People get mad. We all do at some point. I get mad a lot too, but in different types of situations. In an article I’ve read, psychologists say there are four types of madness and I feel like I fit into two of the categories. The four main types of madness include bad-mad, angry-mad, sad-mad, and glad-mad.
According to the article I read, on the ‘Four Types of Madness,’ sad-mad people tend to self-blame. People like this react in ways where they get into their feelings, hurt emotionally, and think or over think about their situation. I consider myself in this category because sometimes I blame myself for the things I do and let happen in my life and I over think about it. When I am sad-mad I have a worried face like when you lost something important like the homework due today or when you misplace your phone. When I feel like this it affects me to think because I tend to view outcomes to why I’m mad and imagine negative results. I realize
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I believe I fall into this type of madness as well because glad-mad people tend to be happy throughout life’s ups and downs. According to the article, glad-mad people live in the moment and never regret the past or what is coming their way. I feel I’m glad-mad most of the time because I live in the moment and I don’t let anger drive me, I just go along with what God has planned for me and the obstacles he gives to me. Sometimes I just don’t let anger affect me, I feel like it’s bad luck staying mad. I suppose it’s bad luck because you can forget what’s important and miss out on your day. Anger can influence people throughout their lives if they focus on just being mad. They can be fed up with a madness that can turn to an illness, which is what I worry about because I wouldn’t like to be mad all the time. I would like to focus on the importance, which for me is to be happy with what I got because not everything could be resolved by staying
Just because the sun is bright and shining in the summer does not mean that people are at their happiest moment. It is a regular hot summer’s day where you wake up to a hot apartment due to a broken A/C. The sun is not even completely out and you are already sweating, starting your day with the wrong foot. You lose time trying to see what is going on with your air conditioning system. As if your luck could not get any worse, your car’s A/C is broken as well. So, by now, you are late for work and completely sweaty, but finally on your way. While driving to work you take the route you take every morning and to your surprise one of the roads is closed due to an accident that happened earlier. A police officer that is controlling traffic approaches your car and asks you to please back your car and take another road. At this time you explode and you snap at the police officer. Why this aggression? It could be by the series of unfortunate events you just experienced, or maybe something else could be influencing your behavior. Research has shown that emotional aggressive outbursts are frequently caused by harsh or unpleasant events such as provocation, frustration, uncomfortable temperatures, loud noise, unpleasant odors, and smoke. (Anderson, Groom,
When angry, it is hard for a person to see the damage they are doing. Concepts of revenge, murder, jealousy, greed, selfishness, rage, resentment, and hatred are all offspring to what anger can become if allowed to grow (Potter-Efron, 2). In some cases, anger is the result of feelings of helplessness and a desire to regain power in life (Glick and Steven, 103). Anger is not completely evil, but there are dire consequences if we let ourselves be corrupted by its influence. Loss of life, or losing the love of someone close to you can instantly make you regret your actions while angry.
What is madness? Is madness a brain disorder or a chemical imbalance? On the other hand, is it an expressed behavior that is far different from what society would believe is "normal"? Lawrence Durrell addresses these questions when he explores society's response to madness in his short story pair "Zero and Asylum in the Snow," which resembles the nearly incoherent ramblings of a madman. In these stories, Durrell portrays how sane, or lucid, people cannot grasp and understand the concept of madness. This inability to understand madness leads society to fear behavior that is different from "normal," and subsequently, this fear dictates how they deal with it. These responses include putting a name to what they fear and locking it up in an effort to control it. Underlying all, however, Durrell repeatedly raises the question: who should define what is mad?
... depression may seem no different from ordinary people, but they often feel lonely and depressed. Manic patients are more impulsive and often breaking things, being violent, sometimes might hurt other people. The reason of causing mental illness may be because of genes- internal factors, such as people inherit from their family. In other words, it happened before in this family. Or external factors, long-term pressure or abrupt event, such as natural disasters and accident, and other psychological factors that lead patients to have mental problem.
If we are too focused on ourselves we could miss out on opportunities to help others that are also facing tough situations. In the article Happiness: Enough Already, Sharon Begley quotes Eric Wilson by saying that “the happy man is a hollow man,” meaning that happy people only tend to care about themselves rather than others. This shows that “being happier is not always better” (Begley 455-456) because it is not good to just be happy and not have any other emotions or emotions towards others. When we are happy we are also quicker to jump to conclusions and stereotypes, which can hurt people's’ feelings but we do not care because we only are focused on ourselves and our own happiness.Begley also quotes Ed Diener by writing that “You need negative emotions, including sadness, to direct your thinking,” which shows that if you are just happy all of the time you will not be able to think efficiently. Begley quotes Wilson again by saying that “the blues [,or sadness,] can be a catalyst for a special kind of genius,” (Begley 456). A countless amount of great works have come from sad people such as Vincent Van Gogh, Emily DIckinson, and many other talented, very well respected, artistic geniuses. If they never would have experienced sadness or other emotions rather than just happiness they would not have achieved the great success that they
...e person feel better at a certain point. The amount of anger a person feels at this stage is inexorable. Doctors, nurses, closed ones and every other person; are victimized by the person’s anger whether or not they are at fault. Even the law of nature is faulty of completing its course. Kubler-Ross and Kessler defined anger as being an anchor and “giving temporary structure to the nothingness of loss.” Anger is meaningful in the light of darkness. Anger encompasses feelings such as love, regret, guilt and hope.
According to Seneca, anger is a bad thing that can destroy the universe, and he argued that one had to be reasonable and get rid of anger in order to achieve a state of mind not subject to emotions (Kim 2). To Rene Descartes anger is the most dangerous emotion, and it is more violent than other emotions(55).
Whether that be because a coworker has been a complete crap to you all day, or your kid didn’t listen to you and ended up getting hurt for the thousandth time in a row, to getting ultimately stressed and frustrated because your teachers didn’t enter in grades and denies any proof of that occurring, we’ve all been there. When I’ve seen others get angry, they become confrontational or even start yelling, some people that I know of even throw things either at the people that they are angry at, or at other areas, such as walls. There are four different types of angry people: the avoiders, who avoid the situation completely and ignore their anger, bottling it up; the destroyers, who throw things out of anger in order to relieve it; the screamers, who scream, yell or even just become straightforward and rude either towards the person that they are angry towards; the avengers, who come up with plans to get back at the person who angered them, though most times those people don’t actually go through with their villainy plots. The ‘trigger’s, or the things that set people off to become angry, vary from person to person. In my experience, most triggers come from when someone does something that truly peeves them, which could be anything from loud noises to the mood that the other person has towards
On Wednesday nights I sing in the praise band at my church and it really makes me angry when people do not take worship time seriously, also it makes me feel as if I am not doing good enough. In the future, I believe I can calm this anger by giving it all to God and not pay attention to the nonsense around me. Another situation I get angry in is when I am up to bat at a softball game and I strike out, I believe in the future I can focus on the game and think about my team instead of how I am doing.
Throughout the play, there were certain cases that crafted the idea that Hamlet may have been mad. When he killed Polonius, Hamlet says "How now! a rat? Dead for a ducat, dead!" (III.IV). At this point it becomes really hard to tell if Hamlet is really insane because he kills without examining who was hiding behind the curtains, but only assumed that it was Claudius. Furthermore when he says "Dead for a ducat" he is betting that the person he attacked was dead and people that are sane don't bet on others life. Another instance where Hamlet may have been mad was when he followed the ghost, but his friends try to stop him but he responds with "Still am I called. Unhand me, gentlemen-- Heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me! I say, away" (I.IV). Hamlet decides to follow the ghost without a second thought if the ghost may be a devil or may bring him harm. The way Hamlet responds to the situation, rash and without a thought, are the similar characteristics of a mad man. At this point his madness appears very real but it could all be part of his plan to avenge his father's death by making people really believe his was insane making it less obvious of his real inte...
Tafrate , R. C., Kassinove , H., & Dundin , L. (2002). Anger Episodes in High- and Low-Trait-Abger Community Adults. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 58(12), 1573-1590.
According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) (2013) mental illness is defined as a health
Anger is an immediate reaction to an obstacle. It is a strong negative emotion of displeasure, hostility or fury that might occur to anyone on any occasion. Anger generates other bad feelings such as fear, disgust, shame, irritability, outrage, hostility and even violence and the aggressive response it generates can harm you. Anger is a punishment to you for somebody's fault.
This can either be a positive or negative thing and how you act on it, or do not act, can show how in control and effective you are with your feelings. According to the text, “just because you feel a certain way does not mean you have to act on it” and that “people who act out angry feelings actually feel worse than those who experience anger without lashing out” (Adler, Rosenfeld, Proctor II, year?). Even though acting on your feelings may seem uncontrollable, it is important to deal with them in a different and more productive way. Recognizing how you feel and using the right approach during a constructive conversation is always better than quickly lashing out without completely understanding the situation or how you feel besides angry. Furthermore, “recognizing the difference between feeling and acting can liberate you from the fear that getting in touch with certain emotions will commit you to a course of action” (Adler, Rosenfeld, Proctor II, year?). Understanding your emotions is important so that you will be able to experience feelings that may upset you and still be able to deal with them from a positive standpoint. Once you can separate your feelings from actions you will be able to make more rational
After the birth of my first child, I had to learn to develop constructive ways to vent anger. One of those ways was to go off alone, count to ten, and think about what it was that made me angry. After I discovered the root of my anger, I often asked myself, "Will it do me or anyone else any good to be angry?", and, "Will being angry do anything to solve the problem", and the answer to both questions was usually no. By the time I had done the walking and thinking, I was usually not angry anymore.