Managing The “Fight” Response: Anger, Repression, and Self-Regulation

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Being Well

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.8 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Dr. Rick and Forrest continue their series on the stress responses with the “fight” response to stress. They explore anger, repression, and the balance of self-expression and self-regulation before talking about how we can claim the adaptive aspects of the fight response without falling prey to its more problematic aspects. A major focus of the episode is resentment and repression, alongside related topics like empowering yourself, managing expectations, and “experiencing out.” You can watch this episode on YouTube. Key Topics: 0:00: Introduction 1:15: The useful aspects of anger 5:40: Specific behaviors associated with the fight response 8:35: Giving yourself permission to express anger 13:40: Navigating resentment 21:40: Thwarted expectations as a source of unhealthy anger 32:05: Claiming your anger, and being wary of its seductive nature 35:45: Developing an authentic sense of empowerment 39:45: Going from complaint to request 43:30: Antidotes to unhealthy anger 52:40: Challenging authority without feeling intimidated or shamed 54:20: When we’re angry at ourselves 59:00: Recap I am now writing on Substack, check out my work there. Support the Podcast: We're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link. Sponsors Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world’s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month! If you’re navigating something messy, call The Dr. John Delony Show. Dr. John shares practical advice on how to connect with people, face depression, overcome anxiety, and learn what it means to be well. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. Transform your health with the ZOE Science & Nutrition podcast. Find it wherever you listen to podcasts. OneSkin focuses on delivering more than superficial results for your skin. Get started today with 15% off using code BEINGWELL at oneskin.co. Connect with the show: Subscribe on iTunes Follow Forrest on YouTube Follow us on Instagram Follow Forrest on Instagram Follow Rick on Facebook Follow Forrest on Facebook Visit Forrest's website

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello and
0:05.0	welcome to being well, I'm Forrest Handsome.
0:10.0	If you're new to the show, thanks for joining us today.
0:12.0	And if you've listened before, welcome back.
0:15.0	Recently we did an episode on the freeze response distress that focused on dissociation and emotional shutdown.
0:22.0	And before that, we had an episode on self-abandiment,
0:24.6	which is closely associated with the Fawn response distress.
0:28.4	So we've kind of found our way into a little mini-series here
0:32.1	of episodes dedicated to the different stress responses.
0:35.2	And today we're going to be continuing that series by exploring the fight response.
0:39.2	So to help us do that I'm joined as usual by I could think I can fairly say my favorite guest
0:44.9	clinical psychologist Dr Rick Hansen he's also my dad so that might have something to do with
0:49.6	it so dad how are you doing today? Well, I'm just really touched, so thank you.
0:55.8	Number one guest in my heart, right?
0:57.2	Well, you know, Elizabeth has been on the podcast several times,
1:00.8	so I'm not gonna play favorites here. You're both tied for first place.
1:04.4	Okay, I'll take it. That's great. That's about as you know as good as you can hope right?
1:09.2	I'm the parental figure here and I'd say that's I'm up there in the hall of fame with Elizabeth I'm very honored to be in good company there
1:17.0	So as with all of these episodes I would like to start by just exploring what's in the fight response like what do we actually mean when we say that practically in the context
1:26.7	where we are humans rather than zebras like we can often really recognize
1:31.7	these stress responses and animals but sometimes it gets a little bit harder to do that in people actually.
1:37.0	But with people, when we talk about the fight response, emotionally, we're mostly talking about anger, anger, rage, resentment, feelings like that.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Being Well, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Being Well and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.