch someone's nose.


Women fly into a rage about half as often as men do. That may be because men are more constantly exposed to situations and people likely to irritate them. This is due to the fact that women as a group are usually further up in the social scale than men. They are more civilized. They don't go out and fight wars.


Are redheads hot-tempered? Evidently that is a myth. Maybe they tend to live up to what the public believes about them. It is true, however that people in certain jobs- watchmakers, artists, opera stars-whose work requires utmost precision or whose egotism is easily wounded seem likely to have explosive tempers.


What is the safe way to treat your anger? Generally, it is best to blow off stream rather than keep it bottled up too long. Temper is an outlet to rid your systems of hates, grudges, and envy. Suppressed anger only builds up health-sapping tensions. But, while it is good to valve off pressure, you obviously should not go around displaying senseless rages.


Anger can also be a healthy emotion. The additional adrenalin released into your bloodstream almost triples your energy, which can be used as reserve power to jar you out of inertia. It is our fighting instinct, a wellspring of action. Anger is normal and we should expect it as part of reality.


When and how to bottle it up or discharge it is the dilemma of modern times. We should feel free to have emotions. And we should learn to understand and control them. Good Day!