Embodied expression of anger and PTSD, what is the difference?
The first feels like me expressing myself when I am pissed at someone. This is authentic expression of anger from the present moment. Telling my cousin to never body shame me. Telling an ex or a friend to go to hell. These are harmless and natural expressions that are to be expected and the other person feels intrinsically the target being right (when anger is not a dysregulated discharge, projection or false interpretation due to gaps in understanding (worldview, life experience, bias, judgements etc). The recipient understands why and where the anger is coming from and does not feel offended enough to avoid, block, disconnect, file a claim or seek legal procedures. The anger lands. There is no need/motivation to fight back. (Only available in a nervous system state that can hold complexity, connection and nuance, if not there will the reactionary response of dysregulation felt as resistance)
The second one is the trapped physiological anger impulses. Like wanting to grab, punch, scream, break, burn, smash something or someone. These are all unexpressed stored life force in fight that need to be expressed kinetically to move out of the body for trauma resolution and reduction of PTSD symptoms. Some vanishing completely and some reducing in intensity. Acting on these impulses can warrant legal action if acted upon any unsuspecting by stander.