Anger Management and Chris Brown

Anger management is important in maintaining relationships between people because someone's bad temper could result into someone getting badly hurt or killed. Everyone gets mad sometimes, and anyone can develop a bad temper when things go wrong. This article discusses how someone can get help and where to get help.

A chronic state of being angry could result into high blood pressure and other health problems. Additionally, not properly expressing anger could lead to depression. Fortunately, there are different ways to manage anger at a more healthy level.

According to Charles Spielberger, Ph.D., an expert in anger, some infants are born with characteristics that make them easily angered as children. Low tolerance of frustration, anger as learned behavior from family background and not knowing how to handle anger can lead to chronic anger.

There are eight ways of managing anger: relaxation, cognitive restructuring, solving problems with help of professionals and other people, improving communication, using humor, changing one's environment, counseling and assertiveness training can help someone reduce anger.

Chris Brown, a R&B singer, lost his temper at home with his girlfriend, Rihanna, which resulted into injuries that sent Rihanna to the hospital.

Because of his temper, Chris Brown had to go to court and plead guilty for hurting Rihanna-court was on Aug. 25, 2009 at Los Angeles Superior Court. Photo: AP/Chris Pizzello

Brown took anger-management classes before his court date and ended up getting five years of probation and 6 months of community labor.

Chris Brown and Attorney Mark Geragos in Court on August 25, 2009.  Photo: AP/Rick Loomis, Pool

A person feels angry when he or she feels fed up easily, annoyed, irritable, or any other negative emotion, according to Harvard Medical School. Therefore, anger does not always involve someone throwing objects and swearing. Someone who is angry all the time can appear withdrawn or physically ill, according to American Psychological Association.

Anger is one of the risk factors of a heart attack or deadly arrhythmias due to high blood pressure, according to many studies done at Harvard Medical School, other medical institutes and news media outlets.