<story><title>Anger Does a Lot More Damage to Your Body Than You Realize</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/anger-health-effects-risks-heart-brain-mental-f4105ed7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text>I have found that anger is &lt;i&gt;my&lt;/i&gt; problem; regardless of whether or not it’s justified.&lt;p&gt;Anger isn’t actually an “emotion.” It’s a reaction. It causes our body to generate a bunch of endocrine changes to “supercharge,” and also causes our thinking to simplify into a fairly binary “fight or flight” mode.&lt;p&gt;We don’t usually make good decisions, when we’re angry; which is exactly why demagogues have striven to make people angry, for time immemorial.&lt;p&gt;So if I’m angry, I do my best to put it aside (easier said, than done, most times), and avoid making important decisions, while I’m fuming.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>soared</author><text>Im a huge fan of this mindset! A man’s search for meaning by viktor frankl is a brutal but good read partially about that mindset.&lt;p&gt;Somehow any problem in life could be reduced to nearly
no stress&amp;#x2F;anxiety&amp;#x2F;anger&amp;#x2F;etc when I realized I could just.. choose to not have those responses. The drawback is you see others responding with extreme emotion and it can be difficult to accept their feelings as valid.</text></comment>
<story><title>Anger Does a Lot More Damage to Your Body Than You Realize</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/anger-health-effects-risks-heart-brain-mental-f4105ed7</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ChrisMarshallNY</author><text>I have found that anger is &lt;i&gt;my&lt;/i&gt; problem; regardless of whether or not it’s justified.&lt;p&gt;Anger isn’t actually an “emotion.” It’s a reaction. It causes our body to generate a bunch of endocrine changes to “supercharge,” and also causes our thinking to simplify into a fairly binary “fight or flight” mode.&lt;p&gt;We don’t usually make good decisions, when we’re angry; which is exactly why demagogues have striven to make people angry, for time immemorial.&lt;p&gt;So if I’m angry, I do my best to put it aside (easier said, than done, most times), and avoid making important decisions, while I’m fuming.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>everdrive</author><text>I agree with your mindset, but this is interesting to me:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;Anger isn’t actually an “emotion.” It’s a reaction.&lt;p&gt;Are there emotions which are not reactions?</text></comment>