This person is extremely sensitive to, or frightened by, any expression of disharmony or conflict and is committed to keeping everything under control. On the other hand, the early environment may have been one of frequent or periodic physical or verbal explosions which can create an individual determined never to repeat the chaotic discord of childhood, one who suppresses every dissenting impulse. However, the same environment can give rise to a frightened and powerless child who grows into an adult who feels safe only in his or her ungoverned expression of anger. Please note the word is not stress, but distress. Stress is a normal part of the human condition holding our bodies upright on the earth and responsible for the healthy kind of competitive urges that enable progress.
Distress leads to disease.
A major cause of distress is the suppression of emotion. As with any toxic build up, when emotional distress reaches a danger level, the body responds. Until an individual deals with historical anger, there is little chance that day to day situations involving anger will be handled with any degree of mastery. One's response to the warning depends upon whether he or she can address the situation openly, clearly and calmly, or whether one's history commands the response. If history is in charge, you will most likely explode inappropriately, say nothing at the moment and comply with authority, but be set off later by some unrelated annoyance, or you will comply and swallow whatever anger signals you may notice and say nothing about it, hoping to keep the peace.