To develop a healthier relationship with anger, one must first understand how anger became frightening; understand that there is a distinction between the feeling of anger and violent expression of anger; tolerate angry feelings rather than allowing them to emerge as symptoms.

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Alain de Botton

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understand how is it that anger came to be so frightening... There's the act of anger and then there's the feeling of anger

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Alain de Botton on A THERAPEUTIC JOURNEYThe School of Life
Created: 8/12/2026, 10:13:11 PM

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