Making Your Own Anger Thermometer: A Tool to Help Control Anger
Lisa Coleman
Perhaps you’re familiar with tropes about anger in cartoons. It’s probably more prevalent in older cartoons, but there was always a scene in which a character gets angry at something or someone. Maybe they’re in a frustrating situation, or they are interacting with someone annoying. The cartoons depict them like a kettle that’s on the boil, heating up until they blow their top. That, or they turn red until they explode. An anger thermometer might be able to help. In their own way, these shows were trying to depict anger in a comical but real way. We’ve all likely felt it at one point or another: feelings of mild irritation...
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