Anger Management for Adults

While some adults are mandated by the courts to participate in an anger management program, most seek such help on a voluntary basis. Although anger can be a positive motivating force if channeled properly.  For example anger can serve as a motivating force to make positive change.  Anger can be a signal for discomfort.  Anger can be a defense mechanism in dangerous situations. Our flight and fight reactions are designed very intricately in the brain as sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems to help survival.  As a guide, anger was designed as a sympathetic nervous system response to help us change our situation or setting.  However in life, many behaviors are formed as a result of learning and learning can be both positive and negative.  If you ever grew up with angry parents, or care takers, or otherwise long-term angry co-habitants or co-workers, you are unfortunately in a negative learning environment.  On the other hand, unresolve feelings about events in the past, can also be a precursor for aner.  And both of these types of anger, more often than not can be quite destructive. To those the individual is faced with, anger is a very threatening reality.  In spite of the individual’s best intentions, an angry individual both at work and at personal settings comes across as irrational, disruptive and a liability.