# If anger or harm at home frightens you

Difficult experience can deserve understanding while actual harm requires protection. Neither cancels the other. This article distinguishes anger, threats, coercion, and violent actions without labeling everyone who survived war dangerous.

You do not first have to make a diagnosis, decide the relationship's future, or find perfect words to change someone. Separate attention is given to a person harmed, a child, someone causing harm, and a relative wanting to help. Children should not calm adults or take responsibility for their behavior. Beginning treatment does not establish safety at home.

Immediate danger calls for available emergency protection or assistance where you are located; reading should not delay it. Personal steps need consideration of actual conditions.