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[Ashley Hicke]

How do you deal with anger management? Sometimes it feels like my brain has no control over my words/actions when I am angry. Is there anything that you have discovered is helpful to calming yourself down and dealing with anger in a productive way, rather than hurting yourself or others?

[Susan Liu]

+1 to the above.

I ask myself if I will care about the thing I’m angry about 10 years in the future. Even though it can be so hard, I try to remove myself from the negative situation and distract myself with hobbies

 

I’m still practicing letting things go everyday, so it isn’t foolproof, but it’s a start

[Andrea Lopez]

I am currently in the process of trying to get a grip on my anger, so I don’t have any kinds of tips but from recent experience, I have been taking deep breathes and walking away (if possible in the situation) when I feel I am becoming enraged. I know it sounds too simple, but it really does make a difference. I also have been trying to apply what Susan said about telling myself if this will matter in a couple of years. Although, I will admit I’m not quite there yet at times.

 

[Gabriel Mayeden]

One way to control anger is to use the anger meter which runs from a scale of 1-10 with 1 being minimal intense of the anger stage and 10 representing intense anger. When one encounters a provocative event, the anger starts from low intensity and progressively run up the scale. Learning a coping mechanism to control the anger so that it doesn’t escalate to 10 can prevent the negative consequences that emanate from being angry. The strategy I use to control my anger is to take slow deep breathes with full concentration on my breath than anything else.

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