Anger is important

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Anger is often viewed as negative, but I’ve recently read a Japanese article in which anger is seen as the first feeling that will come out when you begin to accept your feelings.

They said that feelings are stuck up in order. From top to bottom: anger, sadness, joy, then fun.

So if you want to feel joy and have fun, you need to first accept your anger/let yourself express anger.

For people who have been repressing their feelings for long, or people who feel numb, the first feeling they experience is often anger or irritations when they begin to try to feel. That’s actually a good sign but they or people around them see it as negative so they repress it again, and go into a vicious circle. But if you see it as positive and let it out in an appropriate manner, you’ll then experience sadness, and eventually joy and fun.

I’m putting all this in a very simple words but I hope you’ll get the idea.

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I often feel angry about having this illness, and then it passes as a relief…

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I think it’s a natural reaction, I often felt anger about this illness too. Anger is a strong energy, it can even be hope that we have such strong energy that can be turned to anything meaningful

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You’re right, great way to think about it.

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In AA they say that ‘Anger is the dubious luxury of normal people’. Or something to that effect. Dubious luxury.

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It depends on the type of anger. I remember being very angry when I was an adolescent. A great many young men are angry. I guess it’s a part of growing up for a lot of us. I don’t think we need to be hotheads about it. If you can channel your anger into something useful that is good. But anger for the sake of anger isn’t so great.

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