Anger is of different types and can be classified into categories. Recognizing the classification of your anger will help you better deal with it in the long run.
1. Behavioral Anger: When a person experiences behavioral anger, they usually confront the person making them angry, which is usually someone else. Physical damage may follow verbal harshness. Such are the characteristics of behavioral anger.
2. Chronic Anger: A person who suffers from chronic anger does not always have a rational explanation for why they are angry all the time. Such people hate the world they live in, hate themselves, hate everyone else, and generally sulk at the slightest motivation.
3. Constructive Anger: A person who manages their anger by channeling it into a constructive path, such as self-improvement, is said to have constructive anger. This is often the result of self-help and anger management courses.
4. Deliberate Anger – When a person deliberately pretends to be angry, often as a ploy to control subordinates, this type is called Deliberate Anger. It is usually a false representation of anger, but occasionally it can turn into other forms of anger. Deliberate anger also goes quickly, especially when confronted.
5. Critical anger: People who suffer from this form of anger tend to belittle other people in front of meetings, to try to appear superior.
6. Overwhelming Anger: As the name suggests, this form of anger exists when the emotion has really gotten to the root of a person. People experiencing overwhelming anger simply cannot bear the situation they find themselves in and often find destructive ways to relieve themselves, hurting themselves or physically hurting others.
7. Paranoid Anger: The paranoid form of anger is totally without just cause. People often go into a frenzy imagining that someone is against them. This is called paranoid anger.
8. Passive Anger: This is a somewhat controlled form of anger in which the person experiencing it does not directly show their anger. Instead, he resorts to making fun of the person who angers him, in a sarcastic manner.
9. Retaliatory Anger: This happens as a result of someone else’s anger at you. When you retaliate in self-defense in an angry way, this is called retaliatory anger.
10. Self-Inflicted Anger: Here, a person who is angry with himself punishes himself by inflicting pain on his own body. This is a common phenomenon among drug addicts.
11. Verbal anger: Here the only damage done is verbal abuse of other people. Often this could be the start of other forms of anger.
12. Volatile Anger: It can range from mild anger to outright fury, leaving as suddenly as it comes. The intensity and time depends on how well the individual controls it.