If you are having difficulty controlling your angry outbursts beyond a normal, healthy manner you may have a problem with anger management issues. If your behaviour has become destructive towards yourself or others you could well benefit from anger management therapy.

Anger management therapy is the method by which somebody with too much or uncontrollable anger can control or reduce the causes, scale, and consequences of an angered emotional state.

Learning how to articulate your anger in a more assertive, but not aggressive, way is a successful method to deal with your angry emotions yourself. Counselling can also help you to do this. You will be able to express what you want without hurting other people’s feelings and is a good healthy way to re-channel your anger.

Diverting your mind from anger can also be very useful in anger management. Hard physical activity such as running or playing a tough game of squash will control your anger. Breathing and relaxation techniques such as yoga or meditation are very helpful. When you are angry try slowly breathing in through nose, lifting your diaphragm, and after a while breathe out through your mouth. You will feel immediately calmer.

Other self-help methods are to laugh (yes it really does help), changing your environment to remove the source of anger and talking to somebody about your feelings. It is also helpful to realise that getting continuously angry is not going to solve or ease the problem.

Some people may prefer to seek professional anger management therapy if the methods of self-control are not effective enough. Cognitive Behavioral Therapies are often used for this purpose.

The aim of anger management therapy using CBT is to stop people acting rashly in anger and first consider their actions, possible reasons for them and look into the feelings they experience when excessively angry. In both individual and group counselling this is done by recording the reasons and feelings and the next step is then to go on to analyse them in order to control their destructive behaviour.

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