Check Your Anger

• Does your anger make trouble for you? If you check five or more of the items below, your level of anger may be harmful to you or others.

• When I become angry I react impulsively and without thinking.

• When someone I know is angry and upset, I also become angry and upset.

• I am easily embarrassed and humiliated, and when I feel these emotions I become angry.

• I become upset easily and find it hard to calm down once I become emotional.

• I often have to apologize to others for losing my temper.

• Once I am upset, I`m unable to give myself time to recover my composure.

• I don`t seem to know my emotional limits, so my anger is triggered easily and without warning.

• People have told me I am verbally abusive and I have occasionally been physically abusive with others or have struck out by hitting a wall or breaking things.

• I feel guilty for having negative feelings and being angry, but these feelings keep coming back.