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Blogs > Jacqui1000 > Life on the Rock


Jacqui1000 61F
141 posts
10/19/2012 12:50 pm
Hot Tempered?
"A hot-tempered person stirs up conflict, but the one who is patient calms a quarrel." -- Proverbs 15:18 (NIV)

Do you have a bad temper? Or are you patient and understanding? Are you a skunk that blows up, then afterward everything is okay, or are you a turtle that retreats from the angry outbursts of others?

There are twelve basic types of anger.

1. Behavioral Anger: Anger is aggressive toward whatever triggers them, either a person or thing. These types of people can seem to act out or be generally troublesome. The outcome of this can sometimes lead to physical abuse or attacks on others.

2. Passive Anger: Anger is expressed through sarcasm or mockery. These people tend to avoid confrontations with people or situations.

3. Verbal Anger: Anger expressed through words instead of actions. These types of people use verbal abuse to criticize/insult people, or to complain.

4. Constructive Anger: Anger that drives people to join movements/groups in order to make a positive change.

5. Self-inflicted Anger: Anger that leads to harming oneself. This type of person often self-abuses for some perceived guilt. Examples of this include starvation, cutting, and binge eating.

6. Volatile Anger: Often referred to as the skunk, this type of anger appears out of nowhere, or can build into something more severe, often resulting in an explosion of verbal or physical abuse directed outward at whoever my be present.

7. Chronic Anger: This type of anger is present consistently and seems to be part of the person's personality. It can be expressed verbally or physically, but never seems to subside.

8. Judgmental Anger: Anger that is expressed by belittling others in order to make them feel bad about themselves, or guilty. Its hallmark is the person's need to make others feel inadequate.

9. Overwhelmed Anger: When a situation becomes too much for a person to endure, they relieve the strain by shouting, and acting out.

10. Retaliatory Anger: Anger that typically occurs as a direct response to someone else lashing out at the person. It is often expressed as a way of getting revenge.

11. Paranoid Anger: Anger that comes from feelings of jealousy, often because the person feels others have/want what is rightfully theirs, or out of a feeling of being intimidated by others.

12. Deliberate Anger: This sort of anger is used to gain control over a situation. Often evidenced when things do not go as a person planned.

Do you recognize yourself in any of these? What do you do when you're angry? How do you get past your anger?

"If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster." — Isaac Asimov
Jacqui1000 61F

10/20/2012 8:26 am

 Same here, Terri. And I still pray for him as well.
God bless you!
"If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster." — Isaac Asimov


Jacqui1000 61F

10/23/2012 3:29 pm

 Thanks, Webling!
"If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster." — Isaac Asimov