![]() Man, so simple… how did we not know this?! And how did modern science totally overlook this easy formula for curing depression? Sarcasm HEAVILY intended of course. But I am interested in the comment made about breaking down or getting rid of those frozen anger thoughts. I agree with you! Telling someone to just feel good and spread joy is not an answer that works, at least not for me. Questions or concerns about the preceding article can be directed to the author or posted as a comment below. Any views and opinions expressed are not necessarily shared by. The preceding article was solely written by the author named above. Start here to find a therapist near you who can help. While feelings of anger caused by depression can feel overwhelming, the support of a therapist helps many people work through these feelings and address their depression in a healthy way. In either case, the person may be depressed and suffering and probably will continue to suffer until their frozen feelings are safely unlocked, expressed, and resolved. Someone who never feels or expresses anger may have frozen anger. Someone who feels and/or expresses only anger probably has frozen hurt, fear, shame, guilt, or sadness. One way to look at this is that “frozen” feelings are often at the root of depression. Usually, as long as a person sticks with the anger, they are stuck in the depression. When anger is helpfully expressed and begins to resolve, it almost always dissolves into tears and more vulnerable feelings. In fact, anger almost always covers or is accompanied by hurt, sadness, or fear. Even people whose parents used them for their own needs, without concern for their child’s emotional needs, may carry chronic anger that covers the hurt, sadness, and fear. Police officers can have a similar experience, as can people who grow up with angry or sadistic parents who repeatedly abuse them. Coming home with all of this, it’s not hard to understand why a veteran would be depressed, or why they would express it through domestic violence, picking fights, or even just caustic cynicism. It’s probable the anger develops this way in order to protect the person from further abuse and from the painful feelings of sadness, hurt, and fear that were also a part of the traumatic experience.Ĭlassic examples of depression expressed as anger include veterans who come home from combat with the experiences of terror of imminent death, sadness from losing friends who were killed, and systematic emotional training to channel all these feelings into anger, revenge, and warfare. When that happens, people feel angry a great deal of the time, and the anger isn’t just anger anymore-it becomes a way of life. So anger may linger as a symptom of posttraumatic stress or may become incorporated into a person’s personality over time. When someone has been abused or traumatized, they certainly have reason to be angry and often don’t have a chance to express it when the trauma occurs.
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