Anger Management: Mature Ways Of Dealing With Anger

The most important step in anger management is realizing if you are easily provoked and have an angry personality, and learning to take responsibility for your responses to anger and irritation. 

Angry people live with high levels of frustration, but good anger management techniques allow them to learn to keep their aggravation under control, by accepting their temperament, and accepting the responsibility of dealing with it, by learning anger management techniques to deal with the cues and triggers that can quickly turn to anger.


By practicing stress management techniques regularly, and using physical exercise to work off their irritation, they are able to recognize the beginning signs of anger, and take a time out to chill out, minimizing the likelihood of venting their anger on others.

Mature people try to practice positive ways to deal with their anger in an argument. One positive way to deal with anger against loved ones is to make a contract that they can leave during a fight, whenever they feel that they might lose control.
Just go to a private place for time out. In private they do damage control techniques like waiting out the initial rush of the anger, and trying to think from the other person’s viewpoint, to bring their anger level down and then return to deal with the problem.

Accepting that you have an anger prone personality and recognizing the need to actively work toward anger management in order to live a happier life, makes the difference in managing anger successfully.

A commitment to study and take parenting classes to seek more effective ways of disciplining their children, taking anger management classes, and participating in couples counseling, helps to learn better ways of being with the people they work and live with.

Some people with high degrees of frustration keep tabs on themselves and work at diffusing their anger responses, through positive anger management methods; because their conscience tells them that their outbursts hurt others.

Some people recognize that they are acting out angry responses they learned from their own parents, and sending that legacy down to their own children. Some get help because their partner gives them the ultimatum of threatening to leave them if they don't get help. A few get help only after they lose their spouse and families, but sadly, some never learn anger management methods that could save their families, if not their own lives.