April 5th, 2018
Angry vs Mad vs Crazy
When I first moved to the United States, I thought that it was odd to hear people say that they felt "mad" when what they were trying to express was feeling angry.
With time, however, I have come to realize that "mad" is often just the right term to use.
While anger is certainly a healthy and normal emotion, it can quite literally change chemicals in our brain and produce physiological responses that can cause us to think - and subsequently react - in ways that are, quite frankly, crazy.
I do not use the word crazy not as derogatory, but simply to indicate ways of thinking and acting that are not reflective of our 'normal' states when we are not activated. In other words, how we would think and act if we were not caught up in the "heat of the moment"?
The next time you react in a way that is "mad," rather than criticizing and judging yourself, get curious and try to figure out what happened between stimulus and your "mad" thoughts, feelings, and actions.
By slowing down, we can allows our bodies' heightened responses to diminish to that we are able to respond and express our anger in healthier ways.
Angry vs Mad vs Crazy
When I first moved to the United States, I thought that it was odd to hear people say that they felt "mad" when what they were trying to express was feeling angry.
With time, however, I have come to realize that "mad" is often just the right term to use.
While anger is certainly a healthy and normal emotion, it can quite literally change chemicals in our brain and produce physiological responses that can cause us to think - and subsequently react - in ways that are, quite frankly, crazy.
I do not use the word crazy not as derogatory, but simply to indicate ways of thinking and acting that are not reflective of our 'normal' states when we are not activated. In other words, how we would think and act if we were not caught up in the "heat of the moment"?
The next time you react in a way that is "mad," rather than criticizing and judging yourself, get curious and try to figure out what happened between stimulus and your "mad" thoughts, feelings, and actions.
By slowing down, we can allows our bodies' heightened responses to diminish to that we are able to respond and express our anger in healthier ways.
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