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Feeling the Anger, You Were Denied in Childhood
You deserve to be angry
Anger is a healthy emotion that all humans experience. Anger is a way for us to tell if we are in danger and allows us to respond quickly.
Much has been written about anger and how it is sometimes repressed because it is not safe to express it, such as in a dysfunctional home. This article will be no different as we explore repressed anger, its reasons, and how to mitigate its effects on your life.
What is a Dysfunctional Home?
If you now live with complex post-traumatic stress disorder in your life, you likely lived in a dysfunctional home as a child.
A dysfunctional home is characterized by adult family members being subject to conflict, misbehavior, neglect, or abuse perpetrated against their children. Relationships in the dysfunctional home are tense and filled with yelling, screaming, and out-of-control anger.
The expression of healthy anger by children in a dysfunctional home is forbidden and even dangerous. These children will grow up with unexpressed anger seething below the surface and haunting their adult lives.
Unexpressed anger, as we shall see later, becomes repressed but does not disappear — instead, it goes underground.
