Awesome Tips To Control Your Anger!

Your anger could be hurting your health. Don’t let it get the better of you.

Anger is a universal, natural, and sometimes useful emotion. It can lead a person to take action against injustice or to defend others against it. It can fuel political campaigns and social change.

Yet anger also inflicts suffering, as you would know if you’ve ever dealt with outbursts from a colleague or family member.

A large body of research supports the idea that the chronically angry, especially people forced to suppress their anger routinely, are at risk for stroke and other forms of cardiovascular disease, and poorer overall health.

What Anger Can Trigger

The word ‘anger’ comes from the root ‘angh,’ the same root as ‘angina,’ the chest pains caused by blockage of the coronary arteries. When you get angry, your face flushes, your blood pressure rises, and the level of stress hormones (adrenaline and cortisol) rises in your bloodstream. All of this is a normal reaction, but if it happens all the time, it can have detrimental effects on your health.

Many studies, including the famous ‘Framingham Heart Study’, suggests that people with hostile, aggressive personalities – those who frequently get angry – are more likely to have coronary artery disease, including heart attacks.