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Monday, January 18, 2010
The Real Cost of Anger Management
My last post was about how football is a breeding ground for anger management. This is actually true for sports and, more importantly, life in general. Jose Offereman, the manager of the Licey Tigers in the Dominica Republic Baseball League was suspended for life today after punching an umpire out. This is the second anger management incident involving Offerman in recent years. While still a player in August 2007 he struck tow other players with a baseball bat, effectively ending the career of one of them. A law suit is pending because of that anger management episode.
I talk about sports a lot in this anger management classes blog because, frankly, its an easy topic to cover. Almost every day its seems a quick search of the news reveals a new story. But these are the stories that are in the public eye. What doesn't show up everyday are the thousands of angry and violent outbursts that happen everyday in homes and offices across America. Some 1,000,000 people are estimated to be injured and 1,000 murdered each year at work, but how often do we hear about it unless someone goes postal and it makes for a nice juicy story? Then there are the countless incidents of domestic abuse towards wives, husbands, children, parents and domestic partners that occur.
The fact is that we live in a high pressured world and anger is a byproduct of not knowing how to deal with that pressure. Anger management is really not that hard to learn, yet how many businesses or people actually offer or take an anger management class? Small investments by sport teams, businesses and most importantly schools (the younger you are when you learn a skill the more natural it is as an adult)in anger management classes would go a long way to savings many times over in terms of lost lives,injuries, shattered families and the hopeless feeling that having an anger management problem can give you.
I talk about sports a lot in this anger management classes blog because, frankly, its an easy topic to cover. Almost every day its seems a quick search of the news reveals a new story. But these are the stories that are in the public eye. What doesn't show up everyday are the thousands of angry and violent outbursts that happen everyday in homes and offices across America. Some 1,000,000 people are estimated to be injured and 1,000 murdered each year at work, but how often do we hear about it unless someone goes postal and it makes for a nice juicy story? Then there are the countless incidents of domestic abuse towards wives, husbands, children, parents and domestic partners that occur.
The fact is that we live in a high pressured world and anger is a byproduct of not knowing how to deal with that pressure. Anger management is really not that hard to learn, yet how many businesses or people actually offer or take an anger management class? Small investments by sport teams, businesses and most importantly schools (the younger you are when you learn a skill the more natural it is as an adult)in anger management classes would go a long way to savings many times over in terms of lost lives,injuries, shattered families and the hopeless feeling that having an anger management problem can give you.
Anger management advice by Dr. Joe James at 12:54 PM
