Experts are divided over an initiative that encourages people to count away their rage. What other methods could help you in a moment of fury?
When Mike Fisher, the director of the British Association of Anger Management, read about Take:90, an initiative that encourages people to count for 90 seconds when they feel stressed to prevent them getting angry, he felt furious. “I work with extremely angry people. If you’re as angry as them, waiting for 90 seconds isn’t going to help,” he says. The experts backing Take:90 argue that it takes 90 seconds for “feelings of anger to disappear from the brain” – but this could backfire for many people with an anger problem, says Prof Windy Dryden, the emeritus professor of psychotherapeutic studies at Goldsmiths, University of London: “For some people, it’s fine, but other people will ruminate and at the end of the 90 seconds, they will be even more angry.”
So, what can you do about your anger if the very idea of counting to 90 is making you twitch with rage? Therapy or an anger management programme can help – as can the following three approaches.
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