Uncontrolled anger has become a top mental health issue
excerpts from "How to Stop Violence: Mentally ill people aren’t killers, angry people are" -Laura L. Hayes, slate.com
Though we have the understanding and the skills to treat the anger epidemic in this country,
we have sought scapegoats in minority cultures, racial groups, and now the mentally ill*.
Violence is a product of compromised anger management skills.
Anger management skills are simple techniques
that can and should be taught to children and adolescents.
The skills involve balancing the
Though we have the understanding and the skills to treat the anger epidemic in this country,
we have sought scapegoats in minority cultures, racial groups, and now the mentally ill*.
Violence is a product of compromised anger management skills.
Anger management skills are simple techniques
that can and should be taught to children and adolescents.
The skills involve balancing the
fight-or-flight response
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parasympathetic nervous system,
permitting reasoning to take over again. |
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*Paolo del Vecchio of FSAMHSA, “Violence by those with mental illness is so small that even if you could somehow cure it all, 95 percent of violent crime would still exist.”