Is Smashing Things a Good Way To Relieve Stress? (Clients of the Anger Room Sure Think So)
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2012/05/13 00:28:56
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Have you ever had such a bad day that you just wanted to break something? Or maybe throw a piece of furniture across the room? Well, now a Texas entrepreneur has devised a socially acceptable way for you to spew your rage.
The Anger Room is the brainchild of Donna Alexander, who first launched the business out of her garage. Friends seeking to relieve stress would come over and take baseball bats to old junk in the room. When word got out about what they were doing, strangers began to show up and demand became too much to handle. That’s when Alexander decided to turn the Anger Room into a legitimate business.
The Anger Room is the brainchild of Donna Alexander, who first launched the business out of her garage. Friends seeking to relieve stress would come over and take baseball bats to old junk in the room. When word got out about what they were doing, strangers began to show up and demand became too much to handle. That’s when Alexander decided to turn the Anger Room into a legitimate business.
Now when clients come to the Anger Room’s new location in a Dallas strip mall, they are decked out in safety goggles and helmets to protect themselves. They then enter a room filled with old furniture and electronics, arranged to look like an office, bedroom, or kitchen. Once inside, anything is fair game. You can smash, break, throw, and destroy to your heart’s content.
If you want, you can also take out relationship stress on mannequins. Alexander told a Dallas TV station that some customers “put pictures on them, write on them, and then they try to beat the crap out of them.”
Anger Room sessions are available in three time options: “I need a Break!”—$25 for 5 minutes; “Lash Out”—$45 for 15 minutes; and “Total Demolition”—$75 for 25 minutes. The rates are pretty affordable considering you don’t have to collect the items or do any of the setup and cleanup.
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Top Opinion
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chamchamgal 2012/05/13 02:13:53
Humans before today were very very active ... hunter gatherers.. farmers... mightily busy .. physically busy busy active...
Using physical strength to relieve duress/stress is natural and is how we are "hardwired" internally to survive.
Source: Human History over aeons
Proofs i have witnessed? One of my neighbors husband died and she had young children .... huge responsibilites for their very lives , and her love for them is greater than her sorrow, greater than anything...
she , as so many people do.. could have chosen to not look indepth at her life , she could have chosen to take out her anger on her babies ... but she chose instead to find logical ways around the anger.. the sorrow ... the stress.. at night she would go outside into her backyard and chop wood for the fireplace, and then she would throw the pieces of wood as far as she was able until she became exhausted.
my mother used to go out and watch her and bring her some tea when she was finis.
Her innocent babies never knew a moment of anger from her related to the death of their beloved father, her most beloved half of herself.
i admire her so much. Just thinking about it makes my eyes fill with tears.
http://www.pictogame.com/en/p...
Actually, I haven't smashed something for a while
I'm gonna have to go do that.
I prefer to finely focus my efforts into a far more .. interesting way to release pent up anger ..
and that focus .. is NOT 'destructive' .. as much as it is distancing the cause of consternation in my life ..
(although in my younger years .. I did have a go at the destructive phase when a particular appliance wouldn't stay repaired and kept breaking down!)
Some yoga, by the way, is pretty intense.
Or Tai Chi...
I have tried meditating and whatnot. Problem is that I think too much, esp. when I'm angry, so sitting still isn't good for me, I gotta vent. I've tried creating too, like drawing, but really that just makes me far more frustrated because everything has to be just right and if it's not, well, I get even more angry.
But, smashing things tires me out to the point where I don't feel that rage anymore. I don't really feel happy afterward, but at least I don't feel angry anymore.
Point is, what works for you may not really work for other people. Some people vent by smashing things. If you still retain anger after that then smashing things should not be your outlet. But if it makes you feel better, then there's no reason it shouldn't be your outlet. So long as you don't hurt anyone or damage anything you own or someone else owns. But useless junk would be acceptable.
I've tried a bunch of things to release negative energy... so far the only thing that works is smashing things. Can't help it, that's just how I am.
That said, I really considered what you said and I accept, now, the possibility that it 'could' help some people.
Yes it could help some people. People manage, vent, whatever their anger in different ways. It makes sense that it would help some people, I'm one of them I would know. And I can't be the only one due to the sheer statistical improbability of that.
I must admit, there are exceptions to all studies.
I took a hammer to it for a good 10 minutes