Anger

Anger Management, and What Happens When Dogs Have No Productive Outlet for Their Emotions?

Anger Management, and What Happens When Dogs Have No Productive Outlet for Their Emotions? 2560 1539 Long Island Counseling Services

Anger is, in many ways, one of the strangest emotions we have as human beings. It is a common one, yet also frequently unproductive. Happy makes you feel good. Sad helps release tension and emotions. Even emotions like anxiety can help drive you to change. But anger rarely has a positive benefit. Some people believe it might help motivate people to change. Others feel like it offers some form of protection. But anger, especially sudden…

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Strategies for Dealing with Anger

Strategies for Dealing with Anger 150 150 Long Island Counseling Services

Feeling angry from time to time is natural, and it can even be helpful if you use anger to initiate a change that will prevent the situation that made you angry from occurring again. Instead, the problems with anger come from the response that you have to anger rather than the anger itself. When you feel anger or similar emotion, there are three ways in which you can process it – expression, suppression, and calming.…

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