Why are people feeling so angry? Perhaps it is because there are more lines, more rules and more restrictions and less ...

This post is in response to Anger Problems: A Smokescreen for Fear-Shame Phobia By Steven Stosny, Ph.D. Since fellow PT blogger Dr. Steven Stosny and I both share similar concerns with the increasing ...

Anger provides a way to temporarily numb or avoid pain, which is why, when you bang your thumb hanging a picture, you don't pray. It’s a survival-based function of anger—if you’re being attacked by a ...

She kept blaming herself for snapping over small things, until she realized the outbursts weren’t anger so much as a nervous system on high alert from frantic parenting years. When you recognize those ...

Got a time bomb ticking in the other room, where a simple no from you - or persistent pestering from little sister - is all it takes to make your kid explode? Whatever it is that sets your kids off, ...

Your heart races, muscles tense, and your face feels hot—that unmistakable signal that anger has taken over. It might be triggered by something minor, like someone cutting in line at the supermarket, ...

When my daughter Anjali was young, she was tiny but fierce. She would erupt over small injustices, like having to set one more plate on the table than her sister. Her small body was scarcely able to ...