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 
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fight-or-flight response 
via the sympathetic nervous system

 with the

parasympathetic nervous system,
permitting reasoning to take over again.

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Anger Management
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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.”