How can I prevent road rage?
To prevent road rage, there are lifestyle tips you can follow to help keep you calmer when you're behind the wheel. In this video, psychologist Jennifer Hartstein, PsyD, shares these tips and explains how to properly diffuse a road rage incident.
Transcript
At its most basic core, leave enough time before you get in the car to get someplace so that you don't feel frustrated before you get to your destination.
[MUSIC PLAYING] It's really important, in order to prevent road rage,
that we do some very fundamental things about taking care of ourselves. So we know that sleep is one of the things that
makes us have the least amount of frustration tolerance. So to the best of your ability, you need to get enough sleep per night figure out how much is right for you and do your best
to get it and get restful sleep. Don't use your electronics before you go to bed. Shut the TV off.
A quiet, cool room-- all important things for good sleep. When you're in the car, have some distraction that's not texting, emailing, anything else,
maybe listening to good music or something that's relaxing that can keep you in a calmer state. Maybe eat before you get in the car.
And at its most basic core, leave enough time before you get in the car to get someplace so that you don't feel frustrated before you get to your destination.
Oftentimes, we react to other people's bad and aggressive driving in an automatic way. We don't think about it. We might use a gesture.
We might scream and yell. And they notice that. And then they turn it around on us. And now we are in a position of being the victim.
It's very important. Make a hand gesture back to signal "I'm sorry" or wave or smile.
But don't re-engage with them. And if it's really frightening and getting to a point that it's very dangerous, call the police and get some help.
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