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Ralph Notor Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist |
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How do your thoughts feed anger? I illustrate this concept with another example. Most people have had an experience of waiting in line at a store, a bank, or a ticket counter. The line is moving slowly, the clerk is distracted, the person in front of you needs special assistance that clearly will take longer than you want to wait...and you're in a hurry. You think to yourself "this shouldn't be happping to me" and you get steamed. Realistically, you have maybe two choices as to what you could do at this time, (1) wait your turn or (2) leave and try again later. Often, rather than taking one of these two options, we talk ourselves into a level of upset---maybe conducting an extended dialogue in our head about how we are being ill treated and how slow/stupid/thoughless these "others" are being. Managing the way you think about people and events can boost or calm your anger response. Anger management training can help you learn to manage your thinking as a way to manage your anger. Back to previous page ... :: posted by Ralph Notor, MFT 8/14/06 Psychotherapist in San Francisco | Therapist in San Francisco | Anger Management Therapist in San Francisco | Anger Management Training | Anger Management | Couples Counseling in San Francisco | Couples Therapist in San Francisco | Marriage Family Therapist in San Francisco | Marriage Therapy | Family Therapy | Hypnosis in San Francisco | Hypnotherapist in San Francisco | Hypnosis Therapy in San Francisco | Workplace counseling in San Francisco |
