Tis’ the Season to Be Jolly… or is it?
7 Signs You Need Anger Management Support
The holiday season is supposed to be a time of joy. But for many people, the stress of planning, hosting, traveling and seeing family can exacerbate challenges. If this time of year has you wondering whether you support, it might be time to call a professional. To learn more about whether you could benefit from therapy or an anger management support group, explore some of the common signs that you could use help with your anger.
When it comes to anger issues, it’s vital to know the signs when you could benefit from professional help in the form of individual therapy or an anger management class or anger management support group. Here are 7 Signs You Need Anger Management Class:
1. You Are Hurting Others Physically or Verbally
When you have anger issues, outbursts are prominent. If you have anger issues, you may find yourself unintentionally breaking things, physically assaulting people, yelling or berating others, or having temper tantrums. This negatively affects and hurts other people in your life. Most likely, it’s the people you love and the ones who are the most important to you. If your anger is in control or causes you to say or do things you later regret, take a stand and seek support in learning how to control your anger.
2. You are Haunted By the Past
Do you have a tendency to keep rehashing an incident that made you mad?. That’s an unproductive strategy, especially if you have already resolved the issue that angered you in the first place. In that case, you’ll likely feel frustrated with yourself. Ongoing resentment and perpetual irritation towards certain circumstances and other people can make you angrier.
3. Your Angry is Making you Physically Ill
We all get upset sometimes. But if you are experiencing physical symptoms like racing thoughts, shaking hands, tingling in your body, chest paints, heart palpitations or fast breathing while angry it may be time to seek professional help. Getting angry often or intensely can to anxiety, stress, and depression and high levels of stress hormones released during anger episodes can make you more susceptible to heart disease, insomnia, and high blood pressure.
4. Your Anger Makes Others Uncomfortable Around You
Anger can cause lasting scars in the people you love most and get in the way of friendships and work relationships. Explosive anger makes it hard for others to trust you, speak honestly, or feel comfortable and is especially damaging to children.
5. Your Anger Has Caused Problems At Work
If constructive criticism, creative differences, and group work cause you to respond with anger it can cause detrimental effects on your career by causing your colleagues, supervisors, or clients to not to want to work with you. These problems can plague your career.
6. Your Anger is Out of Control
While being angry may make you feel like you have the upper hand, or that when you are angry people around you finally listen. But, chances are that the people around you have learned to tune you out or are acting on the defense and are not in place to listen to what you are saying. When your anger is out of control you may say things you do not mean and do things that you would never so if you were thinking rationally. This can cause lasting problems for you in relationships, at work, and physically.
6. You Cannot Communicate Without Getting Uncomfortable or Angry
Some people with anger issues tend to hold in all their feelings until something sets them off and they can no longer control all of their thoughts. Or, on the other hand, some people can not control how they respond or what they say. A sign that you could benefit from anger management support is that you cannot communicate without getting angry. Professional help can teach you how to effectively communicate so you don’t hold it all in or blow up.
When Should I Get Professional Anger Help?
We all learn how to deal with our emotions and feelings in different ways. Sometimes we model how our parents dealt with problems. Sometimes we follow what is socially acceptable for our gender. But, if you having trouble coping with your anger you will never learn how to better deal with your anger unless you take an active role in your recovery.
In other words, if you researched “signs you need anger therapy” or “signs you need anger management” to find this article, then it’s probably time to find an anger management therapist online or near you.
Does Angry Management Work?
Yes, hundreds of research studies have explored the effectiveness of therapies for treating anger. Several large analyses of the published research suggest that overall, approximately 75% of people receiving anger management therapy improved as a result. The majority of research on anger treatment has focused on cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). In CBT, patients learn to identify unhelpful or negative thought patterns and change inaccurate beliefs. One CBT-based anger treatment is known as Stress Inoculation. This method involves exposing the person to imaginary incidents that would provoke anger, providing opportunities to self-monitor their anger and practice coping methods.
Once you’ve decided there are enough signs you need anger management and you want to give it a try, read these frequently asked questions about therapy. Whether you want to try online anger management support or find an anger management near you, there are many options.
Our team at the Thriving Wellness Center is also always happy to answer any anger management questions you may have. Whether you’re committed to the idea of trying therapy or you or your are not quite sure yet, we can help you figure out how to know if you need therapy and tell you more about the anger management process.
Please contact us to see how we can help you improve your life.