linked to diabetes, arthritis,
bursitis, high blood pressure,
high cholesterol, chronic fatigue,
chronic pain, migraines, skin
disorders, digestive disorders,
and heart disease. It has even
been said to be a possible
precursor to cancer. Let’s not
forget, the anger itself is not the
primary emotion. It is a response
to an emotion that first occurred.
The key is to find out where the
anger originated from to begin
with.
Henry Kellerman, Ph.D.
advises how anger leads
to
psychological/emotional
symptoms. He stated, “When
anger is repressed (turned
inward), it will attack the self.
When you repress the anger, it
will attack you and it will force
you to have a symptom, whether
you like it or not. Therefore
again, anger searches for a ‘who’
in order to attach to that person.
In the case of repressing the
anger, you become the ‘who’.”
He encourages his patients to
become a “detective” and try to
identify who made you angry
initially so you can begin to work
toward resolution of that anger
problem.
Since the anger came after the
first emotion, it’s likely someone
hurt you, disappointed you,
in other words, they did not
meet your expectations. But for
whatever reason, we don’t want
to be vulnerable and admit, “I
feel hurt,” or “I feel rejected.” It’s
expressed can manifest by too embarrassing to have to say,
attacking the body in the form “I’m jealous of you.” To us, that
of illness. The body only knows looks and feels powerless. So in
it’s stressed, the brain doesn’t order to feel more powerful, we
make the connection to anger turn to anger.
When we don’t effectively
or other issues. It’s up to us as
express the anger, we hold it
individuals to pay attention to
what our bodies are telling us. inside. However, as we have
Unresolved anger has been seen, anger cannot be contained.
Millions of Americans visiting
the doctor, taking prescription
medications,
and
checking
into hospitals are doing so due
to illnesses that are probably
caused by unresolved anger.
It’s possible they are completely
unaware of it. It’s also possible
they are aware the anger is
there, they’re just not willing
to admit to it. They realize that
admission of an anger problem
will likely result in having to do
the work necessary to fix the
problem. Most of us just don’t
have the tools necessary to do
this.
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