4 ways your anger hurts people around you

oge okonkwo

September 10, 2015 1:28 PM

Anger could deceive you into thinking you are doing the right thing while hurting people around you.

You may ruin your relationship with close friends totally if you continue to act in a certain pattern

Anger is an emotion that could be hard to resist and takes a stronger willpower to overcome. Anger could deceive you into thinking you are doing the right thing while hurting people around you.

According to The Good Men Project, here are ways anger blinds you and destroys your relationship with others:

1. Anger diverts your attention to unimportant things. It messes up your head and takes your attention away from what is actually bothering you to trivial matters.

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2. Anger misleads you into thinking your actions are right. You become blinded to your own faults and try to justify your anger while blaming others for provoking you.

3. Anger gives you a false sense of assurancethat aggressiveness is the right response every time you are provoked. This makes you more vulnerable.

4.Anger misleads you into thinking that's what a real man/woman would do in that particular situation. Considering opposite emotions isn't an option when anger takes over.

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