Please show where I said anger was ALWAYS cathartic?

I said it was the best side-effect of anger. Just spewing is never productive.

Way back up in the thread, I challenged those of you who keep insisting that anger can become an addiction, to come up with some other observable manifestations of anger. No one responded with any. So I put a list out there. No one responded to that either.

That tells me the "anger = addiction" folks here aren't the least bit interested in learning anything. They are looking for people to agree with their beliefs about the emotion we call anger.

That ain't a search for the truth. That's swimming upstream in that river called denial.

This isn't a discussion about what is medically and scientifically known about addiction, substance or behavioral (for all you Pavlov and Skinner fans out there).

Of course, knowing how the political discussions go around here, it isn't in the least bit surprising to see what a Skinner slant folks here have to their radical behaviourist beliefs about anger.

I'm more of a physiological and philisophical bent, myself.