Why do some people habitually react with anger and rage to all kinds of situations? It could be something physical, like a brain injury or some other neurological problem. Most often, anger and rage is seen in people who have been violated, trapped, or stopped from being who they are or doing what theyneeded to do. They've been in situations where they don't see a choice or don't see a way out of a horrible or emotionally painful situation. Among many other things, this can include physical or sexual abuse or seeing others abused; experiencing a natural disaster, such as a tornado, earthquake or tsunami; or being kidnapped or held hostage. This kind of emotional pain often creates symptoms of PTSD.
It's Either Depression or Rage
It makes sense that, when we experience horrible things that we have no power to change or stop, we either despair and get depressed, or we get really angry - or both. These are all survival mechanisms. We need to do something with the feeling of utter helplessness so that we can survive it physically and emotionally.
PTSD
Living in a long-term helpless situation-such as children who are physically and sexually abused or who see one of their parents or siblings being harmed in this way-has long-term effects that stay in our bodies and nervous systems. That feeling of horror, powerlessness and helplessness is always there, either on the surface or underneath. That's also true of one-time events, such as the natural disasters or the kinds of horrible experiences I mentioned above. This is what's called PTSD, or Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. Whenever something happens that has even a small flavor of the original events, it "triggers," or evokes, the whole, huge awful feeling again. And the reaction to this can be anger or rage.
Rage is Survival, But It Costs Us
Although we can see that anger and rage originally served as a means of survival, if it keeps on coming up in a person, the cost is huge! It wrecks close relationships, it makes people lose their jobs, and it hurts! Each time someone gets triggered and goes through rage, they're traumatized all over again. The traumatic stress-all that fear, helplessness, trapped feeling-has again flooded the person. All that adrenaline floods the person again and again. This can lead to a number of stress diseases.
EFT Helps With PTSD Anger and Rage
I've had a lot of clients who have some level of anger where they're holding emotional pain from the past. EFT Tapping is usually very helpful in healing from PTSD and calming the body and nervous system, so that previously triggering experiences are more like distant pictures. The painful PTSD reaction is gone!
Zoe Zimmermann, MA, LPC is a Certified EFT Practitioner and long-time licensed psychotherapist. She uses EFT Tapping as her modality for fast breakthroughs with core issues and specializes in clients who suffer with PTSD from accidents, surgeries, abuse, dysfunctional family dynamics, other traumas and physical pain.
EFT is an exceptionally effective energy psychology and alternative therapy, where EFT Tapping on acupuncture meridian pressure points is used to take emotional charge out of traumatic and painful memories and experiences, often alleviating pain.
Zoe conducts in-person, phone or Skype sessions. Schedule a session now by calling 303-444-1195 or visit Zoe Zimmermann's website.
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