Feel stressed or angry every Christmas? BAAM can help you

Want to avoid doing a "Will Smith" this Christmas? There are new ways to help you manage your temper that form part of this year’s Anger Awareness Week, which runs from Thursday 1 to 7 December 2022.

In today’s stress-filled world, many people find themselves in hot-water situations when their anger becomes difficult or even impossible to control. (Which often happens at Christmastime.)

Although anger has many causes, it’s often rooted in childhood traumas. To help people work out where their anger may be coming from BAAM (the British Association of Anger Management), is asking the public to take a free ACE (Aggressive Childhood Experience), test about common traumatic experiences. The test takes a mere five minutes to complete and offers insights into the causes of people's anger, the first step to managing society's growing problem.

In addition to the free ACE test, BAAM has other free-use resources available on its website as part of this year’s Anger Awareness Week. These include an A to Z of Anger and an A to Z of Stress. Helping the UK to conquer Anger.

Mike Fisher, who is a leading Anger and Stress Management expert and the Founder of the British Association of Anger Management said: "The extremely harmful nature of Adverse Childhood Experiences are often more long-lasting than people realise, and makes it more likely people will suffer from stress and anger as adults."

He went on to add: “That’s why we want to make it simple for people to learn about Adverse Childhood Experiences which can mean people suffer from serious mental and physical issues later in their lives. These can include anger management problems, heart disease, toxic stress, depression, anxiety, risky sexual behaviour, poor academic achievement, and substance abuse, also.”

The Adverse Childhood Experiences test involves 10 simple Yes/No questions and results in a score.

If the score is high, it can mean Adverse Childhood Experiences are a cause of social and emotional difficulties, relationship issues, and anger problems.

BAAM (the British Association of Anger Management), has been helping people manage their anger issues for in excess of a quarter century. Their Adverse Childhood Experiences test has already been completed by over 2,000 people.

Many people suffer from anger problems in their personal and professional lives and this test is a great way to start managing anger. It’s another way people can start to reclaim their inner calm. That's so important at this time of year as Christmas, when people are together at home, is when anger can ruin not just the holiday but people's relationships, too.

https://www.angermanage.co.uk/adverse-childhood-experiences-ace-test.