Anxiety or Anger: which causes more harm?
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What’s your least favourite emotion?
Far more research has been conducted on anxiety than upon anger. More self-help literature targets anxiety, and more clients seek therapy for anxiety than for anger. But does that reflect the perceived harm? What do you think?
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Most of the times I have been angry in my life, anxiety was the catalyst.
Anxiety (fight or flight response) is the much bigger problem. Irritability is frequently mistaken as anger,which is actually anxiety in its fight (Irritability) form. Even in problematic cases of anger, the problem isn't so much the actual anger but the anxiety and/or irritability (again, fight and/or flight) that the person is having due to fear or inexperience with just being angry and choosing how or whether to express it.