All right. Hi, everyone. It's Dr. Niagara. We've got our next episode, Psychology Unplugged. Thanks, as always, to all of our new and long-time listeners. I appreciate your feedback, and I will give you contact information and get hold of me at the end of the episode, as I always do. So today, very fortunate to have a guest on, clinical psychologist, Dr.

Mitch Abrams, correct?

Correct. Who's written a book that I think is incredibly relevant and a topic that, you know,

we've talked about and alluded to in the past, but this is his area of expertise. So I wanted to have him on the podcast and talk about real world stuff that all of us deal with.

So welcome, Dr. Abrams.

Thank you, Dr. and I would appreciate having up to chat.

Excellent.

The title of, what is the exact title of the book?

Because I know it's kind of blanked out.

Well, we could bleep over. The title of the book is I'm not fucking angry.

All right.

With an exclamation point. But the subtitle is as important as the title, which is adjust the flame to get what you want and need.

What do you see is the biggest problem with how society views anger?

Usually with a negative, the bad thing.

Absolutely.

Anger is normal and healthy, and very often people will try to discuss anger as a secondary

emotion which is just another way to avoid being honest it is a primary emotion it can be a

secondary emotion certainly there are times that people externalize their sadness or anxiety

and it becomes anger.

But the truth is that this is hardwired into us into our sympathetic nervous system the same way as fear it.

And I think that the biggest problem is somewhere along the line, and I have an idea of when that line was, anger turned into a bad emotion.

And what that does is it creates shame for anybody who's honest and dealing with it.

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