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Science Has Part of the Answer

June 6, 2006 by

Medical News Today reports that

Rage disorder, or Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED), affects 7.3% of US adults at some time during their lifetimes. The disorder comes with moments of unexpected anger in which the person may attack other people, other people’s belongings and actually hurt them and damage their property.

In most countries, public sector employment is about 15%, so the above might explain some of the problem.

{ 6 comments }

Yancey Ward June 6, 2006 at 11:09 am

Nice, now no one is responsible for their violent, unprovoked behavior.

Closet Anarchist in the Military June 6, 2006 at 11:30 am

The estimation the percentage of sociopaths, and persons suffering from delusional megalomania would better correlate with the percentage of the general population who are government employees. You really can’t do this job unless you don’t see people as human beings.

A.B. Dada June 7, 2006 at 9:43 am

For me my intermittent anger was closely related to starches and sugars (it came along with weight issues as well). When I cut back on starches and sugars (per my doctor) I lost about 60 lbs in a year and my anger issues disappeared completely and my memory issues mostly were gone.

I’m not certain if diet is the key to many people with anger issues, but the few friends of mine who do show random acts of anger have all tried cutting back on the starches and sugars so prevalent in the common diet and all have seen more stability. No spiking of blood sugar = no spiking of insulin. Who knows what effects that has?

Ryan Fuller June 7, 2006 at 6:28 pm

There’s a new defense. “Insulin made me do it.”

Person June 7, 2006 at 9:53 pm

You know, I’ve always wondered how long it will be until they “discover” and “identify” the disorder “homicidia”. An individual with homicidia (a “homicidal”) holds the following characteristics:

1) He/she has killed, or plans to kill someone.

2)He/she may deny having killed or desiring to kill.

Homicidia would be identified as having the following “risk factors”

1) A feeling of being wronged by someone increases the risk of contracting homicidia.

2) Risk of homicidia contraction is higher in males than females; in non-white, non-Asians vs. whites and Asians; in those aged 13-35 vs. those outside that range; and in gang members vs. those not affiliated with a gang.

3) Standing to gain wealth or prestige due to another’s death also increases the risk of homicidia contraction.

averros June 7, 2006 at 10:06 pm

I’ve always wondered how long it will be until they “discover” and “identify” the disorder “homicidia”.

I’m all for it as long as the prescribed treatment for this disorder is few grams of fast-moving lead.

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