Do You Control Your Anger or Does Your Anger Control You?
This is more of a choice than most people recognize.
Emotions come in a wide variety of sizes, shapes, and colors. They can be so small that they seem nearly invisible or so large that they seem unstoppable and overwhelming. Despite the idea that Star Trek’s Vulcans are emotionless, the truth is that they train tenaciously to tightly control their emotions.
One of the most dangerous traits of toxic positivity is the denial of negative emotions. Toxic positivity puts on blinders and actively works to avoid, ignore, and deny negative emotions. This does you a disservice, as the negative is just as important and necessary as the positive.
One of the most troublesome and infuriating emotions, at least for me, is anger. There are a lot of reasons why anger is especially complicated, not least of which is that it can manifest in such incredible, diverse ways.
The many faces of anger
How anger manifests in me is not the same as how it will manifest in you. There are lots of reasons why this is so. Some are environmental, some are interpersonal, and others are strictly self-inflicted or self-directed.
