Overcoming Passive-Aggression, Revised Edition: How to Stop Hidden Anger from Spoiling Your Relationships, Career, and Happiness

Overcoming Passive-Aggression, Revised Edition: How to Stop Hidden Anger from Spoiling Your Relationships, Career, and Happiness

Language: English

Pages: 336

ISBN: 0738219185

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


Hidden anger that comes out indirectly can undermine relationships between friends, family, and colleagues. When people feel compelled to conceal their true beliefs and emotions, there can be serious physical and psychological results for everyone involved. Dr. Tim Murphy and Loriann Oberlin offer a clear definition of passive–aggression and show readers not only how to end the behavior but also how to avoid falling victim to other people’s hidden anger. This revised and updated edition offers essential guidance for dealing with problems in the workplace and at school; avoiding the pitfalls of social media, texting, and online communication; and when to seek professional help. Whether you need ways to manage your own passive–aggressiveness or ways to cope with the hidden anger of others, Overcoming Passive Aggression shares sage advice, practical exercises, and opportunities for personal growth.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

anger and its expression through passive aggression are destructive influences in our society. The authors made a significant contribution in exposing these threats and providing constructive ways of dealing with them.” —MEL LEVINE, MD, director of the Clinical Center for the Study of Development and Learning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill “Congressman Murphy and Loriann Hoff Oberlin call much-needed attention to the confusing, frustrating, and crazy-making problem of

attacks, there are millions of hidden-anger acts each day, which destroy health and relationships, reduce worker productivity, and likely cost us billions in the workplace, courtrooms, and medical facilities. THE TIME BOMB PROBLEM CONTINUALLY BURIED, EMOTIONS are like time bombs, ticking louder with each day, month, and year they accumulate. Very few people can keep up the façade of normalcy when they seethe inside. When the authorities have thwarted a planned attack, it was because

appropriate Rest assured, if hidden anger is unleashed upon you, you will likely end up feeling like the bad character. You know there is a problem. You can sense it. Only, it nags at you because you’re not sure who is responsible, why it’s happening, and what to do about it. Often, it’s socially acceptable and excused for many reasons. Passive-aggressive people possess some keen skills, with manipulation at the top of the list. They have handy alibis and display a cunning charm at times.

You’re Not a Kid Anymore.1 “They often wrongly assume it means the friend is angry at them or doesn’t care. It can lead to their pulling away from the friend.” Also, because most women aren’t comfortable with having angry or jealous feelings toward their friends, they shove those emotions aside, but they don’t disappear, Paul says. “They erupt in sarcastic remarks or this pulling away from the friend that is much more hurtful than if they had had the courage to air their darker feelings.” Isn’t

conflict, live stressful and negative lives that are out of control. Harming themselves this way restores their self-control, at least in their minds. Beyond obvious medical intervention, those suffering from eating disorders need to acknowledge the passive-aggressive role they play in refusing assistance from authority figures. Like many who conceal their anger, they desperately seek acceptance and approval yet they lack the skills of problem solving, assertive and expressive openness, and

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