FInal Writing Assignment ; Anger

According to reading “THE ANGER FACTOR”, Author mentioned in the first paragraph that venting may up the heart-attack risk. I partially agree with that idea. The reason why it causes heart attack risk is that anger makes blood pressure get higher. As Dr. Murray Mittleman at Harvard said, anger cause heart attack twice as people who do not get angry easily. From my experience, people would have stress when they get angry to someone. Many diseases come from stress and it makes our body have bad symptom. In addition, violence make blood pressure move up from 2 to 6 millimeters.

In second reading “THE GREAT CATHARSIS DEBATE”, author talked about catharsis hypothesis. The hypothesis said that people keep being less angry and aggressive. As Thomas Scheff suggested that people can avoid keep having anger by laughing and crying and then feeling would be improved and become more comfortable. In my case, I do not get anger often. In other words, I am trying to avoid getting angry to someone. It is meaningless to have anger to someone and sometimes hit somebody. In particular, I agree that the situation may become worse than it was before when people express anger. Iraq war is exactly good example. It has started by anger which caused in September 11th. In progress of democratization, it has kept deteriorating security in Iraq. Thus, I do not agree Jack Hokanson and his Florida State Univerity colleague’s study that retaliation produces some catharsis.

I suggest that not only too much anger is not good for yourself but also dealing with your anger by your self is bad. I do not suggest to violent and retaliate by means of getting rid of your anger.