anger is fear
Anger And Fear. Anger is one of the most misunderstood of our primary emotions. It often gets a bad rap. Anger is not the problem, but rather, what folks do with anger that contributes to its growing bad reputation. Let’s talk a bit about anger and the primary and secondary emotions that are a part of our human makeup. Anger or wrath is an intense emotional response. It is an emotion that involves a strong uncomfortable and emotional response to a perceived provocation, hurt or threat. Anger can occur when a person feels their personal boundaries are being or going to be violated. Anger is the natural emotion created in a fight-or-flight situation by the physiology of your mind and body. When you sense a threat your mind generates fear and anger. The fear you generate is part of a flight response from your physiology. Anger is the emotional energy you generate for the fight against that perceived threat. What can be confusing is that your mind creates fear and anger even when the threat is just imagined. Emotions like anger are natural and real. Updated September 09, 2016. While everyone gets angry, some people have better control of their anger than others. But when someone suffers from angrophobia, or the fear of anger, they truly fear getting angry because their anger is often so out of control that it's frightening. The term angrophobia refers specifically to the fear of becoming angry rather than the fear of others becoming angry with you. I was angry because I was afraid. Behind anger always lies fear, Even if the angry person appears to be strong and in control fear will always be the reason behind his anger. I was afraid that the lady does what she said which is leaving my friend in the middle of the highway alone. Both emotions are characterized by similar central nervous system arousal. In large part, it is our psychological interpretation of arousal feelings that determines whether we will feel fear, anger, or a combination of both. We said above that anger is a sort of transformation of pain, a category including fear feelings as well as physical pain. Considered physiologically (from the perspective of the body), there are a great number of common characteristics shared by anger and fear. Fear and Anger. Aversion, anger, and hatred are states of mind that strike against experience, pushing it away, rejecting what is presented in the moment. They do not come from without. This insight is a reversal of the ordinary way we perceive life. Anger and fear. Yesterday I was taking a friend of mine to the bus that will take her back home in another city that is four hours away. The lady then came and apologized and told me that we she was just kidding and since my friend is an expert in lying detection she told me that the lady was honest. Fear is often the flip side of anger. I like to think of it as a quarter, with heads and tails. If heads is anger, tails is fear. If heads is fear, the tail is anger. They flip a lot. With clients I often explain that the fear is anger being trapped inside with no way out. Anger is used as a protective mechanism to cover up fear, hurt or sadness. Anger becomes the predominant feeling behaviorally, cognitively, and physiologically when a person makes the conscious choice to take action to immediately stop the threatening behavior of another outside force.
No, fear is often the flip side of anger.