Editors Note: This article is written by BCC Counselor Jerrod Tillotson as part of our series on “Helping Teens.” In this series, our counselors are unpacking how we can all care for teens who are facing different types of trouble.
It can be difficult to know how to express strong emotions appropriately, especially when the strong emotion happens to be anger. In many instances, it seems that it can be more acceptable to be depressed than angry.
But this is something we all experience. Anger is difficult to define, as it can vary in severity from mild irritability to a violent fury.
If you’re a teen in conflict, how do you deal with anger and conflict? Do you tend to explode on others or do you implode, quietly seething, ruminating, eventually burying it away?
Neither are helpful. In Ephesians 4:26a (NIV) Paul says “In your anger do not sin.” Anger is not prohibited, but it is to be restrained from getting out of control and lashing out against another.
One of the first things you can do when you’re angry is obvious – admit that you are angry! So what now?
Christian counselor and author
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