Anger begins in the body long before it becomes a thought. In this first part of my series on emotional biology, I explain how the nervous system creates anger, why it rises so quickly, and how understanding the physiology changes the way we respond to it.

Hypertension doesn’t roar onto the battlefield—it creeps in silently. For veterans, stress, exposures, and secondary conditions make this “silent wound” a service legacy that must be recognized and treated.