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Anger management: Your questions answered
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What is anger?
So it's not 'bad' to feel angry?
What causes people to get angry?
What's the best way to handle anger?
Can anger harm your health?
When is professional help needed?
Can anger harm your health?
Some research suggests that inappropriately expressing anger — such as keeping anger pent up — can be harmful to your health. Suppressing anger appears to make chronic pain worse, while expressing anger reduces pain.
There's also evidence that anger and hostility is linked with heart disease, high blood pressure, peptic ulcers and stroke.