It might be an unpleasant emotion to experience, and it might be culturally discouraged, but we need anger, she added.
While many people may feel the need to resist or hide their anger, these mental health experts are urging the opposite.
Anger, they say, is an important tool we should better learn to wield in a kind, healthy and productive way.
That is often tied to rage — not anger, Ashway said.
But in those cases, “we’re talking about the outcome of unprocessed anger, not anger in and of itself.”Rage, she said, is old, unprocessed anger.
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