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Is it better to be angry than sad?
Anger and depression are both unhealthy, but one will help you feel better faster than the other. Anger makes you get up! Both anger and depression are low vibrational emotions on the scale of consciousness, but anger is a high vibrational emotion compared to the vibration of the things you feel when you are depressed.
How can I be angry in a healthy way?
Start by considering these 10 anger management tips.
- Think before you speak.
- Once you’re calm, express your anger.
- Get some exercise.
- Take a timeout.
- Identify possible solutions.
- Stick with ‘I’ statements.
- Don’t hold a grudge.
- Use humor to release tension.
Why do I get angry when im hurt?
People change their feelings of pain into anger because it feels better to be angry than it does to be in pain. This changing of pain into anger may be done consciously or unconsciously. Being angry rather than simply in pain has a number of advantages, primarily among them distraction.
Why is anger the easiest emotion?
In his book “Emotional Intelligence,” Goleman tells us that anger causes blood to flow to our hands, making it easier for us to strike an enemy or hold a weapon. Our heart rate speeds up, and a rush of hormones—including adrenaline—creates a surge of energy strong enough to take “vigorous action.”
Is it possible for sadness to turn into anger?
Now sadness is out of the box and anger will have a much harder time taking over. Always express sadness as sadness, not anger. Normally when sadness becomes anger it is because you are worried about what others think or say. “Damn, this makes me sad” will go a long way toward averting anger.
How do you know when it’s time to feel sad?
Once some of the energy has subsided, ask yourself what you’re sad about. Usually something specific—and quite often completely unrelated to the thing that caused you to be angry in the first place—pops in. Once you’ve accessed the trigger of your sadness, it’s time to feel sad.
Why do we get angry?
When not experienced as a secondary emotion (more on this shortly), anger occurs as a result of being a part of or witnessing a wrong. If we or a loved one are in harm’s way, the energy we call anger wells up, leading to two things: (1) an often laser-like focus on the wrong occurring and (2) increased energy to do something about it.
How do you track your anger with depression?
How anger works with my depression is still a new idea to me, but according to my mood calendar, they sync up. I track anger using the “PMS” button and sad face button in Clue, a period app. (PMS on my app is depicted with a hurricane and lightning bolts.