The Mystery of Anger

When you're angry, your brain is kind of like on fire and it's distracted by all the things. Your limbic system is going off your amygdala. And when that happens, that fight or flight can kind of start to take over. You actually can lose some of your cognitive abilities at that. The more you do that retroactive work, you start to catch yourself in the moment before you even go down the path of the explosive anger.

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