“I never get angry, I just grow a tumour instead.” So says Isaac, Woody Allen’s alter ego in his movie Manhattan. It is a quote referenced in Gabor Mate’s book When The Body Says No, which explores the cost to our health of repressed stress responses such as anger.

We get angry because we are human. This may be something that we have lost sight of in the quest for universal happiness and wellbeing, which almost always links anger with things such as high blood pressure, skin disorders or digestive problems, teaching us that it should be repressed at all costs.

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