Psychology, emotion, specific, anger. --- .This section is about anger. Topics include: ( ) Anger. ( ) Disgust. ( ) Frustration. --- 1/24/2006
Psychology, emotion, specific, anger. --- (1) Anger is healthier than depression. (2) Angry all the time. (3) Anger is an energy. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, anger. --- (1) Types of anger. Frustrated. Perturbed. Aggravated. Miffed. Peeved. Pissed off. Rage. (2) Uncontrolled anger vs. controlled anger. (3) Misplaced anger at innocents vs. well placed anger at the source of injustice. (4) Anger is an energy, to quote Johnny Rotten. --- 6/20/2002
Psychology, emotion, specific, anger. --- Anger is good and healthy; sadness and depression is unhealthy. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, anger. --- Disgust is a basic emotion. Disgust has a corresponding facial expressions that anthropologists recognize as universal to all cultures. Disgust is distinct from sadness and anger. What happens when everything disgusts you? Are you depressed? Is this why Sartre wrote "Nausea"? Many depressed people are sad, angry and disgusted all at once, a triple threat. --- 5/10/1999
Psychology, emotion, specific, anger. --- Disgust. Sometimes I disgust myself. This is progress, to be disgusted with oneself. If you are never disgusted with yourself, you will never do anything. --- 06/30/1993
Psychology, emotion, specific, anger. --- Disgust. When I cease to be totally disgusted, nauseated, angry, and disturbed by all the bull shit in the world. When I say "maybe it is ok", or ignore it, then I know I am in trouble, and have given up and lost the battle like all the other assholes. --- 09/26/1993
Psychology, emotion, specific, anger. --- First step, realize you are angry (emotionally, intellectually). Acknowledge it, figure out why. Figure out how bad and unjust the cause is. Sort out your emotions. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, anger. --- Frustration as a form of anger regarding drives denied. --- 3/29/2000
Psychology, emotion, specific, anger. --- I have much anger. Get it out at sources. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, anger. --- It is good to be bugged (to a certain extent) by the stupidity, evil, insanity, absurdity. Pissed off, irked, bothered, confused. It is not good to be completely complacent. --- 11/20/1993
Psychology, emotion, specific, anger. --- Problems with anger. (1) People who don't feel enough anger. People who don't acknowledge their anger and deal productively with their anger end up repressing their anger and turning it into depression and anxiety. They need to say to themselves and to others, "I feel (very, moderately, or a little) angry at x person about y event because of z reason". (2) People who feel too much anger. People who lose their temper. People who lose control when angry. Who have fits of uncontrolled anger. Who have anger management problems. People whose anger turns into abuse (verbal abuse, physical abuse and psychological abuse). --- 6/15/2004
Psychology, emotion, specific, anger. --- Self righteous wrath (for justice) is the key emotion. It leads to action. It is greater than love. This is because we love the perfect but we get angry over the imperfect, and the world is highly imperfect. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, anger. --- Two principles of anger. (1) Better to get angry than to go nuts. (2) Only ethical expressions of justified anger can be countenanced. An ethical expression of anger is at the right target in the right amount. --- 6/20/2002
Psychology, emotion, specific, anger. --- Vent your anger, disapproval, and objections, no matter what the situation. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, anger. --- What am I angry about, and why? Momentarily vs. persistently. In general vs. specific. Myself, god, everyone, everything. Past, present, future. --- 12/30/1992
Psychology, emotion, specific, anger. --- What makes one angry? Injustice makes us angry. Done to us by others. Done to us by nature. Done to us by self. Or even to witness injustice can make one angry. --- 6/15/2004
Psychology, emotion, specific, anger. --- Work it out in thought and action. Get catharsis and justice. --- 12/30/1992