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Rage rooms are all the rage but are they a healthy way of venting anger?

Places where people pay to smash things to let out their anger might just be a temporary fix, say experts

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Akshara Srivastava New Delhi
It was 2017 and Anushka Gupta (name changed on request) was looking for a way to “let it all out”. So she did something that was, to put it mildly, out of the ordinary. She headed to a scrapyard near her house in New Delhi, paid the worker there Rs 500 as he looked at her incredulously, armed herself with a spanner and furiously started attacking everything she saw in that small shed.

She smashed the TV, the music systems and the metal cans. She stomped on and crushed the many discarded earphones. Then she turned her attention to a

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