Anger has been a severe problem for me, but not in the way most people would think of it. Have had a long history of very severe asthma, since six months old, and while the medications today are quite marvelous, it is still only contained, not cured.

One of the side effects of my asthma was/is that getting angry was a dangerous mood swing, especially for my first twenty years. Anger begins my constricting the neck and the carotid arteries that bring blood to the brain. Neither is a positive if one has trouble breathing.

It forced me to look at my anger and figure out a way to deal with it, for the way it dealt with me, often meant a severe asthma attack, requiring a shot of adrenaline to end it, no other drugs were available in my childhood as a substitute.

So while there are strong disagreements from time to time, anger is not allowed to raise its head, the effects hurt me much more than anything I might say.