Article: All the rage: why anger happens--and what to do with it.(YOUR MIND)

Even after two years, 17-year-old Rafe * has difficulty recounting one bout of anger. "I was mad at my parents," the San Antonio teen says. "I was feeling like they were messing into my life." So after an argument--his mom had found a cigarette lighter in his jeans pocket while doing laundry--Rafe took a baseball bat and smashed his desk chair, framed pictures, and computer monitor.

Marissa's * anger is different. The high school sophomore from a New Haven, Conn., suburb compares herself to a "pot of soup." She says, "It's like I feel this flame under me [so that] I'm going to boil over, [but] I don't." Marissa feels so angry at "everything--my little sister taking my ...

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