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Anger Does a Lot More Damage to Your Body Than You Realize
- ecmascript 2y ago[flagged]
- karmakurtisaani 2y agoOr maybe they're just 45, looking like they're 75.
- throw383y8 2y ago[flagged]
- happypumpkin 2y ago"Let the hate flow through you"
- hbarka 2y agoWhere did this meme come from? Why does the internet like it?
- bluefirebrand 2y agoIts from Star Wars, and its from Star Wars
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- gmerc 2y agoHow’s half the electorate still alive.
- adolph 2y agoTheir time is as finite as the other half.
- badhacker 2y ago[flagged]
- sumitkumar 2y agoExpressed anger/emotion is okay, bottled up anger/emotion is not good. And all restraint must hit the emotion sink without delay. So don't keep emotional debt. Settle it right away or forget it forever.
- solfox 2y agoThis really applies to all emotion. Bottles up emotion isn’t great for our mental or physical health.
- QuantumGood 2y agoIt's common to talk about one incidence of anger being expressed versus years of anger being suppressed, while most people do a mixture of expression and suppression, and there are ways to reduce anger without suppression. Of course, sometimes how a preference is expressed for suppression or expression comes from an underlying personality type and philosophy— is a heuristic or justification for personal preference. Many athletes and actors practice a brief expression of frustration followed by conscious breathing as a way to reduce and channel anger, rather than suppressing it or giving into a feeling of being out of control. Behaving from a place of being out of control tends to be where a lot of damage in life is caused. Another popular point of view is someone who expresses anger saying it is truth, as Harry Truman responded to someone who said "Give 'em hell. Harry!", He replied "I just tell them the truth and they think it's hell." A family member who has this issue has many stories such as this one: "I parked in front of the restaurant and before I could get out this guy I don't know was at my window screaming at me. I don't know why this always happens to me." When you spend some time with this person, you find that they have poor impulse control and lack of awareness of how their choices affect others. The reason these things "always happen to them" is because they cause it to happen through their behavior.
- resource_waste 2y agoI'd like to know the neurochemistry behind this. I have embraced my emotions and I have never been more miserable. Verses when I was a practicing Stoic and ignored them. When you embrace your emotions, your brain focuses on different things. If I ignored an emotion, I can go back to work. If I embrace an emotion, I might dig deep into a PTSD-style event, and be bummed all day. I'm not sure where this idea to 'get your emotions out when they come', I'm not sure its scientific.
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- ted_bunny 2y agoArchive.org doesn't remove the paywall, and the audio is just a preview.
- flakeoil 2y agoThis makes me so angry. Edit: /s
- al_borland 2y agoCheck with your local library. Mine offers members free access to the WSJ. It’s 3 days at a time, just need to click a link to re-up when it runs out.
- throwanem 2y agoShare link (unpaywalled): https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/anger-health-effects-risks-heart-brain-mental-f4105ed7?st=5abjg28iq6fb1rd&reflink=share_mobilewebshare https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/anger-health-effects-ris... Study: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/JAHA.123.032698 https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/JAHA.123.032698
- chaostheory 2y agoApple News is another way to access this article without paying for a full WSJ subscription.
- px43 2y agoIs there a non-Apple way to do this? It seems natural for Google news to step in here, but somehow Google News just keeps finding ways to get worse. I stopped using it when it kept showing me the same fake news shady WordPress blogs hosted out of Brazil attempting to impersonate US news outlets. Super weird phenomenon.
- chaostheory 2y agoI remember reading that Apple’s podcast platform doesn’t bring in much revenue, but they continue to maintain and improve it because of the valuable UX it gives its customers. I wonder if Apple News is the same? In Google’s defense, most companies besides Apple don’t care about UX if it doesn’t directly affect quarterly revenues.
- brainless 2y agoGrowing up in a dysfunctional family, I had a lot of anger that stole away parts of my life. Anger wasn't alone at fault, but surely a demon that was there. One thing that hit me hard, while I was already on my healing journey was a saying at a monastery: "You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger." This saying is supposed to be from Buddha's teachings. I remember having an immediate talk with my friend, almost breaking down, thinking about all the years behind that I have been trying to tame this.
- peoplefromibiza 2y agothat's simply because we live in societies that punish anger, instead of treating it like we treat any other emotion. "You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger." bu also: "You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished for making other people angry too." EDIT: proof is if I say anger is normal, it's not good or bad it's just part of what we are, it's simply that our societies that are based on the fiction of the merciful god - especially in the US - have decided to treat it like a bug in the system, there are some fluctuations in the votes that this comment receives. If I said the same thing about sadness or fear or joy or surprise, nobody would have found it controversial. Even though sadness kills a lot of people every year (and fear makes people angry, many angry people are simply scared).
- cafard 2y agoPunish anger? A lot of people make a career out of anger, even if it sometimes appears to be simulated.
- xattt 2y agoSimilar to “puritanical” suppression of sexuality in the US general population, people who make a living out of anger are literally making anger porn.
- peoplefromibiza 2y agopunish here means it is widely considered a bad trait, that must be expelled, like a demonic possession. If you are angry, there's something wrong with you, it can't possibly be that there are often times good reasons to be angry. Anger plays a big role in what we humans are, just like fear, sadness or joy. > A lot of people make a career out of anger A lot of people make careers out of being good at killing or at criminal behavior in general, doesn't mean that societies encourage it.
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- tasuki 2y agoMedia have always thrived on creating intensive negative emotions in its consumers...
- ai_what 2y agoAnyone else getting this on WSJ.com? You have been blocked. Why? Something about the behaviour of the browser has caught our attention. Not even a captcha or anything. Update: for those with the same issue: https://archive.is/XGe5U https://archive.is/XGe5U Thanks to @throwanem for the WSJ unpaywalled share link.
- doubleg72 2y agoAre you a bot?
- ai_what 2y agoNo why?
- fch42 2y agoFrom the point of view of the WSJ, if your company "puts you through" a hosted proxy browser (like, for example, but not limited to https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/zero-trust/products/browser-isolation/ https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/zero-trust/products/browser... - there are other vendors for this), then you're a bot for all they care.
- rchaud 2y agoThis is not uncommon for sites using Cloudflare (bot protection), especially if you have adblockers or script blockers of some kind turned on that prevent browser fingerprinting.
- is_true 2y agoIf you have dev tools open you get blocked also.
- seventytwo 2y agoDoes this justify legislation that bans algorithmic content based on outrage?
- resource_waste 2y ago10 years ago I was an Anarchist and would think this is overreach. Today, I realize we are animals driven by biology that don't get to control our environment. We do need laws in-place to prevent Strong Powers(big companies with psychology/marketing departments) from exploiting Weak Powers(individuals). There is some group of people that accept the status quo, think that humans have perfect freewill and can resist the social pressure of Blue Bubbles or temptations of clickbait. I think these people need to be ignored. They are idealists, which isnt particularly helpful.
- seventytwo 2y agoI couldn’t agree more.
- slowmovintarget 2y agoHad to look up "Blue Bubbles" because I wasn't exactly sure what you meant by that. Searching only on the term was worthless because there's now an app named that. Search results were all ads for it, or for the subreddit. The phrase "social pressure of Blue Bubbles" led to discussions of Apple's blue text for iMessage users and green for standard SMS messages. Is that what you were referring to? I think we need something both milder and stronger than ignored. I think we need concrete and rational arguments to persuade them away from such idealism. The biggest problem I have for those people in my life is they're often angry when such discussion come up...
- ChrisMarshallNY 2y agoI have found that anger is my problem; regardless of whether or not it’s justified. Anger isn’t actually an “emotion.” It’s a reaction. It causes our body to generate a bunch of endocrine changes to “supercharge,” and also causes our thinking to simplify into a fairly binary “fight or flight” mode. We don’t usually make good decisions, when we’re angry; which is exactly why demagogues have striven to make people angry, for time immemorial. So if I’m angry, I do my best to put it aside (easier said, than done, most times), and avoid making important decisions, while I’m fuming.
- everdrive 2y agoI agree with your mindset, but this is interesting to me: >Anger isn’t actually an “emotion.” It’s a reaction. Are there emotions which are not reactions?
- ChrisMarshallNY 2y agoWell, the basic wisdom, as I have been told, is that anger is a reaction to fear, which is an emotion, but that’s a fairly unpopular PoV. Anger is “manly,” while fear is “wussy.” No one likes to admit they’re frightened, but, in my experience, identifying the fear, and addressing that, is quite effective.
- cb321 2y ago"Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering." - Yoda, "A Long Time Ago".. ;-)
- justinclift 2y ago> Well, the basic wisdom, as I have been told, is that anger is a reaction to fear ... Oh, that's very different from what I learned, and have seen, which is that anger is a reaction to not having control over something (that you do actually want control of). So, when something occurs that's different to how a person wishes it to be (for whatever reason) they (can) get angry.
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- mdgrech23 2y agoI've really noticed over the last couple months how much Business Insider too has been pandering to the Fortune 500 CEO - Headlines such as Return to office to maybe better for your health or suggesting to do extra work between your kids little league innings.
- lupusreal 2y agoAll of that may be true, but I think it's also true that being angry often is bad for your health.
- paulryanrogers 2y ago> Look at those great Israelis. If they wrote Die Hard, John McClane would just be flattening Nakotomi Plaza to kill the bad guys and free the hostage. That's quite a broad brush. Yet I'd have to agree the current Israeli government are very hard-line and far right. Still, that's more likely cultural than breeding since there is considerable opposition to their strategy among the populous.
- Aeium 2y agoIf I had a dime for every time I've seen someone judgmentally compare Israel to fictional protagonists. "Luke Skywalker would just use the force to rescue the hostages. Have you considered that? I'm improving the world with my wisdom on this issue"
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- groby_b 2y agoWhile I'm by no means a fan of the WSJ and its writing - my first reaction to the headline was "well, then you should stop writing stupid OpEds, WSJ" - may I suggest you're maybe a wee bit too far into conspiracy land? Yes, WSJ absolutely pushes messages that benefit businesses & money above all else, and they have some pretty atrocious takes, but they're not part of a great cabal that breeds emotions out of humans. Even from a purely tactical perspective - if you imbue their mental image of them with way more power and influence than they have, you'll have a hard time counteracting them.
- tromp 2y agoRelated: How Inuit Parents Teach Kids To Control Their Anger [1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19396563 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19396563
- nprateem 2y agoOne of the best things I've discovered recently is how to activate the parasympathetic nervous system. It's quite easy: just inhale a belly breath but then draw the transverse abdominis back towards the spine below the navel. This helps the rest of the air you inhale effortlessly expand your rib cage from bottom to top if you relax. If you do it right, the transverse abdominis above the navel should bulge out as your diaphragm descends. It's accompanied by an amazing tingling sensation. I can't imagine it being possible to hold on to anger while I'm that state. I learnt about it in the book Pranayama by Gregor Maehle.
- actionfromafar 2y agonoted
- brainzap 2y agoI don't get it, can you explain it in simple terms.
- nprateem 2y agoTaking relaxed, full (as in makes your entire ribcage expand) breaths is super relaxing, activating the parasympathetic nervous system. But previously whenever I tried to take a relaxed breath, either all the air would fill the bottom of my lungs making only my belly expand, or I'd use my intercostal muscles to expand my mid and upper ribcage, but that wasn't super relaxing. If you breathe first allowing the lower lobes of your lungs to fill so your belly expands a bit, but then draw the transverse abdominis below the navel back to the spine, you can continue to inhale but the breath will cause the ribcage to expand from bottom to top as well (and the abdomen above the navel will expand too). Since you're not using the intercostal muscles it's very relaxing. It also allows the breath to expand in all directions, including at the back. The diaphragm then applies a gentle pressure to the adrenals. I recommend reading the book for more info. It makes breathing so pleasurable you just want to keep doing it.
- BurningFrog 2y agoI gave up anger ~20 years ago, and it's maybe the best thing I've ever done. I'm not claiming it's easy or that my way is universal, but this worked for me: - Like anyone else alive, I get momentarily angry. The important things are (1) don't hold on to it, and (2) remember that being angry is being stupid, so don't do anything irreversible while raged up. There is plenty time later to burn everything down, if that really needs to happen. - It's very important to accept reality. Accepting something doesn't mean that you love it. It means more "act as if it's true". - There is this myth that you have to be angry to accomplish change. This is just wrong. You accomplish a lot more with a rational clear mind than blinded by rage.
- theGnuMe 2y agoFear -> anger -> (redirect) -> Courage
- srid 2y ago> There is this myth that you have to be angry to accomplish change. This is just wrong. Aye. And the same can be said of fear itself; however, it will be a few more years or decades before humans will come to accept that fact (many people still believe that without fear in their life they will not be able to live a meaningful and productive life).
- srid 2y agoOn the other hand, appreciating life has a positive effect on mood and body. Some people use "gratitude", but I much prefer "appreciation" as it has less spiritual connotations. A ongoing genuine appreciation is the key.
- EasyMark 2y agoI find it hard to "control" my anger. It's a lot easier to walk away, do something else until it subsides, etc. Basically remove myself from the situation. The best thing I've done is simply to lower my stress and magically most of the anger goes away. Regular sleep, exercise, and nutrition can also greatly lower your tendency to do it. Meditation never did much for me, I've tried multitudes of time. Doing things that have me focus on one "simple" task though are wonderful to lower stress and let things percolate in my brain that are frustrating and often I come up with a solution.
- MrSkelter 2y agoAnger is an energy.