Dealing with your anger

Anger can cause serious physical health problems like ulcers and heart disease. It can also make you act in ways that cause you to lose your job, or friends or break up your marriage. You can deal with anger as it happens and you can change your approach to life.

Feelings of anger are a normal reaction to some situations which are beyond your control. Sometimes, anger is an indication of too much stress. It is hard to know if you should just let your anger pass or if it needs more attention to get rid of it.

Anger is a serious problem requiring attention if it is:

constantly on your mind for weeks at a time and is making it impossible to enjoy life
caused by something that happened a long time ago
causing you to do spiteful things
making you act violently toward others or to yourself
interfering with your ability to do your job
hurting your relationships with family or friends.