Anger is the Default Response | Guy Winch

We're hurt. That's the, you know, like, you stub your toe, everyone I know will smack the file cabinet. It's a file cabinet. Didn't do it on purpose. That was your toe. That interrupt. Whatever. But my point is, that's our default response. And so that's why when you're hurt, you're going to get angry. That's, that's, that is the default. That's, that's how, you know, we evolved. It's a protective mechanism because our brain doesn't distinguish that well, if at all, between emotional and physical pain. This is true in functional MRIs. They look incredibly, incredibly similar. Sometimes experts are like, I'm not quite sure which that is between emotional trauma and physical trauma. Pain, emotional pain and physical pain.