Posted on 06/06/2006 9:41:00 AM PDT by neverdem
One in 20 Americans may be susceptible to repeated, uncontrollable anger attacks in which they lash out in road rage, spousal abuse or other unjustifiably violent actions, researchers from Harvard and the University of Chicago have found.
Their nationwide study suggests a condition called intermittent explosive disorder, or IED, is not the rare occurrence that psychiatrists had previously thought. Four to five percent of people in the study were found to have physically assaulted someone, threatened bodily harm or destroyed property in a rage an average of five times a year.
Intermittent explosive disorder is different from the common type of anger most people exhibit from time to time when they pout, throw a book down or walk out of a room, activities that are better described as mild temper tantrums. IED is defined as repeated and uncontrollable anger attacks that often become violent.
"Our new study suggests IED is really out there and that a lot of people have it," Dr. Emil Coccaro, the U. of C.'s chief of psychiatry, said. "That's the first step for the public to actually get treated for it, because if you don't think it's really a disorder, you're never going to get treated for it."
Coccaro was the first to show, through a preliminary 2004 study, that IED might be an unrecognized major mental health problem. He also pioneered therapy designed to treat the disorder involving anti-depressants, mood disorder medications like lithium and cognitive therapy.
The new research, reported in the current issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry, involved person-to-person interviews of 9,282 people 18 years and older conducted from 2001 to 2003. The subjects were part of the National Comorbidity Survey Replication, a government-funded epidemiological study of mental health.
The authors said their findings suggest two disturbing trends that will require...
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Quite a few ampersands in three...
It is unbelievable that Psychologists charcterize losing your temper while driving as a disorder but being gay is normal. A person who cannot relate normally to the opposite sex and who are attracted to the same sex obviously have a serious DISORDER.
I have MDS. Manufactured Disease Syndrome is reaching epidemic proportions. Please help. Send as large a donation as I tell you to to...
three =there
;)
"Gee, Officer Krupke, I have a social disease!"
So many questions, so few answers.
BS overload, probably. It has been on the rise since "But your honor, he just needed killin'." has no longer been an acceptable defense.
Explosive disorder?
No, that's just a temper tantrum. Now, throwing the golf cart is IED!
The more people that are diagnosed with some kind of mental disorder, the more people that are disqualified from owning firearms.
Always think in terms of the END GAME.
In this episode: Citizen X is stopped and questioned by a Committee Member.
Scene: Unity in Diversity Way, a public thoroughfare, Grayburg, USA.
Citizen X! Produce your papers!
Yes sir. Which papers would the Committee Member like to see?
Don't play dumb with the Member, Citizen! I want to see all the papers you are required to carry when you leave your dwelling.
We'll start with your
Caloric Intake Ration Card
and your current
CO2 Personal Emissions Results.
Then I will need you to produce your
Contributions to the State Testimonials,
and
Permissions for Animal Companions
(if any).
Then your
Certificate of Tolerance
Personal Travel Limits License
Public Transit Compliance Forms
Personal Habitat Authorization
Allowed Personal Consumption Schedule,
your
Mullah's Permission to Marry or Cohabitate
and
Fitness to Propagate Adjudication Receipt
Sir, I can produce my CIRC, CPER, my CST's, PAC's, my CT, PTLL, PTCFs and my PHA. Unfortunately, my AC ate my APCS, MPMC and my FPAR.
I see by your hat that you have been to Reeducation. Would you like to go again?
No sir.
You have one week to straighten out your documents. Your Neighborhood Lurker will be informed!
A fixit ticket?
Thats right, a fixit ticket. One week!
Damn...
Stay tuned for further Adventures of Citizen X!
While there might be possibilities to start a Foundation, just think of the tax dollars which will go to grant money to be pi$$ed down this rathole.
Uh-uh. Calm down now, or they'll diagnose you!
Just one thin mint
In this episode: Citizen X falls in love...
Scene: The lunch counter of the public cafeteria in the basement of the Lockstep Transient Authority Building, Grayburg, USA. The counter is deserted except for Citizen X. Behind the counter is a pert young thing apparently of the feminine gender.
I would like apple pie and coffee please.
Hahahahaha! This is the third time this week youve ordered pie. Im gonna need to see your Caloric Intake Ration Card!
Theres an extra hillary in it for you if we forget about the card.
A hillary? No way. Im not taking a risk like that for a damn hillary.
Ok, make it two hillaries. Cmon, I accidentally spindled my card. Theres no one else here...
Livin on the edge huh? I see by your hat youve been to reedu. It probably served you right...
Yeah, Ive been to reedu but it was quite a while ago. I dont have to wear the hat much longer.
I had a cousin who went to reedu. He said it was the best thing that ever happened to him.
Is he retarded?
What? No! Hes not retarded!
Brain damaged?
Um...slightly. So do you live around here? Youve been coming in pretty often.
Yes. Im allotted a two hundred at the Stalin House over on Truth to Power.
Hahahahaha! Two hundred square feet at the Stalin? Whod you piss off, your Mullah or a Committee Member?
Probably both...uh, I was wondering, umm, if youre not too busy tonight, or, like, married or cohabitating, or prohibited in some other way, if, maybe you and I could maybe take a walk or something like that?
Tonight? I dunno. Whats the status of your Mullahs Permission to Marry or Cohab?
Its a little confusing. Hard to tell, really. My Mullah is the street corner variety. He only has a third grade education. I dont think he really understands the forms.
Hmmm...sounds like you have paper work problems. My ex had problems too. What a nightmare! How about your Fitness to Propagate AR?
Well...Im having problems locating that right now. I have it somewhere...
Shit! A botched MPMC AND no FPAR? Id have the lurkers on my back so fast, ID be livin at the Stalin! Damn, boy! What world are you living in? Ill pass. I gotta get back to work! Later...
But....my pie?
Stay tuned for further Adventures of Citizen X!
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