Table of Contents

Written By Amanda Barusch

Aging Angry

Preface: Who’s Angry Now?

Chapter 1 Aging While Angry

  • What’s Anger?

  • Simple Truths vs. Scientific Proofs

  • Death by a Thousand Cuts

  • They’re Just Going to Die Anyway

  • Ageism at Work

  • Family Matters

  • Mad as Hell

  • Don’t Put a Lid on It

  • Anger Unbound

Chapter 2 Speaking of Anger

  • Telling It Slant

  • I Just Exploded

  • Disgusting Idioms

  • Metaphors from Other Lands

  • Hold Your Tongue

  • Cantankerous, Crotchety, and Grumpy

Chapter 3 Anger through the Ages

  • Contemplating Aristotle

  • If a Thing Is Bad

  • Vengeance Is Mine

  • Was Jesus Angry?

  • Is Anger a Sin?

  • My Nightmare

Chapter 4 Angry Bodies

  • Inside the Lizard Brain

  • The Survival Circuit

  • Late Life Variability

  • Bad for Us or Just Plain Bad?

  • Context Matters

Chapter 5 Women Cry / Men Rage

  • Anger Makes You Ugly

  • Real Men Don’t

  • I Need Another Happy Pill

  • A Lot to Be Angry About

  • Are Men Really More Angry?

  • A Gender Paradox

Chapter 6 Race & Anger in Later Life

  • Angry Times in American Streets

  • Of Life and Time

  • The Tiresomeness of It All

  • A Legacy for the Grandchildren

  • Anger Builds Character

Chapter 7 Elders on Social Media

  • The Rage Contagion

  • Cyber Space for Rants

  • A Duty to Die?

  • Seniors Trapped in YouTube

  • Meanwhile, Back in the U.S.A.

  • The Anger Project Online

Chapter 8 Lessons on Anger & Love

  • Homes Full of Anger

  • A Panoply of Family Anger

  • The Lover’s Quarrel

  • The Sulk

  • Serpents’ Teeth

  • Kick the Dog Syndrome

Chapter 9 Aging, Angry, and Armed to the Teeth

  • A Very Big Year

  • Yeah, It Fits

  • What Was Wrong with This Man?

  • That Nagging Sense of Unfairness

  • Rageonomics

  • Not Again

  • Beyond Disgruntled

Chapter 10 Taming the Rage

  • Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED)

  • Helping People Manage Anger

  • Stop Dictating to Us

  • Destroy That Monster

  • Sometimes Therapy Works

  • Time’s Passage

Chapter 11 Embracing the Anger

  • Chemical Restraint

  • A Dose of Hope

  • American Cool

  • A Word from the Wise

  • Turning towards Anger

Chapter 12 Changing the World

  • Anger Constrained?

  • Great Old Broads and Raging Grannies

  • Choosing Anger

  • Striking a Light

  • Conclusion: The Eye of the Heart

Bibliography

Appendices

  • Appendix 1 The Anger Project

  • Appendix 2 The Interview Protocol

  • Appendix 3 The Internet Survey

Amanda Barusch

Amanda Barusch has worked as a janitor, exotic dancer, editor, and college professor. She lives in the American West, where she spends as much time as possible on dirt paths. She has an abiding disdain for boundaries and adores ambiguity. Amanda has published eight books of non-fiction, a few poems, and a growing number of short stories. Aging Angry is her first work of creative non-fiction. She uses magical realism to explore deep truths of the human experience in this rapidly changing world.

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