What is the difference between explosive and implosive anger?
The difference between explosive and implosive anger is that the exploder tends to drop his 'angernades' without considering the consequences of his anger, or her anger, of course. And, unfortunately, with explosive anger people have a cathartic moment whereby they feel great after having said what they've said and the people that they've exploded onto take like a week to two weeks to recover, and they themselves cannot quite understand that. Implosive anger applies to the individual who's really afraid to express and communicate their feelings of anger, but also they're afraid of other people's anger towards them. What they tend to then do is they tend to stuff their anger, and internalizing anger can lead to depression. So we always encourage people - it's better out than in, explosive is better than implosive anger, even if it means that you have to explode. Eventually you'll find a middle ground, and once you've found a middle ground, you'll find a way of becoming assertive. But people who implode eventually explode. It's only a matter of time. So it's much healthier out than in.
