Are you in recovery and wondering why you are so angry? You may not be alone. A 2010 study of over 1.5k individuals found that the average alcoholic in recovery is angry. How angry?

Alcoholics were angrier than 98 percent of the general population.

And this was not a temporary problem, either. 15 months later alcoholics in recovery were still angrier than 89 percent of the general population.

But why would alcoholics in recovery be so angry? Is this the infamous dry-drunk phenomenon? That’s a question worth answering because unchecked anger might lead to relapse.