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     Anger management is something we all joke about whenever we get mad. But what happens when a sudden burst of rage overcomes you and all you an see is red? The blood is tingling through your veins, you cant really see straight but at the same time you are pinned up focused on the trigger. This was the case for Jason, a man who would be diagnosed with Interment Explosive Disorder, an impulse control disorder that is described as "explosive outbursts of anger and violence". Jason hurt a man one day when he started to talk bad about his family. Though one could say this guy had it coming for him, Jason's rage almost ended the man's life and in that had to go to counseling in order to learn to control his anger. This blog is to express the thanks to the psychologist who changed this mans life and is the reason he can still live an everyday life and not have to live behind bars.
     Jason could not remember the ladies name who helped him through his time in his life but he seemed extremely thankful whenever he spoke of her. Jason met once a week for 6 months and in the beginning he started by describing the situation that had brought him here in the first place. He explained everything from his day to the climax of the situation. In this time he explained that his day was prior to the event an extremely good day but that one trigger had sent him into an anger spell. He said he couldn't even remember the event all the could remember were the words. After discussing this the psychologist then began to dig into his childhood and in this they found the root of the problem. She would ask him things like how he dealt with his anger up until then and he would tell her how he had always kind of had a short temper and was always able to get up and leave the setting and he would eventually calm down. This was a problem on the particular event though because he was at work and he had to be there. The psychologist explained to him that there were no problems in his brain but the habits he had formed as a child that grew into reactions as an adult. She explained to him that improper management leads to this disorder and that she was not trying to cure him of anger rather than channel it into something else. Throughout these four months the psychologist taught Jason that simply putting his hands in his pockets and having something in their to fidget with could take his mind off of it enough to calm down. Jason Explains that he can still feel the episodes emerging sometimes when someone angers him but he is able to deal with it through the techniques that were taught to him by his psychologist. He thinks he could very easily be in jail today if it wasn't for seeing this counselor and being able to learn how to properly vent the situation.
     As you can see the psychologist was able to talk through the situation with the patient and then from there begin to tie it to past experiences and tie it together to make it easier to recognize the underlying problems causing this. She was then able to show him routines to follow in an episode to counter his negative reactions to anger. This is crucial for many people with this mans disorder because without a way to express these compulsive they could turn for the worst.