You get left out of the loop on an important decision. . . . . Anger and all its cousins are permanent occupants of your emotional menage. Most people don't enjoy feeling angry. Anger can have unpleasant repercussions and destructive consequences for everyone concerned. Type-A personalities has been associated with coronary heart disease and sudden death.
Anger can lead to full-blown conflict, damaged relationships, even aggressive or violent acts.
Emotionally-driven automatic responses are usually learned in childhood, so by adulthood reacting angrily can be a habit. Clench your fists, tighten your muscles, turn red in the face, and yell. First, hormones called catecholamines are released, generating a rush of energy that lasts for minutes. Second, an adrenocortical arousal is created that can put you on edge and keep you there for hours, sometimes days. This explains why you are more likely to erupt in anger over something relatively innocuous if the incident is preceded by an earlier upsetting experience.