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Analysing Anger

Measuring Anger

 

There are different degrees of anger:

Being slightly irritated or frustrated	Being cross or annoyed	Being mad	Flying into a rage

All of these degrees of anger are a bodily reaction to something that happens around us (an external event) and/or something that happens within us (an internal process).

Sometimes anger at a situation, person or thing can build from irritation or frustration to being cross or annoyed, being mad and flying into a rage.

At other times anger will instantly be shown as either irritation, frustration, being cross, mad or flying into a rage.

Anger only becomes a problem when it changes our personality, when we are unable to suppress it at inappropriate times or when it causes aggressive and destructive behaviour.  

 

Understanding how your body displays anger will help in developing coping strategies.

Try the following activity to measure your anger.

You will need to print off the worksheet by clicking on the Word icon below.

Write down ten situations and/or people and/or things that make you angry in these spaces on your worksheet.

 

Now place these ten items next to the thermometer on your worksheet.

10 should be the thing that makes you the least angry and 100 that which makes you the most angry.

 

Finally,  Place an I next to those items that are irritation, an F next to those that are frustration, a C next to those that are being cross, an M next to those that are being mad and an R next to those that are rage.

 

Then consider whether the degree of anger shown for each was appropriate.

For example:

If a situation made you fly into a rage, would it have been more appropriate to have been cross or mad?

 

 

 

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Anger Management Pages

Introduction  What is Anger?  Why Anger Happens  Personalities  Displaced Anger  Anger Diary  Analysing Anger  Controlling Anger Safely

 

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