Addiction is a psychological condition in which someone gets so obsessed to an activity or a behavior that he does it frequently and more often than normal. Addiction has caused a lot of harm to people’s lives and relationships.
People get addicted to different things and it takes a lot of time before a person can be an addict. Examples of what people get addicted to are: pornography, smoking, drinking, masturbation, games, stealing, lying, anger, just to mention but a few.
At first, he may consider it as a normal behavior but as he continues to engage himself in it, he gets used to it and the behavior becomes an integral part of him. If it is not corrected at the right time, it may cost even the addict his life.
Anger as an addiction occurs when someone gets easily annoyed when something happens to him even if it’s not necessary for him to be vexed but because he has become used to being hot tempered he becomes angry immediately.
Being addicted to anger is a behavior that if it’s not controlled at an early time, it may lead to a lot damages to the person and the people around him as at the time he gets angry. How can a person deal with anger as an addiction?
Firstly, he should realize and admit that he is an addict.
A person may not know if it is an addiction or not, it’s the people around him that’ll notice it as a bad behavior and if he’s corrected, he should admit his faults.
If a person is doing something unacceptable and doesn’t know it as a bad behavior, it will be very hard for him to be corrected because for his mind, he has the best of behaviors.
But if a person knows that he has a behavior that is not accepted in the society, it’ll be very easy for people to correct him in his wrongs.
Secondly, after knowing that as a problem, an anger-addicted person should be ready for corrections anytime he is corrected.
Moreover, a person that will be correcting an addict should be far from getting angry easily as well. He should not be a hot tempered person; he should be calm as well as being a tolerant. He should be ready to accept anything that is said to him by the person he’s correcting. Sometimes, he may be insulted and maybe embarrassed but if he truly wants to stop the addict from getting addicted, he should be ready to take in anything that is said to him.
Also, an addicted person should learn how to understand people’s opinions before he reacts, he should take his time before he reacts to anything that comes his way. He shouldn’t rush in to giving reply to people’s comment.
When he’s spoken ill to, he shouldn’t react immediately, he should learn how to exercise a little patience before replying. This is a story of a man that gets angry easily and he later became an anger-addicted person.
No matter how un-significant the issue was, he always thought he was right, he didn’t take corrections and he didn’t look for the root cause of a situation before he took steps.
He is a business man that had some workers that were working for him but due to his hot-tempered behavior, majority of his workers did not like him.
More often, people around him; like his friends, relatives and people that were closer to him tried to correct him but he didn’t take corrections because he considered himself as a perfect person.
One day, he travelled out of the country on a business trip and he was involved in a multi-billionaire contract, if he had won the contract; he would have gotten 75% of the total amount; he would be able pay a loan he had collected from a bank; he would be able to expand his business and which in return will increase his income.
But unfortunately, on the day of the meeting, an issue raised by one of the participants led to a serious argument in the meeting among the participants. One part supported and the other group opposed the motion. But this impatient man got angry by what someone said and he angrily threw an empty bottle of drink in front him at one of his opponents which seriously injured the other man.
