Anger and Mental Health?

We all know how mad Jesus became in the temple story, right? We know that Jesus turned the tables over, and whipped all the people doing illegal transactions in the House of God, right?

It is a human thing to get angry, right?

So, why are the so-called experts in mental health brainwashing ignorant people in our society by saying that anger is related to mental health issues?

I guess Jesus had BIPOLAR for what He did in the temple and needed to see a psychiatrist, right?

Why can people simply get angry WITHOUT (I Said WITHOUT) being classified as insane?

Can you answer this question professionally?

First, I am not a mental health professional. However, people can get angry without being classified insane. It is not the actual anger that is the problem, as you said everyone gets angry. I think what creates problems is how the anger is expressed. When anger sets in it is good to step back from the trigger before reacting.

Anger is not mentally ill. Anger is something natural we all have. It is healthy to be angry sometimes - it is only mentally ill when you are angry at an inappropriate time or if you are angry ALL the time.

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it is perfectly ok to be angry. Speaking off the top of my head, It is a "mental health issue" when you handle your anger destructively to the point that it interferes with your life. It is what you DO with your anger that deems it a mental health issue or not. And you talk like an idiot.

There is no problem about feeling angry. In fact, it's completely crucial - if we didn't get angry, we wouldn't know when people were treating us badly or things were wrong. What becomes problematic isn't feeling angry, but what we then do with that. For some people, anger is completely overwhelming, they are taken over by it and unable to think, and become violent. For others, anger is felt as being totally unacceptable so they swallow it and swallow it until they don't even really know they are angry - often, they become utterly depressed as a complete dulling of all emotion in order not to feel angry. Some people have been unable to tackle the things they are really angry about (eg a son whose father bullied him and treated him like rubbish, and who was too scared of his father to say 'no'), and then having pushed all the anger into a box, it explodes over idiotically tiny things, with them shouting at people who really don't deserve it (road rage is frequently like this).

Appropriate anger (which includes Jesus's actions in the temple, which he only did once, right?) does not result in people getting labelled as insane or as having any mental health issues. If you can know about your anger at the time and let it inform you saying 'no, that isn't OK', then you have a healthy relationship with your anger. It is repeated, uncontrolled, inappropriate expressions of anger that are the alerting symptoms of mental health problems. After all, if someone is forever flying off the handle and upsetting the people around them, including those who love them, they're not going to be feeling great, are they?

Anger is definitely not a mental health issue. Just as every sad person isn't chronically depressed. There's nothing wrong with being angry- until it gets abusive. But I'll tell you, there are plenty of super-happy people that HAVE TO BE insane...haha.

Sometimes we don't have control of our feelings -- they are just so strong that we have to share them -- even if we would rather not. Sadness & anger & even joy are all examples of this. Feelings must be expressed.

In society, you must not show extreme emotions in public or you may be viewed as insane -- it may not be right, it's just a fact. Remember, there is a time & a place for everything.

If our emotions are always on the cutting edge and we cannot behave in a civilized manner when out in public, we have a chance that someone may send us to the shrink -- call it a form of social control. Look at some of the Arab countries & what good does their being pissed off all of the time get them? Constant war???

Sometimes extreme emotions are completely justified and even normal. Just because you see a mental health expert doesn't mean you are insane. If they are any good, they'll just help you figure out why you are so pissed & maybe learn new techniques to express your feelings.

Peace & love to you!