Anger is not only bad for your relationship with your spouse and other people around you but also for your health. Health experts have proved how anger can affect your health.
Here are 3 ways anger can harm your health;
1. Anger puts your heart at great risks
Anger has been proven to be dangerous to your cardiac health. Scientists have proven that being angry for upto 2 hours could double one's chance of suffering heart attack.
“In the two hours after an angry outburst, the chance of having a heart attack doubles,” says Chris Aiken, MD a psychiatrist.
To protect your heart, he advises that you speak directly to the person you are angry with and solve the matter.
2. Anger can affect your general health
Anger can as well out your general wellbeing at risk. Anger can cause you severe headache, migraines, chest pain and more. Additionally, it can worsen pre-existing conditions like hypertension and depression. Insomnia, anxiety, fatigue and mental or brain fog are all linked to anger.
3. Affects your immune system
Being too angry can reduce your immune system's ability to fend off threats exposing you to an increased risk of infection.
This is because several hours of anger cause dip in the levels of the antibody immunoglobulin A which is the cell's first line of defense. With this said, you are likely to fall sick following too much anger all the time.