“When anger is not trampling roughshod through our nervous system, it is sitting sullenly in some unspecified internal organ. "She's got a lot of anger in her," people will say (it nestles, presumably, somewhere in the gut), or, "He's a deeply angry man" (as opposed, presumably, to a superficially angry one). If anger isn't released, it "turns inward" and metamorphoses into another creature altogether.” PeopleIfsMenTurnsCreaturesSittingAngerAngryNervousGutsInternalsOrgansInwardNervous SystemMetamorphosisAngry Man Book:Anger, the misunderstood emotion Source: Anger, the misunderstood emotion
“I have sometimes wondered also whether in people like me who come to the boil fast (soupe au lait, the French call this trait, like a milk soup that boils over) the tantrum is not a built-in safety valve against madness or illness. ... The fierce tension in me, when it is properly channeled, creates the good tension for work. But when it becomes unbalanced I am destructive. How to isolate that good tension is my problem these days. Or, put in another way, how to turn the heat down fast enough so the soup won't boil over!” PeopleWaySometimesEnoughProblemTurnsBuiltMadnessAngerSafetyIllnessLike MeThese DaysHeatTensionDestructiveMilkTraitsFierceSoupAnother WayTantrumsUnbalancedValve Author:May Sarton