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Are emotions like anger, happiness and sadness a choice? One often hear about 
controlling anger as though it was a choice. Are all emotions a choice? Can one 
choose to be happy instead of sad? 
 
ANSWERS 
 
I used to strictly believe that happiness, anger or sadness are choices. Now I do not. I'm rethinking over that concept 
because if emotions are created by the release of hormones, they cannot be controlled by us consciously (at least true in 
my case) 
For example, 
 Consider a person A who loves to be happy and really, really wants to be happy. A got some issues currently and 
things are not going as expected, the person is fighting hard to get things sorted but its just not the lucky time. If 
the person is being let down by nature, he will not be able to make a choice to change his emotion to being happy. 
Try being happy when your stomach is crying in pain out of hunger and you don't have anything to eat. There can 
be a lot of motivation and the trust to succeed but that doesn't mean he can choose to be happy always. People are 
victims to emotions and we have to accept the emotion and accept that it will pass in time. 
 Anger is not a choice, people get angry and trust me, most of the people who are angry didn't actually decide and 
choose to be angry. If they are angry because they cannot take it anymore and reached their respective limits, they 
know they will regret anything said or done during that time but without proper strategy and training for mind 
they cannot stop themselves. 
 
What can be done: 
Accept the emotions. Tune your mind on how to act when emotions are gushing through your body. 
Activities like meditation, yoga, running, dancing(if that's your thing), outdoor games etc.. are proven to tune the mind 
to make a best person out of ourselves. 
Happiness is no problem because it is healthy to the host and the others, on the other hand anger, depression can be 
very harmful both to the person angry and people around. The later can create real damage. If we feel that things are 
not under control, we must see a therapist, get guidance, support and pick ourselves up. Psychology is real science. 
We can tame our mind on how we act upon the emotions but we cannot control emotions completely. If we could do 
that, then, we would probably call ourselves robots and saints. 
P.S: Never tell a person who is in depression or is angry that happiness is a choice and they can shift their mood to 
being happy. It’s as lame as it sounds. I mean: if it is that easy wouldn't they do it? 
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