Finding Your Calm: Effective Coping Skills for Anger
Carlos (Charlie) Gonzalez
You’ve probably found yourself in a situation where you felt angry. Your anger might have been directed at a specific person, or just at the circumstances. Also, you may or may not have gone on to act on that anger. One of the things that anger does is that it moves us to act. When you feel angry, it activates your body’s fight or flight response, which floods the body with stress hormones such as cortisol and adrenaline. Your heart rate and blood pressure go up. All of this gears you up to do something about the situation that may have provoked feelings of anger. Anger makes you want to...
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