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When really angry or annoyed do you:

1. Try to act as though nothing happened?

2. Keep it to yourself?

Also Today Getting mad A new study shows women can keep anger in and still be OK. By Amy Standen

3. Apologize even though you are right?

4. Get it off your chest?

5. Talk to a friend or relative?

6. Take it out on others?

7. Blame someone else?

8. Get tense or worried?

9. Get a headache?

10. Feel weak?

11. Feel depressed?

12. Get nervous or shaky?

Those with high scores on questions 1-3 are categorized as "Anger/In"

Those with high scores on questions 4 and 5 exhibit "Anger Discussion" (the "healthier alternative")

Those with high scores on questions 6 and 7 are categorized as "Anger/Out"

Those with high scores on questions 8-12 have strong "Anger Symptoms" (exhibit signs of unhealthy anger management).
salon.com | March 22, 2000

Excerpted from the Framingham Heart Study, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute

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