Moving now to the ANGER response, it is probably the least understood emotional response. In fact, it’s probably the one we want to deny, like we don’t have it, that we should not have any anger in our lives. That is impossible, and actually not safe.

Typically, the ANGER response follows the FEAR response as in the "fight" reaction to fear, just like the flight reaction within the classic “fight-flight” reaction biologists have discussed for decades.

Seen from that point of you, the ANGER response is obviously protective, or, when under attack of any kind, one possible response is to become angry and fight off the attacker.

Typical words that mean or represent the ANGER response are mad, annoyed, disgusted, frustrated, defensive, and enraged.

Part of what we’ll talk about in future episodes is how to manage the normal and natural ANGER response, because knowing how and why it exists, will help you manage it as it occurs.

But to know that it is primary emotional response, a healthy and vital emotional response, is the beginning to managing the ANGER emotional response.