What is Anger? Generally, people tend to view anger as one of our strongest and most powerful emotions. Anger is a natural and "automatic" human response, and can in fact, serve to help protect us from harm.
Psychologists say that love is the strongest emotion. Humans experience a range of emotions from happiness to fear and anger with its strong dopamine response, but love is more profound, more intense, affecting behaviors, and life-changing.
Anger is one of our most primitive emotions, and it is there to protect us. Anger can trigger the body's fight or flight response, helping us to fight or flee from danger. It alerts us that something's “up”. Anger isn't the “bad guy” – it's simply looking out for us.
Fear. This is the strongest of them all. It's said to have twice the effect of pleasurable emotions. Fear doesn't have to be explicitly expressed to get its full effect.
Fear and Anger as Motivators
Both fear and anger motivate us, with fear being more powerful in doing so.
Like other emotions, it is accompanied by physiological and biological changes; when you get angry, your heart rate and blood pressure go up, as do the levels of your energy hormones, adrenaline, and noradrenaline.
Many people say that one of the most difficult emotions to handle is anger. Anger can weaken your ability to solve problems effectively, make good decisions, handle changes, and get along with others. Concerns about anger control are very common.
Anger is a secondary emotion
Typically, we experience a primary emotion like fear, loss, or sadness first. Because these emotions create feelings of vulnerability and loss of control, they make us uncomfortable. One way of attempting to deal with these feelings is by subconsciously shifting into anger.
Love is a powerful force because it drives, directs, navigates, and gives meaning to our existence. While hate encourages loneliness, love forbids it. While hate undermines individuality, love strengthens it. Incredible acts of giving come from love, but aggressive behaviour comes from hatred.
When experiencing or witnessing a betrayal, a hurt, an injustice or a loss –there is something worse than anger. In the words of Elie Wiesel: “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
As humans, we're programmed to experience negative emotions more intensely than positive ones. In psychology, this is known as a negativity bias; a tendency of our brains to register negative events or feelings more strongly than happy memories. This definitively rings true to my own experiences.
Anger is Complicated
When we become angry, it is because we first feel something else: marginalized, hurt, disrespected, vulnerable, or neglected. In this way, anger is much more complicated than other emotions.
Being enamored of something or with someone goes far beyond liking them, and it's even more flowery than love. Enamored means smitten with, or totally infatuated.
Love – The Purest Emotion.
Happiness. Of all the different types of emotions, happiness tends to be the one that people strive for the most.
Anger Can Be a Necessary and Useful Emotion:
At its core anger alerts us to threats and tells us when one of our fundamental needs has gone unmet or has been squashed. In doing so anger makes it clear to us who we are.
Anger is typically an attempt to control the actions or behaviors of others to get our needs and wants met by others. Anger is the result of frustration when you do not get what you need, want, or expect from life or others. Anger is essentially a control tactic.
Sadness, guilt, anxiety, and fear are most often the primary emotions that get transformed into anger. As a result of judging and therefore suppressing their full expression, their energy “becomes” anger.
Anger. This tends to be the easiest for beginning actors to achieve. Sometimes just volume can bring it on.
Anger. This emotion is the most dangerous because it can cause us to take actions that we may later regret. Finding healthy ways to express our anger is critical during this time so that we stay on track with our recovery. Boredom.
Enraged. This is the stage when you feel completely out of control. You may exhibit destructive behavior when your anger reaches this point, such lashing out physically, excessive swearing, or threatening violence.
The allocation of psychophysiological resources to an action associated with anger, such as kicking or punching, can result in increased strength.
On the other hand, anger is a powerful emotion and if it isn't handled appropriately, it may have destructive results for you and those closest to you. Uncontrolled anger can lead to arguments, physical fights, physical abuse, assault and self-harm.