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...follow-up than those who spoke up when they experienced anger, anxiety or depression. The study comes on the heels of other studies linking suppressed anger to cardiac problems, high blood pressure and headaches. Columbia University did emotional screenings on more than 300 middle-aged women with coronary heart disease and found 50 percent of the women were angry and did not express that emotion to their spouse. Most women have been taught to suppress their anger because it is not lady like and in the older generation women did not express their anger to their spouses because they are the one who worked and supported the family. There are four types of anger suppressors, Container: knowing you are angry, but holding it in, hoping it will blow over. Internalizer: blames self for whatever happens. Segmenter: denies anger because it is an ugly trait, tends to be passive-aggressive. Externalizer: co...