Recognizing assumptions angry people hold is key to effective anger management. Some assumptions held by people with anger problems include believing they are unable to help anger explosions; believing that exploding is the only way to express anger; that it’s more important to win than to be right; that they should take it personally when they are challenged; or that the way to make things right is to fight. Some angry people feel disrespected when people don’t do things their way and believe other people should automatically understand they didn’t mean what they did or said when they were upset. All of these assumptions are mistaken and learning to change them is important to controlling anger.
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