Do You Know What Chronic Anger Does to Your Brain?

Many Die Without Knowing

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Someone cuts you off in traffic.

Your heart races. Your chest tightens.

Your hands grip the steering wheel hard. And for the next two hours, you keep reliving the moment.

Imagining what you should have said.

Feeling the injustice.

Two hours later, you’re still pissed. At dinner, you snap at your partner. In bed, you can’t sleep because your mind won’t stop.

All because of 3 seconds in traffic.

Now multiply this by every day. Small irritations that pile up. The coworker who talks loud. The neighbor who plays music. The boss who doesn’t appreciate you. The line at the grocery store. The politician on TV. The unanswered text.

You’re constantly irritated. And you think it’s normal. That the problem is the world. That you’re right to be furious.

Meanwhile, your brain is slowly dying.

It’s not a metaphor. It’s literal. Chronic anger destroys brain structures. And most people live like this for years — decades even — without realizing they’re causing permanent damage.

I knew a man who was 52.