What Does Anger Do?

Video Transcript

"Hi! I'm Brenda F. Dixon and I am a licensed clinical social worker and I am here with Expert Village and we are talking about how to overcome anger and I have given some definitions of anger and there is some components under anger such as indignation, rage, fury, ire and wrath. Wrath is the last one that people want to actually have revenge on someone when they have a wrath. We want to talk a little bit about an aspect of anger that comes into play here. People have several different responses to anger. When someone is angry, they will actually push someone away from them and people will begin to scatter and leave or another approach to anger they get really helpless and pitiful and they will start to draw people towards them. They are two different ways of looking at anger where it pushes people away or it draws people closer to you. So to understand a little bit more about how to overcome anger, we will continue on this avenue and talk a little bit more about it next time. "