Fear and Anger Can Be Good | @caroline-cavanagh | The Anxiety Alchemist

19 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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Caroline Cavanagh argues that Inside Out 2 gets fear and anger wrong by showing them as purely destructive. Fear and anger are survival tools: anger fuels the fight response, fear keeps you safe. She wants creators to show these emotions as useful and teach people how to control them.

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Inside Out, fantastic, fantastic, fantastic film. Love Disney films. Inside Out 2, I have a little bit of an issue with because we have the character of Fear and we have the character of Anger, and they're both portrayed in negative connotations, often causing friction with others, being a little bit out of control. But the reality is they're very closely related. For firstly, Anger is the fight element of the fight-or-flight response, our most primitive survival instinct. And without fear, we would not survive. So if I was able to talk to one of the producers of Inside Out, Disney— I'm here, by the way— I would love you to say, let's make fear and anger good emotions, because we need them. And when you can control them, amazing things can happen.