But science is categorical that anger is a symptom of a complete loss of control.
The symptoms of anger are, for most part, similar to fear! The iris widens, the heart pumps blood faster, the pressure on the circulatory system is heightened. The hair follicles on the body stand up, even the blood chemistry changes. The fight-or-flight hormones, in fact, for anger and fear are the same: adrenaline and noradrenaline. In effect the entire sympathetic mechanism is on a chronic alert, bombarding the system to ‘prepare’ itself, just as fear does. The first flash of anger may be ‘useful’, but the next one, and the next, keep circulating in the blood chemicals which have outlived their moment, keeping us in a state of heightened sympathetic system arousal which is a diseased state, leading to chronic ailments.
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