10 Types of Anger – You are feeling bad, you want to punch something, something inside you gonna like to explode. That mean you are angry. This is psychological phenomenon, everyone ever got this feeling even most stoic one.
But did you know that there are many different types of anger? Well there are 10 types of anger and today we’ll learn it. Only by learn your anger you can put control on it.
10 Types of Anger
Passive Anger
This type of anger doesn’t express itself as anger, instead it express in different form like sarcasm or unconscious action against the person you anger at.
This type of anger sometime didn’t easy to detect as you direct it into.
Volatile Anger
Volatile anger unlike passive anger quite easy to detect. This type of anger usually expressed verbally or physically towards person around you, so everyone know you are angry. This kind of anger is often explosive and unpredictable. It can easily out of control, leading you to say words or actions that you will immediately regret once the storm has passed.
Fear-Based Anger
Fear-based anger trigger by action someone you care. When people you love and care do things that could harm them self. Instead of scared you expressed your fear as anger.
This type of anger is not constructive way to express our feeling to someone we love, it’s better to tell them what you fear and let them know what they do will have negative consequences to them.
Frustration-Based Anger
Frustration-based anger triggered by failing expectation on something, it could be someone you love or your self. You might have high expectations and greatest hopes for those you love and when you see them failing to live up to what you think is their highest potential, you get disappointed and frustrated and turn into anger. This type of anger can be triggered internally like when you fail on something you feel you could achieve it.
Pain-Based Anger
This type of anger triggered by pain and sadness. When didn’t addressed correctly it will drag your life into guilt regret and loneliness. This anger usually last long and not easily healed without help from others.
Chronic Anger
This type of anger triggered when you need attention from people around you and express it in anger. In a moment people around you change their behaviors to accommodate you. You feel powerful and dominant.
But remember this kind of anger can be addictive, you will often burst in anger just to make others listen to you and in the long run people will get tired of you. They will eventually leave you, they will think you are hot temper who use his anger to control people around you.
Manipulative Anger
Manipulative anger has in common with chronic anger, use of anger to control people around. Manipulative person use anger to get what they want, often by shocking those around them into compliance. And just like chronic anger you will see negative impact on your relationship with other since they will think that you are hot temper and just manipulate them.
Overwhelmed Anger
Overwhelmed anger trigger by situation where you could hardly manage it. You get too much job at short time or you get too short deadline. You feel stressed, tired and overwhelmed. This combination eventually lead to anger.
Physiological Anger
This type of anger triggered by physical condition. You maybe too tired, haven’t got enough sleep or maybe your hormone is not in stable state.
Physiological anger can also be triggered for not taking proper care of ourselves, like failing to eat proper and nutritiously food, not exercising, or inability to handle stress properly.
Righteous Anger
Last type of anger is righteous anger. This is anger with a correct cause and the person could express it in correct way, usually by action. This anger happen when you see something wrong and you try to make it right by constructive action.
Bottom line
By knowing your type of anger you can correctly response and control you anger. This personal behavior if not addressed correctly could damage your relationship with people around you. You need to know what you feeling and express it in proper manner to make people around you understand what you feel and response accordingly.
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