Never thought about it like that before, anger as a grounding technique, but my grounding stuff is external focused... well, that and emotions kinda make me space out more than a lil bit anyhow so it would be totally counterproductive for me to try. Numb/nothing is my default, you know? But the ones in my system who do anger... yeah, so long as their grr levels are high, they tend to fly solo, so lil internal crowding or someone else showing up until the grr runs itself out. I always dismissed it as them doing their things and us giving them room. Could be an interesting thing to try out sometime... see if one of the angry ones can cling to it and plow through life a bit longer than usual. Huh. Now I'm wondering if Gwen is paying mind to this and would be willing to give it a go.