Rage can sometimes lead to a state of mind where the individuals 
experiencing it believe they can do, and often are capable of doing, things 
that may normally seem physically impossible. Those experiencing rage 
usually feel the effects of high adrenaline levels in the body. This 
increase in adrenal output raises the physical strength and endurance 
levels of the person and sharpens their senses, while dulling the sensation 
of pain. High levels of adrenaline impair memory. Temporal perspective is 
also affected: people in a rage have described experiencing events in 
slow-motion. Time dilation occurs due to the individual becoming hyper 
aware of the hind brain (the seat of fight or flight).[*citation needed*] 
Rational thought and reasoning would inhibit an individual from acting 
rapidly upon impulse. An older explanation of this "time dilation" effect 
is that instead of actually slowing our perception of time, high levels of 
adrenaline increase our ability to recall specific minutiae of an event 
after it occurs. Since humans gauge time based on the number of things they 
can remember, high-adrenaline events such as those experienced during 
periods of rage seem to unfold more slowly.[4]
ati rage 6

*Download File ❤ https://geags.com/2zNJw7 <https://geags.com/2zNJw7>*


A person in a state of rage may also lose much of their capacity for 
rational thought and reasoning, and may act, usually violently, on their 
impulses to the point that they may attack until they themselves have been 
incapacitated or the source of their rage has been destroyed or otherwise 
removed. A person in rage may also experience tunnel vision, muffled 
hearing, increased heart rate, and hyperventilation. Their vision may also 
become "rose-tinted" (hence "seeing red"). They often focus only on the 
source of their anger. The large amounts of adrenaline and oxygen in the 
bloodstream may cause a person's extremities to shake. Psychiatrists 
consider rage to be at one end of the spectrum of anger, and annoyance to 
be at the other side.[5]

In 1995, rage was hypothesized to occur when oxytocin, vasopressin, and 
corticotropin-releasing hormone are rapidly released from the hypothalamus. 
This results in the pituitary gland producing and releasing large amounts 
of the adrenocorticotropic hormone, which causes the adrenal cortex to 
release corticosteroids. This chain reaction occurs when faced with a 
threatening situation.[6]

Nearly two decades later, more came to be known about the impacts of high 
epinephrine. Studies suggest glucose, together with epinephrine from the 
adrenal medulla have an effect on memory. Although high doses of 
epinephrine have been proven to impair memory, moderate doses of 
epinephrine actually enhance memory.[7] This leads to questioning the role 
that epinephrine has played on the evolution of the genus Homo as well as 
epinephrine's crucial role during fits of rage. The crucial role that 
astrocytes play in the formation of muscle memory may also shed light on 
the beneficial impact of meditation and deep breathing as a method of 
managing and controlling one's rage.

Some research suggests that an individual is more susceptible to having 
feelings of depression and anxiety if he or she experiences rage on a 
frequent basis. Health complications become much worse if an individual 
represses feelings of rage.[8] John E. Sarno believes that repressed rage 
in the subconscious leads to physical ailments. Cardiac stress and 
hypertension are other health complications that may occur when rage is 
experienced on a regular basis.[9] Psychopathologies, such as depression 
and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)[10] regularly present comorbidly 
with rage.[11]

Evidence has shown that behavioral and cognitive therapy techniques have 
assisted individuals that have difficulties controlling their anger or 
rage. Role playing and personal study are the two main techniques used to 
aid individuals with managing rage. Role playing is utilized by angering an 
individual to the point of rage and then showing them how to control 
it.[12] Multi-modal cognitive therapy is another treatment used to help 
individuals cope with anger. This therapy teaches individuals relaxation 
techniques, problem solving skills, and techniques on response disruption. 
This type of therapy has proven to be effective for individuals that are 
highly stressed and are prone to rage.[13]

According to psychologists, rage is an in-born behavior that every person 
exhibits in some form. Rage is often used to denote 
hostile/affective/reactive aggression.[15] Rage tends to be expressed when 
a person faces a threat to their pride, position, ability to deceive 
others, self-deceptive beliefs, or socioeconomic status.[16]

Cases in which rage is exhibited as a direct response to an individual's 
deeply held religious beliefs, may directly be related to cognitive 
dissonance in relation to an individual's ability to manage the terror 
associated with death and dying. Many researchers have questioned whether 
Hindu/Buddhist concepts, such as reincarnation and nibbna, help ease death 
anxieties. Coleman and Ka-Ying Hui (2012) stated that "according to the 
Terror Management Theory, a religious concept of an afterlife helps people 
manage their personal death anxiety" (949). This suggests that rage, in 
relation to religious ideas, may stem from an inability to manage feelings 
of terror.

Some psychologists, however, such as Bushman and Anderson, argue that the 
hostile/predatory dichotomy that is commonly employed in psychology fails 
to define rage fully, since it is possible for anger to motivate 
aggression, provoking vengeful behavior, without incorporating the 
impulsive thinking that is characteristic of rage. They point to 
individuals or groups such as Seung-Hui Cho in the Virginia Tech massacre 
or Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold of the Columbine High School massacre, all 
of whom clearly experienced intense anger and hate, but whose planning 
(sometimes over periods of years), forethought, and lack of impulsive 
behavior is readily observable.[17]

Bob Woodward is an associate editor at *The Washington Post*, where he has 
worked for more than 50 years. He has shared in two Pulitzer Prizes, one 
for his Watergate coverage and the other for coverage of the 9/11 terrorist 
attacks. He has authored 21 bestselling books, 15 of which have been #1 *New 
York Times *bestsellers.

Comment after comment poured out judgment and disdain. It made me sick. I 
had to stop reading before I gave in to the temptation to rain fire in 
response to every comment. Instead, I decided to address them here all at 
once.

And it does take strength and courage. To imply that it is weakness that 
drives someone who has lost their spouse to choose to love again is 
asinine. Unlike most, those who have been widowed are hyper aware that 
everyone they see will someday die. We know intimately that the price of 
love is pain. So if you see a widow or widower overcome that knowledge and 
choose to open their heart to that pain once again, instead of judging, you 
should be celebrating their bravery and fortitude. That much courage 
deserves a freaking parade.

Ps. Mr.Oswalt, if this somehow gets to you, from one widow to another, I 
would like to say congratulations from the bottom of my heart. I am so 
incredibly happy for you and I hope I am just as lucky someday.

It sickens me the way that so many widowers are willing to gratify their 
own desires by the most convoluted justifications, and how so many other 
people leap in to defend those justifications on the most spurious and 
self-serving grounds (often to expiate their own guilt).

There is a well-attested correlation between the 13th month after being 
widowed, and remarriage. That suggests to me that many widowers are 
deliberately delaying doing what they had intended to do (remarry) long 
before then. To me, that devalues and denigrates their late spouse, and 
indeed, love itself.

What bullshit. It takes considerably LESS strength and courage to fall into 
another relationship than it takes to go on being a widower. That anyone 
would even suggest the opposite with a straight face is ridiculous.

Certainly the Old Testament recognizes remarriage for widows and divorcees. 
It is only a Kohen (priest) who is barred from marrying a divorcee, and a 
Kohen Gadol (High Priest) who is barred from marrying both divorcees and 
widows. (Leviticus 21.)

This dream was unlike the way in which I had known my life to this point. 
The chiseled rain part was familiar, as life had earned me a Ph.D. in 
trauma and distress. But to experience peace amid it all was indeed 
foreign, yet so potent it compelled me into a deep investigation of my life.

In my mid-20s, I was advancing in the career of organizational development 
and consulting Fortune 500 companies on leadership, diversity, and the 
behavioral implications of mergers and acquisitions. I was also in a second 
graduate program to become a clinical psychologist. While my background 
brought awareness and understanding, it did not transform my relationship 
to rage or racial distress. I moved through the world like a barely 
contained volcano, well dressed in designer suits, well paid, and wrapped 
tightly in righteous indignation. Why change?

During my recovery from surgery, I had a past-life reading with a shaman. 
She shared that prior to this life, I had been in silence for 40 years, and 
that I was in such resistance coming into this noisy life that my heart 
stopped beating in the birth canal. As you can imagine, this added new 
flavor to the inherent need for heart reparation. Is it possible that I was 
carrying more than this lifetime was dishing out? Could I also be carrying 
the unresolved rage and resistance of my ancestors? And their love? Could I 
sit, big-bodied on a flower, on a still lake, in utter ease, while the 
thundering world is on fire?

My professional training gave me the skills to design training programs for 
leaders, so I designed Celebration of Rage, a nationwide retreat for women 
that I led for more than 15 years, culminating in my first book, published 
in 2007, Healing Rage: Women Making Inner Peace Possible. My second book, 
Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out, came out in 2018, 
and since then, I have been leading retreats on this body of work. Both 
publications are ways of looking at systems and navigating a reduction in 
emotional distress and an increase in social harmony.
4a15465005

-- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Geb 
User Mailing List" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email 
to [email protected].
To view this discussion on the web visit 
https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/geb-user/a916ba3f-071f-43ad-8627-46f582df3c49n%40googlegroups.com.

Reply via email to