How do you control your anger?

According to the dictionary, anger is a strong emotion excited by a real or supposed injury. Other words of explaining the feeling is annoyance, displeasure, ill temper, rage or resentment.

I for one tend to treat anger as a small case of depression, with a tendency to eat ‘good mood’ food. In my case this will basically be anything in the line of chocolates, nuts and fast food that I would normally cut out of my diet.

Luckily for me, I truly don’t get angry very often. Seeing that the first time I experienced the feeling of anger was in standard 7 when one of my best friends disappointed me with the wrongful decisions she made, hearting me in the process. I was very sad at the beginning, not eating at all, and later lead to being angry at her, where I began healing myself emotionally through the use of food.

I feel that we often make the mistake of misinterpreting our feeling of disappointment, heartache and sadness with anger.

All humans do get angry at some stage in there lives, some even more then others, but it is how we deal with our anger and learn to control it that makes us different from the rest.

Some people will react by driving irresponsible losing respect for themselves and everyone around them, consuming large amounts of alcohol, swear and use aggression to make them feel better.

I tend to keep my feelings to myself, not let it affects my relationship with others and only confide in close relatives to talk about it and get advice in handling the situation.

I will ignore the person, I am angry at, until they come and apologize to me. I easily forgive and will make an extra effort in fixing the relationship as soon as everything is talked out.

No one is perfect and I believe how you manage your anger has a lot to do with your upbringing, your age and gender, everything has little impact and can influence the way we think and react to different situations.

As we grow older we gain life experience. Experience of dealing with different situations, helping us develop, improve and learn to handle things in a better way just as long as we are willing to except our mistakes and try to fix things, striving to constantly improve ourselves as humans to become the best that we could be.