I want to write about aggression today. This lagos ‘stressful life’, infact Nigeria as a whole, lol, can be stressful to live in and sometimes people get unnecessarily aggressive.
According to Wiki: Aggression is overt, often harmful, social interaction with the intention of inflicting damage or other unpleasantness upon another individual. It may occur either in retaliation or without provocation. Hmmmm!!! Common causes of aggression in our society today are: stress, poverty drug abuse, , unemployment, and lack of basic amenities etc
In my daily activities I sometimes come across aggressive people and I just whisper to my self ‘what is this ones problem’. Aggression doesn’t always have to be physical, it can be verbal/non physical as well. People tend to use the non physical aggression because it is more subtle! They believe or feel that they can be aggressive without appearing to others to be aggressing. Example of this type of aggression include; Gossiping, Spreading rumors, Turning people against each other and Dismissing the opinions of others. I think the last example, ‘’Dismissing the opinions of others’’ is the most common. Some people don’t give a hoot about what you have to say, they just want to impose their own opinion on you and when it seems you are not buying into it, it becomes a problem and they just flip!
This is not a social psychology lecture, lol, but there’s a lot to talk about aggression and aggressive people. I think people should learn to take things easy, we don’t always get what we want and that’s normal, instead of taking out our frustration on others why not take a chill pill, relax and strategize on the way forward .....
If you ever come across an aggressive person, be guided and stay calm, allow him/her finish ‘ranting’ before you say a word or two. No need to get angry and exchange words, if possible take some steps back to avoid any fist blows.
Anyways, how was your day? And any thoughts or comments on Aggression?
Nice write up. My day was fine,I witnessed an encounter between an aggressive nurse and a patient today The nurse was trying to persuade the patient not to discharge himself against medical advice,when he wasn't yielding, she told him that he won't be able to come for check up since he is the one discharging himself(which is the norm). The next thing was he stood up and said e was going to beat her😲 . Id not for the intervention of security men, he would have beaten her black and blue.
ReplyDeleteSituations could make a person become aggressive"poverty,unhappiness, etc. The best way to handle agreeing people is to stay calm, although sometimes u have to act else u might get injured..
Nice to read you had a great day. Wow, what an experience! Thank God you didn’t end up becoming a ‘victim of circumstance’, lol. Some people really need to things easy, you don’t have to flare up at the slightest provocation especially when dealing with a person struggling with health issues. Thank God for the quick intervention of security, I’m sure both the nurse and patient would have learnt their lesson today.
ReplyDeleteNice write up,keep it up��
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