If your anger has caused you to harm other people, or yourself, and you think it’s having a destructive effect on your life, you should visit your GP or explore local services to help you cope. This guide can offer coping and management advice, but if your problem is more serious then it’s important to seek further help.

This guide aims to help you to:

• recognise if you have problems with anger
• understand anger and what keeps it going
• find ways to manage anger and express your emotions in a healthy way

Problems with anger can be caused by a range of different things – this guide aims to help you find where your anger is coming from and learn ways of solving the problem.

It won’t stop you getting angry, because anger is a normal emotion, but it will help you to manage anger and express your feelings in a healthy way.

How to use the problems with anger self-help guide

Working through this guide can take around an hour, but you should feel free to work at your own pace.