Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. While it's difficult to navigate the intense anger your ...

In my previous post, I discussed how "hangry" and similar states aren't actually anger—they're frozen fight-or-flight responses, anxiety experienced as irritability. But that raises an obvious ...

Anger is a natural emotion when caring for someone long term. Caregivers can experience high levels of stress and burnout, which can lead to feelings of anger and frustration. However, there are ways ...

If there's one emotion that's tough to deal with, it's anger. Growing up, many of us learn that expressing it means we're "problematic" or "mean." But anger is not a character flaw. It's an important ...

Fred Rogers, best known as Mister Rogers, once wrote: “The values we care about the deepest, and the movements within society that support those values, command our love. When those things that we ...

Venting when angry seems sensible. Conventional wisdom suggests that expressing anger can help us quell it, like releasing ...

Let me start with a question first: Is anger a positive or a negative emotion? Well, that’s a trick question. Emotions aren’t positive or negative. And if you think of them that way, you’ll get ...

Though a lot of us think of anger as a limiting or mostly negative emotion, there are times it can be useful. "Anger can be helpful when it signals that something isn’t right or needs to change," says ...

Thank you for joining today’s study on a topic many of you can relate to and may find timely. Honestly, I needed to explore anger and why the Lord placed it in my frontal lobes. Currently, many ...

If you’re one of the many citizens whose blood is boiling over what’s happening in the United States right now, you might be wondering what to do with all this red-hot rage. You’ve probably heard that ...

Anger is a natural emotion when caring for someone long term. Caregivers can experience high levels of stress and burnout, which can lead to feelings of anger and frustration. However, there are ways ...

If Terry L. had to give herself a diagnosis, it would be “what I call POPD — pissed-off personality disorder,” she says. Even though the Kansas resident has learned numerous coping skills to help ...