ME AND SIX OTHER ANGRY MEN.

On page 22, the therapist, after noting that I was a "very sensitive youngster" but one prone to rage, surmises that "while the anger might be the primary affective emotion, it's a blanket for the pain". Over time, through a lot of work, I've come to know that for me anger is like slipping when you're taking the stairs two at a time and fast as hell. PATRICIO MANUEL, 34, five-time national amateur boxing champion competing as a female; won first pro fight as a male in 2018 Boxing gave me a way to move psychologically through that anger, to transform it by craft and skill, exorcise it by exercise. [Extracted from the article]