Is Anger Learned or Inherited?

know that intelligence, patience, kindness and hardwork could be heriditary. Beauty ofcourse is passed from a parent to a child. I have even heard that some mental illness could be as a result of a genetic connection between parent and offspring. Like wise height, eye color, baldness, sickle cell anaemia and a host of others that run in the lineage.

Recently, I am beginning to hear that anger could also be a transmittable character too. A young man could display a terrible anger and a elder would comment, " his father was also a very angry person, he did such and such at the age of 20", or " his grandfather was very hot tempered ".

Scientifically speaking, anger is more of a learned behavior than an inherited trait. A child is always born into love and kindness and he learns or gets more love and kindness in the family he grows. Although, some environmental and emotional factors might make him adapt to other traits in the journey of survival. Fear and anger are acquired by an individual as he continue to evolve.

Don't forget that anger is hardly the primary feeling. Sadness, dissappoitment, depression, loneliness, anxiety are most times the basic cause of anger. A negative emotion tends to give rise to another negative emotion that would be physically expressed in it's place.

That's why sometimes when I see a display of anger, I usually feel sorry for the individual instead of rebuking them. Especially when I know a person could be a kind and loving person every other day.

I understand that there could definitely be something wrong in his/her life presently and they are doing their best to mask it. But now the individual has been pushed to the limit that he/she just have to vent out some of these frustration.

Does this helps? Ofcourse not. It only makes things worse for them and others more than it already is.

A person who is prone to anger is really passing through alot and might not have anybody to talk to. He/she might be feeling unloved especially when that person begin to make a mental comparison between themselves and others.

So, it is always advisable to encourage siblings d children to communicate their troubles with a parent, teacher or elder and talk freely about their emotions and deepest fears.

Maybe someone might believe that his anger issues are heriditary and could be passed to his children, or maybe his child have already been inclined to anger.

If this is the case, it is left to that person to break the yoke of that destructive emotion that has been plaguing his family through all means possible. Either by exercising discipline/self control, patience, seeking the assistance of an expert or even through a spiritual procedure. Don't forget that you are a model and star to your kids. It is your responsibility to ensure that they enjoy a peaceful and fufilled life. It is your responsibility to save the next generation!

I don't even want to begin to talk about all the consequences and irreparable damages both physical and emotional that comes after anger.

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