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Introduction
Anger is an emotion that allot of us find difficult to deal with. People often push it away or try to bottle it up because they worry it's bad. The key to dealing with angry feelings, though, is to find safe and helpful ways to express it.
If you're hearing, seeing or experiencing things that other people don't you might become angry for lots of reasons. The voices you hear might make you angry by saying nasty things or threatening you. You might feel angry that you can't escape from them. You might feel frustrated that people don't understand what you're going through, or that they don't believe you.
On the other hand, you might find that you don't feel angry at all - that you feel numb or cut off from things. Sometimes, if people are really scared of feeling angry they protect themselves by switching it off altogether. The problem is that sometimes these feelings build up and come out in different ways - including problems with eating, self harm, nasty voices and visions.
If you're struggling with angry feelings you might feel like you explode when things get too much. You might worry that you're hurting yourself, or the people you care about (with words or actions). Sometimes you might find that smashing up your room, taking drugs or drinking helps release it.
If you'd like to try some new ways of dealing with the angry feelings you have (or think that you might be bottling things up), you could try:
- Expressing yourself (channeling the anger out)
- Finding ways of calming down
- Dealing with the roots and looking at what's making you feel angry
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