As Brexit debates become ever more fractious, we are trapped in a cycle of anger, disbelief and impotence.
They believe -- incorrectly -- that others feel hostile or critical toward them and tend to defend themselves, in the process actually provoking hostility and a vicious cycle of anger.
Since Korn's first album, "Korn," in 1994, he has sung about the ways victims become avengers and random victimizers, in a continuing, self-justifying cycle of anger.
But when you're suffering from a grievance, you could get trapped in a cycle of anger, self-pity, and resentment that puts you at risk for further conflict as well as emotional and physical distress.
For one thing, doing so may cost more lives: reporting, say, that bad training or poor command judgment caused soldiers to kill civilians may make people angry at American soldiers, but it might lead to changes that keep more civilians from being killed, and stave off a subsequent cycle of anger and retribution.
It's a hard-won conclusion, which suggests that finally, after years of being haunted by the horrors of his childhood, after decades of feeling trapped in a cycle of anger and hurt, Patrick — an orphan now — has, at last, found a measure of safety, freedom and liberation from the past.
Even in fundamentally sound relationships, husbands and wives find themselves caught in cycles of anger and resentment, to the point where each expects rudeness from the other and gets it.
Yet her cycle of depression, anger, guilt and shame remained crushingly intact.
A cycle of repression anger has been the story of South Africa for the last 25 years.
There are opportunities for our universities to show leadership in shaping our post-Brexit society, provided they can avoid sinking into the cycle of denial, anger and renegotiation likely to preoccupy the headlines.
Employment counselors say it is easy for the newly jobless to get sucked into a cycle of denial, anger and depression, their days consumed by television and unproductive Internet searches.
