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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I have an explosive disorder too, especially after eating a lot of beans.
I know a lady who rammed a bulldozer that was blocking her driveway.
WHY I OUGHTTA...!
New Iraqi roadside recruits?
Reading stories about bogus disorders makes me want to explode.
What's up with the diseasification of America? Self control no longer exists, and people can't be judged because "they're sick." But the bast part is that everyone is acting like this is groundbreaking -- as if anyone with common sense didn't already know that lots of people are born with bad tempers and (SHOCKER) their tempers get inflamed in traffic jams.
I wasn't pissed when I broke your nose I've got IED.
I slowed down and flipped off the anti-war protesters/pro-saddam advocates outside the Federal Building in Honolulu a few weeks ago.
It felt good.
I wasn't pissed when I broke your nose I've got IED.
Our society's continuing efforts to excuse everything that requires self-control makes me want to explode.
I know a lady who weighs about 90 pounds who got out of her car and went to the pickup truck behind her and punched a guy. She said, "His beefy arm was just sitting there sticking out the window and he just sat there smirking at me so I punched his arm." The guy just laughed!
Does throwing a golf club count?
aka "@ssholes"
what kind of $&^$#&(&%#)*&^%$%%^&^%*&&$%(*& is this (*&^&$&#*^%%$^% article?? another bone for the )*&%*%$# psychquacks?
If you put a name to it, you don't have to take responsibility for your misbehaviors.
Ah, another excuse to validate OUT OF CONTROL BEHAVIOR or more commonly known as LACK OF SELF CONTROL. How nice!
Welcome to the Human Race. No one gets out alive.
It goes back to the extension of the state into police powers, in particular with adding the hospitals to the justice system. That was a couple centuries ago, and continues even now right in front of our eyes. Medicine, psychology, the justice and corrections system, and the military barracks and state schools are all part of one institution. Those who are coming up with these new medical problems are part of the state, as is the press that writes about them.
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