Presentation: Anger, Recovery, and Your Brain 2 - Myers

56 Pages·2015·31.37 MB·English

Defining Anger
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Emotion
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Violent
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Destructive
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Disruptive
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Passive
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Silent
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Loud
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Intimidating
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Productive
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Empowering
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Career ending
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Defined by sender, receiver, history
and environment
What Anger Could Look Like
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Self Talk
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Physical manifestations
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Sleep
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Grumbling
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Preoccupation
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Avoidance
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Criticism
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Feelings of helplessness
Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other
person to die. ……
Buddha
Characteristics of anger
❑Gender interpreted
❑Culturally defined
❑Location significant factor
❑Defined at times by subjective
interpretations
❑Physical component
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and/or attack
❑Self preservation
Anger: Normal emotion not good or bad. Feeling hurt, injured,
disappointed, threatened (real or perceived) or fear. Is a feeling
and does not necessarily lead to anything else. May or may not
be outwardly expressed
Aggression: Action or behavior that results in verbal, emotional,
or physical attack on a person or object. May be reactive or
planned. Goal is not always to cause direct harm. Control or
dominance is usually desired outcome.
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Rage: Rage is the accumulation of unexpressed anger and
perceived disrespectful transactions that after multiple
“stuffings” finally flow to the surface.
Violence: Usually goal oriented with intent to harm. Usually
physical in nature. Predatory or reactive
1.Emotional part of brain (limbic system) is being
utilized at expense of thinking part(Cortex)
2. Amygdala hijacks messages , overrides cortex.
3. Hormones released (hormonal flush)
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anger state of arousal to calm

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Response to environment creates a message sent out to our
body
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Body reacts, hormones released
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Jeopardizes the brain’s ability to slow down
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Lowers serotonin levels
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Anger blocks the growth of new neurons in the brain
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Information between integral parts of brain impacted,
especially the Prefrontal Cortex
2.Pituitary glands
release fight or flight
1.As anger rises the
hormones including
hypothalumus in the 3. Hormones affect
adrenalin .
brain stimulates the the cardio system
pituitary glands
4. Heart races, blood
5. Sugar glucose is
pressure and body
released into the
temp rise as lungs
blood providing
struggle to take on
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7. If anger does not
6. Blood is diverted
subside and
to limps (fight or
hormones continue
flight) and to the
to surge, creates
brain(think more
cumulative stress on
rapidly).
body.
1.Right a wrong
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3. Hurt (rejection)
4. Loss of control