How to Cope with a Uncontrollable Anger

Anger is an emotion that everyone will experience at various points in their lives. In fact, it’s a feeling that’s necessary to experience because it acts as a form of protection against potential threats. However, if you find yourself frequently developing clear signs of pent-up rage within you, it might mean you have what’s commonly referred to as a "short fuse" or a hot temper. So perhaps you’re frustrated with a service provider who messed up your order, or with the driver in front of you in traffic who simply refuses to move, or maybe you even tend to "lose it" when your favorite team loses—either way, such outbursts could indicate something more serious. Having a quick temper is something that can negatively affect your well-being, both physically and mentally. Not sure if your passing irritability is natural or if you truly have a short fuse? Don’t know how to deal with the feeling? The following article will provide you with both the signs of a fiery temper and tips for coping with it.

Signs of a Fiery Temper 

 

There are many widely accepted and understandable ways to express your anger; for example, yelling, glaring looks, or even crying—these are all healthy and natural ways to express the distress a certain situation causes you. But if you’re characterized by a fiery temper and a short fuse, your anger might seem almost primal and could be marked by the fact that you: 

 

Get irritated easily 

 

 Experience shortness of breath when you get upset 

 

Feel your vision blurring 

 

Experience a rise in blood pressure 

 

Your pulse races when confronting the source of your anger. 

 

An outburst of a fiery temper sometimes comes without any warning; it’s an explosion of emotions. At times, it can certainly cause embarrassment for the person experiencing it.

How Does a Fiery Temper Negatively Affect Quality of Life? 

If you’re prone to unpredictable and uncontrollable outbursts of anger, this behavioral pattern could leave you vulnerable to several negative and problematic social, physical, and even psychological consequences. 

 

A. Can Cause Blood Pressure Issues 

If you frequently feel anger, you might eventually find yourself in a situation where your blood pressure keeps rising. In fact, rage is so effective at raising blood pressure that it can undo all the work your body does to lower it while you sleep. Moreover, since anger causes an increase in the production of catecholamines and corticosteroids, which affect the body’s stress response, repeated feelings of rage can lead to heart rhythm disturbances and blood vessel issues. These effects are responsible for the common link between anger and ischemic heart disease. 

 

B. Can Lead to Poor Health Choices 

A fiery temper and constant anger can also affect your lifestyle; if these are prominent traits of yours, other negative characteristics might emerge as a result. Perhaps in an attempt to calm your nerves after an outburst or out of guilt for losing your temper again, you might develop problematic and blatantly unhealthy habits, such as smoking, excessive caffeine consumption, eating calorie-laden foods, or overindulging in alcoholic beverages or drugs.

C. Can Increase the Risk of Bulimia and Eating Disorders 

This might seem like a problem associated with adolescence, but in truth, it’s not. Eating disorders of various kinds, particularly bulimia, can develop at any age, and heightened anger can certainly act as a catalyst for this. The negative emotions stemming from anger can lead to a need for continuous, unregulated eating followed by intentional vomiting. This connection is more prevalent with impulsive personality traits—and it can definitely manifest even in later stages of life beyond adolescence if you’re prone to excessive anger. 

 

D. Can Increase the Risk of Traffic Accidents  

It’s pretty normal to get annoyed at the irresponsible driving of others on the road or to wonder why the slowest driver is the one right in front of you. But when a bit of caution isn’t mixed into our feelings toward others on the road, and uncontrollable anger builds up while driving—the results can be devastating. If you regularly experience what’s known as "road rage," research shows a link between this behavior and an increased risk of traffic accidents. This might happen because you’re too focused on your raging emotions rather than driving, leading to insufficient focus on the road itself—and even loss of control over the vehicle, causing accidents. 

 

E. Can Cause Feelings of Anxiety 

If you’ve already experienced anxiety attacks in your life—a phenomenon that’s neither rare nor insignificant—you’re surely familiar with the physical sensations that take over during such moments, like excessive sweating, trembling, and rapid breathing. To some extent, this isn’t all that different from anger outbursts, and if, in addition to anxiety, you also find yourself frequently losing your calm over trivial or significant reasons alike, there’s a good chance that your anger and anxiety are intertwined. Various studies have found that the appearance of heightened and frequent anger can be linked to the physical symptoms of anxiety.

How to Cope with Anger? 

 

4 Helpful Methods

 It’s entirely possible that after understanding the particularly negative implications of a hot temper, a short fuse, and excessive anger outbursts, it no longer seems appealing to you or like a natural part of life you just have to accept. True, just like joy and sorrow, expressing anger in response to things like a broken promise or a missed opportunity is completely normal, but when anger episodes become more frequent—it’s time to start dealing with it and addressing it. In this area, we have some good tips that can help you begin managing your anger more effectively.

A. Try Positive Self-Training Techniques 

 When you start feeling the unmistakable signs that anger is building up inside you, try focusing on positive self-training methods like deep breathing to calm yourself down. Pairing breathing with calming self-affirmations that help ease the anger can also contribute to controlling the rage and gradually distancing it. Repeating this practice until the feeling softens and your mood stabilizes can help you prevent outbursts, as well as the negative consequences that come with them. You can try performing these 7 breathing exercises to relieve stress, and also press on the pressure points outlined in this article—which help reduce and eliminate feelings of anger. 

 

B. Talk to Your Loved Ones  

Just as you’d turn to the people you love and value when painful things like heartbreak or joyful events like a promotion happen in your life—so too can you call them and talk to them when you feel a loss of control and a fiery temper starting to seep in. It’s a good and healthy way to cope with this feeling, and there’s no need to be ashamed of exposing this vulnerability to them—you know they’ll support and contain you so you can calm down and ease the anger. Your friends and family can absolutely serve as a "support group" and calm you until the worst passes. 

 

C. Keep a "Mood Journal"  

A good way to cope with anger and identify how often you adopt this feeling is to keep a journal where you track your emotions. In such a journal, which can be entirely personal to you, note the events that trigger your outbursts, as well as the thoughts running through your mind when it happens. This will help you better understand your emotions in order to deal with them more effectively and ultimately overcome them. 

 

D. Seek Professional Help 

Ultimately, if your emotions are too intense and volatile, and it feels hard to contain and control them through self-help, there’s no shame in seeking professional assistance to help you take matters into your own hands. Professional therapists—whether psychologists, psychotherapists, or specialists in anger management —can help you start identifying negative emotions and controlling them, thus suppressing anger outbursts. Through such therapy, you might learn different, healthier ways to cope with the triggers that spark your fiery temper outbursts.

 

In Summary 

As mentioned, under normal and controlled circumstances, anger is a logical and acceptable part of life. However, when it spirals out of control and becomes your defining trait, it’s harmful, destructive, and requires addressing. While a fiery temper and a short fuse are powerful feelings, it’s important to remember that anger is something you can ultimately manage; with breathing techniques, support from loved ones, and professional help if needed—you’re capable of overcoming it. Keep in mind that the goal isn’t to completely eliminate anger from your life but to prevent it from overpowering you and defining your mental well-being. Adhering to the anger management methods we’ve recommended can help you bring those feelings under control.

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What You Can Do Before Daylight Saving Time to Help Your Body Adjust

Failing to prepare for daylight saving time (DST) can have consequences.

Increased risk of traffic accidents, heart attacks, and even strokes the Monday after the “spring forward” in March are associated with losing the seasonal hour of sleep, say experts.

It’s known as the “DST effect.”

The resulting short-term sleep deprivation and circadian misalignment is also said to bring mood fluctuations, particularly in unprepared children and teens, people with mental health conditions, and people taking certain medications.

Planning ahead and making small adjustments before the time change reduces risk and minimizes the effects of daylight saving time.

Here’s some things you can do this coming week to help ease the transition.
Resetting your internal clock

Keeping good sleep hygiene is important year-round, but it becomes crucial during a time change.

“The cells in the heart, the liver, the lungs, the gut, and the brain are all in part regulated by internal clocks or genes, and those cells are also signaling each other,” says Daniel S. Lewin, PhD, DABSM, a pediatric psychologist, sleep specialist, and licensed clinical psychologist at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C.

“If they are signaling each other at the wrong times or if hormones are released at the wrong times, the evidence that there are long-term negative effects on a whole host of different health behaviors is important to consider,” Lewin told Healthline.

Unless we prepare our bodies for the change, daylight saving time will misalign our circadian rhythm.

Dr. Shalini Paruthi, the co-director of the Sleep Medicine and Research Center at St. Luke’s Hospital in St. Louis and a member of the American Academy of Sleep, suggests the following.

For the 3 nights before DST, go to bed 15 or 20 minutes earlier each night. For example, if your regular bedtime is 10 p.m., start by adjusting it to 9:40 p.m., then 9:20 p.m., and finally 9 p.m.
 
Begin adjusting the timing of other daily routines that are “time cues” for your body (e.g., start eating dinner a little earlier each night).
 
On the Saturday afternoon before the change, set your clocks ahead 1 hour in the early evening. Then go to sleep at your normal bedtime.

Working to reset your internal clocks over a few days rather than a single night prevents an unnecessary shock to your system.

Dr. Sterling Ransone Jr., a family physician in Deltaville, Virginia, agrees.

“Help yourself slowly adjust that clock so when we do move our clock forward, we’re kind of resetting things and we don’t feel quite as sleepy the next day or two days later,” he told Healthline.

And, if you’re struggling to reset your internal clocks, Ransone advises starting your day with exposure to natural bright light.

“We generally recommend that people, when they awaken, be exposed to bright light, and it’s that bright light that helps set your clock so your circadian rhythms will get in line,” he said.

Try awakening a little earlier the week before the “spring ahead” time change and going for walks or eating breakfast on the balcony or patio to increase your light exposure and regulate your circadian rhythm.
Phase out evening caffeine

If you regularly consume caffeine, putting parameters around your intake during the week before a time change can help you achieve the goal of resetting your internal clocks.

Experts recommend limiting your afternoon intake and slowly reducing the total amount of caffeine you consume in the days leading to daylight saving time.

“We like people, if they are going to partake in caffeine, to use it in the morning,” says Ransone. “By lunch or midafternoon, we don’t like to have a lot of caffeine because that can upset the time when you’re ready to go to sleep.”

For people trying to go to bed earlier each night, caffeine can impede their progress.

“I have my afternoon and evening coffee drinkers slowly decrease their evening caffeine intake over a few days,” Ransone said .

Ransone also recommends reducing your overall caffeine intake prior to the time change by choosing half-caffeinated coffees or, if home brewing, blending a mix of regular and decaf coffee.

“Going ‘cold turkey’ can sometimes lead to headaches,” he said.

However, he notes, “The eventual goal is no caffeine after midafternoon to promote healthier sleeping at night.”

So, you shouldn’t start drinking afternoon coffees the Monday after daylight saving time either.

Parents should also consider the sources of hidden caffeine, such as iced tea and orange sodas, that can cause sleep problems for their children and teens.

“Chocolate ice cream and chocolate milk are also problematic,” Lewin said.

You want to limit your children’s exposure to these sources of sleep-disrupting food and beverage products because helping prevent sleep loss saves the entire family from struggling with post-time change tantrums.

“For adults it’s important, but for kids, even if they can’t tell time, they’re going by their circadian rhythm and their own internal clock, and if you can slowly adjust, then usually that Monday will be a lot more pleasant with your toddler than it would have been otherwise if you don’t gradually try to change your clock,” said Ransone.

Without help adjusting, he says children on the Monday and Tuesday after daylight saving time can be “grumpy, combative, they’re whiny, and it has to do with the time change.”
 
Be stricter about screens
Experts say in the days leading up to daylight saving time, we need to commit to putting our electronics away at least 1 hour before bedtime.

“The hour or so before you go to sleep is probably one of the most important times,” says Ransone.

Blue light from screens can suppress our melatonin production, the substance our pineal gland makes that tells us it’s time to go to bed.

This includes light from e-readers, tablets, cellphones, and televisions playing for background white noise.

“A lot of people do things that stimulate their brain [in this hour before bed] and when you stimulate your brain, you can’t get to sleep quite as well,” he said.

In doing that, says Ransone, we can’t set our clock.

“It kind of screws up your schedule,” he said.

So, as you adjust your bedtime in advance, you need to consider how this impacts your access to evening screen time during that week.

Try swapping your nighttime screen time for other activities such as crossword puzzles, paperback reading, and spending time with pets.

If necessary, help yourself adjust in stages and cut out 10 to 20 minutes of screen time each night until you reach a full hour of screen-free time before the daylight saving change.

If you require a set amount of screen time for work, reduce your evening routine by 10 to 20 minutes each day and add them to the morning hours, if possible.

For teens who will be driving in the mornings following daylight saving time, this lesser exposure to blue light in the evenings leading to the time change is an important step in reducing the aforementioned “DST effect.”

“Research shows that high school students lose sleep on school nights following ‘spring forward,’” Paruthi told Healthline. “The loss of sleep during the school week was associated with a decline in vigilance and cognitive function, which raises safety concerns for teen drivers.”

One report found a 6 percent increase in fatal traffic accident risk associated with the spring ahead transition.

Keeping our families healthy and safe means doing due diligence to help them adjust to the upcoming change.
How parents can motivate teens

Getting your teens to care about circadian rhythms can be a challenge.

Experts say parents should begin with explaining the benefits, but keep it short.

“Work less toward telling them what to do, particularly in the long term,” says Lewin.

Instead, encourage them to try just one of the previously suggested ideas.

“If you can get a teen to try one of these modifications for 7 to 10 days, usually two weekends and one week in between, it is sufficient time for a teen to feel they have their sleep behaviors under control,” Lewin said.

“Once they feel that control, they feel better, they feel the benefits,” he added. “And at least at that point, with an attempt, they have internalized some of the skills they need to unravel.”

“Also, if you can talk a teen into engaging their social network, so if they can get their three best friends to shift their schedule with them, this way if they all commit, none are missing out on some of the social media chatter,” Lewin noted. “Then they can share their experience and that can reinforce for all of them some positive behavior in the close proximity of their social network,” he said.

“It also helps if the whole family commits to doing the same thing together,” Lewin added. “Parents setting an example, [such as] putting away electronics after 9 p.m., can be very positive and powerful.” 

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