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If you or a loved one have been experiencing Anger issues, it is important for you to know that treatment options are available.
We connect you with Licensed Clinicians who match your needs and goals.
Your Clinician performs a thorough evaluation and develops a personalized treatment plan.
Your Clinician maintains proper level of care through therapy sessions, medication management, and self-care practices as needed, while staying connected with your support system.
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Healthy Versus Unhealthy Anger?
Anger is a normal part of life, but there are major differences between healthy and unhealthy anger. As a starting point, an individual needs to identify whether or not their anger is healthy to determine whether or not they need anger management. People who experience anger that interferes with their quality of life or destroys relationships, jobs, and friendships may require anger management intervention. Many healthy people experience anger on a regular basis. It helps people process traumatic events and even small, everyday problems. When someone has an excess of uncontrolled anger, however, they may have an anger disorder. Anger disorders are often comorbid with other untreated mental disorders.
Getting to Know Anger Management
On one level, anger management involves techniques that help you control your temper and remain calm in triggering situations. On a deeper level, it is a way to understand that anger is a normal part of life but that you need to deploy it more constructively and effectively.
What Are the Symptoms of an Anger Disorder?
Unhealthy anger comes in many forms, not just in violent outbursts as many expect. While many people with anger disorders act out through yelling and physical violence, anger disorders can also come out in passive ways. Patients who experience passive disordered anger may engage in self-destructive actions, excessive sarcasm, or apathy. Given the violence inherent to some anger disorders, there are often victims who suffer at the hands of those with this mental health issue. While disordered anger is a symptom of a disease, victims should seek help for themselves and not use the disease to excuse the person’s actions against them.
- Suppressed rage
- Constant focus on the negative
- Acting out violently
- Engaging in destruction of property
- Threatening others
- Driving recklessly
- Arguing with others constantly
- Heightened irritability
- Forcing others to tread carefully
Anger Management Therapy Options
There are several types of therapy that can help those with an anger disorder. While some patients may benefit from one, others may benefit from participating in several different therapies.
In individual therapy, patients with disordered anger can work to uncover the triggers of their anger. Comorbid disorders such as depression and anxiety can also be addressed. When anger stems from an emotional disorder, a psychiatrist may recommend medication as a supplement to therapy.
In group therapy, individuals share their experiences with disordered anger. A therapist leads the session, guiding the conversation and providing coping strategies for the group to consider.
Residential treatment is necessary sometimes when people with an anger disorder have dangerous symptoms such as suicidal ideation. A patient receiving inpatient treatment stays in a facility and is monitored closely by a medical team.
Online Treatment Options for Anger Management
Patients who are unable to come into LifeStance’s offices for therapy or psychiatric treatment can consider getting help via telehealth. This HIPAA-compliant process gives patients a private, secure way to engage in therapy from the comfort of their own homes. LifeStance provides the software needed, and the patient accesses each session via a personal computer from a private setting in their home.
Anger FAQ
One of the basic human emotions, anger is a triggered response to annoyance, displeasure, or hostility that typically arises when someone feels threatened, attacked, wronged, or rejected.
Feelings of anger arise based on how we interpret and react to the situations we encounter. Everyone has their own particular triggers for anger that they have developed during their lives.
Yes, anger is a secondary emotion. This means that anger happens after we feel primary emotions like fear or sadness, which then leads to feeling the secondary emotion of anger.
Genetics can play a role in having anger issues. However, it is hard to separate behavior that we learned from our families with behavior that we inherited because of the genes we share.
When someone becomes angry, they are using a structure in the brain’s limbic system called the amygdala; the part of the brain associated with emotions such as fear, anxiety, and anger.
