Do You Have Problems Controlling Anger?

Do you ever get so mad you lose control? Unresolved conflict severely limits your closeness to others and hinders communication. Your anger can build until it becomes open rage or private depression.

You can learn to handle conflict in fair and safe ways. Lutheran Family Services' counselors can help you explore your situations, explore your feelings about those situations, determine what you are really angry about, and help you resolve your conflicts.

Our counselors can help you clarify issues, help you learn to listen respectfully, and help you develop ways of negotiating differences. With these skills, conflicts are no longer a battle zone but an opportunity for you to understand others. People can grow together through conflict!

Do you handle your anger in the following negative ways?

• Keeping quiet but harboring resentment
• Blaming or criticizing others
• Demanding that others respond to you
• Avoiding conflicts
• Yelling
• Overeating, over-drinking, overspending
• Arguing to prove you are right
• Taking flight
• Finding ways to get even

If one or more of these statements sounds like you or a loved one, consider talking with a counselor at one of Lutheran Family Services' office locations.