Anger is good for you, not really..

A nice study on how people reacted angry, fared better emotionally than people who reacted with fear in the same situation… Obviously its a limited study, and it can’t be generalized that in every face in life… anger > fear… But it brings up a good point, which is that anger isn’t some emotion that’s completely bad and useless. We used to assume its some sort of an evolutionary glitch, turns out it might not be.

Anger is Good For You | LiveScience

Go ahead, get angry

So in maddening situations in which anger or indignation are justified, anger is not a bad idea, the thinking goes. In fact, it’s adaptive, Lerner says, and it’s a healthier response than fear.

Chronic, explosive anger or a hostile outlook on the world is still bad for you, contributing to heart disease and high blood pressure, research shows.

The new research supports the idea that humans have more than one uniform response to stress and that fear and anger provoke different responses from our nervous systems and the parts of our brain, such as the pituitary, that deal with tough situations.