Anger can leave us livid and wanting to take revenge, but it may also do more harm to the body than we realize. While anger is part of human nature, studies have shown that holding in anger and not expressing feelings at all can cause major problems for our memory and mental health.
1. Anger may cause an immediate decline in cognitive efficiency.
Studies have shown that people who are provoked into feeling strong emotions, such as anger, experience a brief but dramatic drop in their visual-spatial abilities, which are necessary for tasks like reading maps and driving cars. These feelings of anger can trigger us to focus on potential threats without being aware of them.
2. Expressing your angry thoughts through writing helps.
Some studies show that when you write down your feelings about what made you angry while you still feel the anger, you increase your ability to recognize words related to what made you angry. The more time that passes after an incident of anger, the less likely a person is to recall what they were mad about in the first place.
3. Suppressing thoughts about anger affects working memory.
In some studies, people who were asked not to think about a specific topic showed activity in brain regions that are usually active when thinking about that topic and suppressed by other tasks. Such suppression of memories is thought to be a way of relieving ourselves of the painful negative emotions associated with certain memories.
4) Anger enhances forgetting
When we feel anger or disgust, it can cause us to lose focus on what we are doing and forget about the things we just learned. Anger and feelings associated with disgust enhance forgetting of what we just experienced, leaving our memory worse than it was before.
5) Feeling guilty increases long-term memory
When we feel guilty after getting angry, our memories of that anger can be stronger than if we had not felt guilt. The longer a person is made to feel guilty for expressing their anger, the better they remember what happened when they were provoked into feeling this emotion.
6) Anger increases false memories
People who felt strong negative emotions during a particular event are more likely to mistakenly recall seeing related incidents in film footage later on as compared to those who do not have such strong emotional reactions to similar events. These errors in memory could also be due to the fact that people who are made angry during an incident tend to re-enact it in their minds over and over again.
7) Health problems are tied to anger
Anger can cause health problems, such as high blood pressure, heart disease, obesity, depression, and anxiety. The more frequently someone gets angry or has outbursts of temper, the greater their risk for developing psychological or physical disorders.
8) Being happy enhances memory
Studies show that when we recall events (which happened in our past), we often incorporate information about how emotionally positive or negative each event was at the time it occurred. This kind of rehearsal of events actually strengthens your memories by making them more accurate and detailed.
9) The ability to recognize faces declines after anger
Anger can impair our visual memory, which leads to us performing worse on tasks that require the ability to remember specific details about people's faces. This impairment of memory can be due in part to the fact that anger draws attention away from other important information about the person we are looking at.
10) Controlling the impulse to get angry is good for your health
People who have a hard time controlling their temper often develop more serious health problems later on in life than those who do not allow themselves to fly off the handle so easily.
Research shows that learning how to control your emotions, especially if they tend to lead you into feeling strong negative emotions like anger, has a lot of benefits on your physical and mental health
11) Anger can cause blindness in accident victims
When someone close to us is injured in an unfortunate accident, the body releases stress hormones that help it deal with stressful situations. These hormones are meant to be released for a short time only in response to emergencies.
Unfortunately, when people have ongoing anger in their lives, this actually causes these hormone levels to stay elevated. One of the health problems associated with long-term exposure to high amounts of stress hormones is vision loss due to macular degeneration.
12) Poor memory during an argument
As you might have noticed... when we get extremely angry at something or somebody, our brains tend to focus on what has made us so mad and as a result, we don't remember other details in order to better understand the situation.
13) Anger causes nightmares
Anxiety, anger, and stress often lead to nightmares, which can cause sleep problems. The more frequent or intense your nightmares are the higher the chance that you'll have trouble sleeping at night. Seen here is a woman having an extremely upsetting nightmare about being executed by guillotine…
14) Anger lowers immunity
When people get angry they tend to produce cortisol, which inhibits their immune system's ability to fight against infections. Some research shows that people who get easily angered are less healthy than others because their bodies don't work well when fighting off illnesses.
15) Anger causes breast cancer
In 2008, a study from Finland found that having too much stress or being angry caused women who already had breast cancer to have a negative outcome from their illness worse than those who were able to keep their anger under control.
16) Anger causes diabetes
People who get angry and show their anger to others to tend to have a higher chance of developing diabetes later on in life than people who are less easily angered. Researchers believe that high levels of stress hormones resulting from anger could lead to changes in the way the body processes sugar.
17) Anger causes heart disease
Studies have shown that people who get angry and show their anger to others tend to have a higher chance of developing heart disease later on in life than people who are less easily angered. Researchers believe that high levels of stress hormones resulting from anger could lead to changes in the way the body processes cholesterol.
18) Anger increases blood pressure
Studies have shown several times that when people are angry, anxious, or stressed their blood pressure, pulse rate, and other cardiovascular changes can increase dramatically in just minutes. Researchers suggest that anger may trigger the body's fight-or-flight response, leading it to produce hormones that constrict blood vessels and raise blood pressure.
19) Anger and heart attack
Some studies show that people who get angry or show their anger to others, often exhibit other behaviors that could put them at risk for a heart attack, such as smoking cigarettes, drinking too much alcohol, and engaging in an inactive lifestyle, which is thought to increase levels of dangerous cholesterol and decrease levels of protective HDL cholesterol in the blood over time.
Conclusion
the conclusion is that anger has many harmful effects and we need to be careful with this emotion. In the end, we conclude that controlling your anger is good for your health. If you want to have a healthy life, good food, exercise, and sleep. don't let anger take over it could be harmful. we need to control anger it has harmful effects on our health.
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