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Look at it for a second from the other way around. Anxiety leads up to anger.

Anger is often called a secondary emotion. It gets built up like a reservoir of gasoline by anxiety, frustration and fear about your situation. And when the appropriate trigger comes up the anger blows up like a match to a can of fuel that was already sitting there.

> "the desire to punish" and "rage"

These are efforts to restore control over what is happening in your life. These feelings can be managed by improving communication and using positive assertiveness. If you're having difficulty at work check out Difficult Conversations.

Something you can do now is try this free Anger Management Workbook. Don't even need to print it out. Just grab a pen and paper and get to work. It is very concise and quick to work through and find helpful techniques. You can take the notes with you the next time you see your therapist to help stay on topic for what's really problematic right now.

Generally speaking it's a good idea to keep a journal of your therapy visits. You can write down things that come up that you want to remember to talk about and work through. You can do it on your phone's notebook app or use Google Docs app. Field Notes are nice and small if you want a hard copy to carry around.

Also check out books like [Anger Management for Dummies](https://hmt.es/Anger Management For Dummies.pdf), When Anger Hurts or other books at your local library. Totally free to get a library card.

Good for you for getting help! Sometimes we just need to learn a few better techniques for dealing with our family and life's challenges. Good luck!