Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Anger can be like a houseguest that overstays its welcome, transforming our usual behaviors into reactions we barely recognize.

Do you ever get angry at your spouse? For most of us, the answer is a resounding yes. We're human, after all, and anger is a normal human emotion. But while feeling angry isn't inherently bad, anger ...

While we strongly want to express our anger, we were taught to feel bad about our anger. This is why it may be surprising to many that feeling angry isn't a character defect. In fact, anger serves an ...

Though a lot of us think of anger as a limiting or mostly negative emotion, there are times it can be useful. "Anger can be helpful when it signals that something isn’t right or needs to change," says ...

Anger is the kind of feeling people try to tamp down, out of fear that it will ignite and explode. Pretending your anger doesn't exist causes it to compress itself, making a home in the small space of ...

I'm permitting myself to feel and sit with my anger over how much society demands of wives and mothers. I had a lot to feel angry about last year. I’ve had a lot to feel angry about in other years, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. While it's difficult to navigate the intense anger your ...