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Name what kind of anger it is and you have usually named the fear as well. Each sort of anger points at something the person is trying not to lose.
That is the practical use of sorting anger into types. It turns a vague, hot presentation into something specific to work on: this one is about being…
Some anger is disappointed idealism. You expected better of people, or of the world, and the gap between how things should be and how they are comes out as indignation.
You can spot it by the moralising. The sentences are about what people ought to do rather than about what you needed from them. Breathing exercises…
The hardest anger to put down is the kind that feels morally correct. It arrives with a rush of certainty and the sense of being on the right side, and that combination is very hard to argue with.
You see it in political rows, online arguments, and anywhere a cause is involved. The difficulty is that two rewards are stacked together: the charge…
Two people can be equally angry and need opposite help. One goes off quickly and it is over, the other never raises their voice and is still going three days later.
The difference is not how hot it gets but what happens afterwards. For the quick one, the work sits in the seconds before it goes. For the slow one,…
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