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Encourager: The Emotional Roller Coaster - Anger Is Part of the Ride

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The Emotional Roller Coaster - Anger is Part of the Ride

There's something about having cancer that many people don't like to talk about. It's often unattractive. It's scary. Some people will say it's always wrong. So, most of us try to smile and pretend it's not there. But sooner or later, the reality of dealing with cancer will expose it. What is it? It's ANGER!

Anger is a very real part of the cancer experience. We may be more or less angry than the person next to us, we may have different triggers that cause it to explode to the surfac... (continued)

Checking Your Anger Temperature
When was the last time you checked your anger temperature"? Are you a volcano? A stuffer? Neither?

The following "Irritability Indicator" by Devon Weber is not intended to be an in-depth analysis of your emotional health. However, it can provide a quick temperature reading on how well you respond to anger. You might try taking this quiz with your family and/or caregivers, and then talk about your results. When we talk about our emotions and how we respond to them, we take a giant step to... (continued)

Unveiling the Truth About Anger

Although we know it isn't true, we often consider our emotions to be the "black sheep" of the human personality. (And we consider the emotion of anger to be the darkest and most rebellious lamb in the flock!) But God our Creator doesn't make mistakes. Our emotions-even our anger-have a divine purpose. Perhaps if we understood the truth about anger, we would be able to use it as a valuable and necessary gift from God.

Anger Is a God-Given Emotion
We are created in ... (continued)

Taming the Tiger - Healthy Ways to Deal with Anger

If you experience anger, that's good. It means your emotions are operating the way God intended them to operate. But we instinctively know that we need to do something with our anger because left to its own, it will work against us. Anger can help us better understand ourselves and bring about positive change in our lives, but it can also have a very negative impact. Here are some steps you can take to help make anger work for you rather than against you.

Acknowledge Your Ange... (continued)

The Unloading Zone

Even with the phone held several inches from my ear, Ann's* voice could be heard by anyone in the room. Having just experienced yet another setback in her recovery from a below-the-knee amputation for cancer, I asked the question that burst her emotional dam. "How does that make you feel?" I asked. I should have put on rain gear!

At the Outreach of Hope we call it "unloading." It's the vital-and often unmet-need for people who are hurting to express their feelings and unload the em... (continued)

Living With Anger

I wasn't used to living with an angry husband. After Dave became a Christian, I saw him lose his temper only once. Even when he first got sick, Dave kept his anger under control. But when the pain and frustration really began to increase, Dave didn't know how to deal with it. That's when his emotional pain came out in expressions of anger.

Being the type of person I was, I hated anger. It scared me. I didn't like to see anyone angry, so I dealt with Dave's anger by trying to make eve... (continued)

The Many Disguises of Anger

Although we know that anger is an emotion that God gave us for self-protection and to help empower us to make positive changes in our lives, many of us think of anger only in its out-of-control state. Because of anger's "bad reputation," most of us have learned to disguise or hide our anger. To help uncover the many disguises of anger, we asked the Outreach of Hope staff, some cancer patients, and some caregivers how they respond to situations that make them angry. Do any of their "anger dis... (continued)

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