Are you feeling pissed off a lot lately? Do you go straight from neutral to irate in an instant, snapping at loved ones or anyone who looks at you wrong? Is there a constant tightness in your chest or throat? If so, you’re not alone. According to my informal poll of pretty much everyone alive right now (and by that I mean me, my friends, family, and clients), simmering rage is the dominant emotion.
Why are we angry all of the time? In large part because so much has been taken from us over the past 20 months, and we’re feeling resentful. To gain some insight into what’s happening to us, we have to understand the relationship between resentment and anger.
The Cambridge Dictionary defines resentment as “a feeling of anger because you have been forced to accept something that you do not like.”