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Mort Orman

Mort Orman

Dr. Mort Orman, M.D. is an internal medicine physician and 40-year anger-elimination expert, author of "Dr. Orman's Life-Changing Anger Cure" and founder of Stress Mastery Academy (docorman.com).

Sep 7, 2026

8:09
So what do you think are the internal causes of anger that most people don't realize?
8:15
We have a couple problems today in society regarding emotions in general and anger in particular.
8:21
So we're not really educated properly to understand how human emotions work, which is a shame because there's so many people running around with all kinds of emotional difficulties today.
8:34
But one of the things we're taught that's incorrect is you know, that somebody else made us angry or something outside of us, the government, the economy, COVID, my boss, my coworkers, stuff that goes on outside of us, it seems like that that's what makes us angry.
8:59
But that's not really the true story.
9:01
Those are just the triggers of our anger.
9:03
So there are lots of things that can trigger us outside of us to get angry.
11:20
So, you know, for someone listening right now who probably struggles with anger or stress, what is, you know, the one practical steps they can start to take immediately in order to permanently eliminate anger?
3:17
You've been doing this for a long time, right? Is there a reason? Is this a personal thing that you kind of grew into or did you start out thinking I'm going to be an anger
3:28
expert? Oh, I didn't.
3:30
I was more an angry victim, to tell you the truth.
3:32
I didn't grow up in an angry family.
3:34
My parents weren't angry.
3:35
But when I started to be a teenager and later on in college, medical school, medical training, I started getting angry at myself a lot.
3:43
I started having very high expectations of myself and I would get angry and frustrated if I didn't meet up to them.

7 MINS LATER

10:27
But are you saying you can eliminate it from actually starting? Or are you saying that you can eliminate it very quickly after it starts?

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