eli5: Why do we destroy/feel the urge to destroy things when angry? How does that relieve anger/stress?
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I’m not a psychologist, but my amateur guess would be that it correlates to an evolutionary trauma/ stress response, your brain can’t tell that there isn’t an immediate threat to your life because your bills are due and your bank account is empty, but it still is flooding your body with stress hormones, so you lash out and break something as if the glass on the countertop is a wolf trying to kill and eat you in the woods.
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