Examples of Anger Style called Acting Out

Is Acting Out your default Anger Style? Acting Out is the type of anger style where someone has some kind of extreme lashing out at another person or as a result of some particular incident or event. Without taking time to think, the person immediately reacts to their anger trigger(s) in some kind of extreme fashion. This person can be said to be ‘out of control’.

If you do one of these things, Acting Out may be your habitual anger style:

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Ten ways to change your habitual anger style

There are ten ways to change your habitual anger styles.

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Chain of Pain aka Victim-Victimizer Cycle

Quite often, when someone gets caught up in conflictual interactions with others, they join that unenviable process known as the chain of pain or the victim-victimizer cycle. Here is a classic example of how this might go.

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Your habitual anger style

What is your habitual anger style? When you are angry, which Anger Style do you typically default to?

Habits can be changed. When your anger is triggered, you are going to react in some way. That is your Anger Style. Your Anger Style is simply your habit. In other words, your Anger Style of either Acting out, Displaced Anger, Ignored Anger, or Avoidance has been your habitual practice in reacting to your Anger Trigger or Triggers. Since you can’t change other people, the only thing you CAN change is your reaction to what makes you angry.

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Anger Styles

There are four main types of anger styles: Acting Out, Displaced Anger, Ignored Anger, and Avoidance. Which anger style do you have? What anger style do the people around you have? Is there a better alternative?

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