Who Needs Anger Management
Statistics?
What is anger management? Anger Management is the name of a movie that is intended to be funny, and it is.
But there is nothing funny about real anger
management, it is a very serious
issue. Anger management is the process of managing your anger, or perhaps it is better explained using the
words controlling your anger.
While there are no public anger management statistics that could be found, there are studies about anger that
are very compelling when you are trying to see the importance of anger management.
One study by Anger Class Online showed the top five angriest cities in
the United States
are: No. 5 – Orlando, Fl; No. 4 – Johnson, AR; No. 3 – Los Angeles, CA; No. 2 – St. Louis, MO; and the No. 1 angriest city in the country is Detroit,
MI.
These anger management statistics are based on several different crime rate statistics, road rage statistics,
and their own anger management statistics based on sales of their anger management classes.
Anger control problems can affect your job and your relationships to a degree that you may not realize. The
inability to control your anger can escalate.
You hear about angry employees who go after their bosses with high powered semi automatic rifles
and end up killing 6 people and then himself once he realized what he had done.
These stories are on the news several times a year. Even more often you hear about cases of domestic violence
and child abuse that are a result of someone losing control of their anger. 42% of all female deaths from homicide
are the result of domestic violence.
Anger problems are not limited to adults who commit crimes and road rage, though.
Children can have anger control problems, too. The biggest problem with this is that many people don’t recognize
anger control problems in children or think that it’s just a phase and that the children will grow out of it.
However, even if it is a phase it needs to be dealt with.
If you look at the anger management statistics for children you will see that this is a very real problem.
According to the most recent report released from the US Department of Education, in the school year of 1999 to
2000 5.5% of school teachers were violently attacked by students and 10% of all elementary school kids who were
expelled from school were expelled because they brought a firearm to school. This is much more than just a
phase!
What is anger management? It is recognizing that you or someone you love has a problem controlling your anger
and getting help for it before it is too late.
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