Aggressive Response Triggers More Road Rage
According to new research published by the Response Insurance Company: Fully one-half of drivers who are subjected to aggressive driving behavior on the road respond with aggression of their own, thus risking a more serious confrontation. when a driver gets the finger, is cut off or tailgated, 50% of the victims respond with horn honking,…
Anger Tip-Spend Time With Buddies
Let’s face it, your family can’t satisfy all your needs all the time. So, it’s smart anger management to indulge in a boys night out or a girls night out. You relax and unwind in different ways when you socialize with members of the same sex. You can talk more openly than you do in…
Anger Tip- Don’t take sides
You may have noticed that your friends – or relatives – often try to enlist you on their side in conflicts they have with other people. Getting caught in the middle can be VERY stressful for you. Stay neutral, if you can, in office politics, family squabbles and interpersonal bickering. It’ll save you a world…
Road Rage Website Bad idea
Want to give an “award” to a good driver? How about warning a driver that his/her driving is rude or dangerous? Maybe you just want to flirt with someone you saw on the road. Perhaps you want to report to someone that something is wrong with their vehicle which is causing a physical hazard. All…
The AngerCoach Show – Episode 2 Aggressive Driving & Road Rage
This month’s episode deals with aggressive driving and road rage. Aggressive driving not only endangers people’s lives, but puts immense stress on our relationships with others. We talk about practical ways individuals can reduce stress and calm down while on the road, as well as ways of mitigating road related disagreements. We host Dr. Leon…
Anger can be NEW or OLD
One of our students found herself “going bananas” after a guest innocently left a gate open after leaving her house. Why the extreme reaction, we wondered. Turns out that she had a “history” with open gates. At age 6, her brother accidentally left a gate open which caused her favorite dog to escape and unfotunately…
Memories Depend on Focus
We teach our anger management students that often anger is generated by arguments with someone reagrding what happened in the past. As you probably know, two people (like a parent and child, or, two siblings) may have the same experience but remember it in quite different ways. Why is this? Often we suspect that the…
Angry Mom Kills Child
The costs of uncontrolled anger are high, as illustrated in the following tragic story reported in the 11Alive.com website in Atlanta: “Atlanta police said a Fulton County woman confessed to killing her 2-year-old daughter during a fit of anger. Investigators said 29-year-old Shandrell Banks told police that she became frustrated when her daughter, Nateyonna, would…
Looking For Aristotle Awards Nominees
It was Aristotle who said: “Anyone can be angry, that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right reason, and in the right way, this is not easy.” In this tradition, we are looking for nominees of people who have faced anger…
Reduce Anger by Asserting Yourself
This holiday season, you may find yourself in groups or gatherings that make you feel uncomfortable. Sometime you can change it without offending anyone, yet standing up for our rights or opinions. We call this “assertive communication.” When the tone of a social gathering becomes too confrontational, negative, lewd, insensitive, prejudiced, or otherwise distasteful, you…
Startlines can reduce stress
Forget about deadlines. How about startlines? For a society so obsessed with when a project gets finished,we’re curiously all too casual about when to get it started. And that can be the most critical factor of all. Which may explain why so many deadlines aren’t met. Instead of stressing over when something is due, focus…
Anger Detection Software Now Available
Often, anger is communicated in non-verbal behaviors such as voice tone, voice energy, and voice volume. Now, they have developed software to detect the emotion of anger by analyzing one’s voice. Reminds one of the computer HAL in Stanley Kubrick’s classic 2110: a Space Odyssey As reported in Life Science, Sigard, a new software package…
Anger At Work Linked To Stress
Some people say they know just what to do when their jobs becoming too stressful, but others feel stuck and frustrated. There are tears and confrontations which can lead to poor productivity, abuse of sick days, stealing supplies, and irritability or depression. Sometimes the stress and anger are due to home problems which the employee…
Road Rage to Work Sets Negative Tone For Day
A new survey puiblished by CareerBuilder.com confirms what we have suspected for a long time: most commuters admit to experiencing road rage while traveling to and from work. This may include yelling, horn-honking, and hand gestures which give your estimation of the IQ of the other driver! The survey, based on more than 2200 workers…
Anger In Home Affects Children
In a recent letter to “Dear Abby,” a distraught woman wrote that her Asian husband recently lost a great deal of money in the stock market resulting in “…the negativity in our house is so bad that even our kids don’t want to be in the same room as their father. I have considered divorce,…
A Case Of Turkey Rage
News item: “27-year-old Vermont resident Steven J. Lapre is claiming that he is being made an example of after being accused of running over and killing a wild turkey as he was driving to his anger management class. He asked at his arraignment, “How many citations do they hand out for all the dead deer…
Anger Control in Sports
News Item: “The Tennessee Titans are requiring Albert Haynesworth to continue anger-management counseling he started during a five-game NFL suspension for stomping the face of a Dallas Cowboys opponent. Haynesworth worked out at the team’s headquarters Monday, the first day he was eligible to return. The Titans will allow him to rejoin the team at…
The AngerCoach Show
In this first Episode of the AngerCoach Show, we highlight some practical ways to apply anger management tools in your life. Every month we will be offering new and viable tips and exercises for individuals seeking to offer help to loved ones, friends or who are interested in their own personal development. In addition to…
Aggressive Driving Has High Costs
News item: “A 32-year-old Payson man learned that lesson the hard way Sunday. He was driving down a street in Orem (Utah) with his wife and children when he exchanged angry words with a local man. The Orem man pursued the family and tailgated their Chevy Suburban. In the heat of the moment, the Payson…
Michael Richards – An Angry Man
Michael Richard claims that his recent rant in response to hecklers at his night club act was about anger…not racism. He said later on the Dave Letterman Show that he went into a “rage” which he couldn’t explain. This is very believable to us (the racism issue aside) as we hear similar stories from many…
Anger May Trigger Heart Problems
If you have heart problems and are on a ventricular fibrillator, try to stay calm! Boston researchers are reporting that bursts of anger may trigger potentially fatal heart rhythm disturbances. The hotter the temper, the higher the risk appears of ventricular fibrillation. “The old conventional wisdom is that, if you know someone has a heart…