Rage can be silent, simmering, or explosive behavior.  If you have witnessed or been the target of another person’s rage it is an awful experience beyond words. The same can be true when we feel rage, in that it can consume our ability to think clearly – which is also very unpleasant and thus leaves us regretting actions that we took while in a state of rage.

In this episode, I discuss a key communication response that we can do when speaking to a person exhibiting rage as I read from my book Leading Chaos; An Essential Guide to Conflict Management. In this episode I am on the third chapter which is titled Am I safe? Please do read along with me via the eBook version or the hard copy.

I teach the concept of being “Drunk on Rage” in the Response Crisis Intervention Curriculum. Rage is so very common and because it is so common we do have lots of experience and insight into rage.

Consider a person enraged to be intoxicated as if they have drunk too much alcohol.  Like an intoxicated person their ability to think clearly and hear what you are saying is greatly compromised by a very high blood/alcohol level.

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They can and do not hear more than 1 or 2 words.

Listen along as I detail what to consider when speaking to a person who is Drunk on their own Rage.

In the next episode we will continue to build upon the Response Protocol for keeping ourselves safe when others are enraged.