Anger, the new disease; mental peace could be next.

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Is Anger a Sign of a Drug Deficiency? Robert Jay Rowen, MDJust when you thought you were safe from the clutchesof newly made up psychiatric disorders, they have inventedanother syndrome. But this one is even more common thanmost. If fact, it’s likely almost all of us have had thisnew “disease” at one time or another.Yes, dear reader. If you’ve ever gotten enraged at somejerk who cut you off in traffic, you may suffer fromIntermittent Explosive Disorder, or IED.Like most names of psych diagnoses, IED is a descriptionof symptoms only. It has nothing to do with the etiologyof the problem. (They would likely diagnose me with“alternative medical madness.”)According to the shrinks who made up the disease, IEDis most prevalent in young adults. It usually startsaround age 13 in boys and age 19 in girls. It

increasesrapidly thereafter, but falls off by the time you reachyour 40s. And it’s even less prevalent by your 60s.IED most often manifests itself in road rage and schoolviolence. The syndrome is marked by the victim “misinterpretinganother person’s harmless action as a personal threat to themand respond by slapping, hitting, or threatening anotherperson, by breaking things, by punching holes in walls orby trying to run somebody down with their car,” says authorDr. Emil Coccaro, University of Chicago’s chief of psychiatry.He is hailing his work as proof that IED “is really out thereand a lot of people have it.”Of course, this is exciting news to Big Pharma. The big drugcompanies must be salivating at this report. Maybe they’lllobby to dump tranquilizers in the water supply, like fluoride.After all, they need to protect you from your neighbor’s angerproblem.By the way, the same article that

calls anger a disease placesthe blame for this disease on TV and bad parenting! If you’rewondering how it can be a disease if it’s caused by watchingTV, you may move to the head of the class.As ludicrous as this whole story is, the shrinks did get onething right: road rage and school violence are causes forconcern. But I wouldn’t place most of the blame on bad parenting and TV.While violence on TV is getting much worse and parenting isn’twhat it used to be, there’s a lot of evidence that somethingelse is at work in people who regularly lose their temper. I’lltell you what it is in our next health alert.Yours for better health and medical freedom,Robert Jay Rowen, MD "Our ideal is not the spirituality that withdraws from life but the conquest of life by the power of the spirit."

- Aurobindo.

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Dear Dr. Rowen from Anne in Conn.

 

" I understand that the disease of OCD Obesseive Compulsive Disorder

is correlated with Anti-Biotic usage and is suspected of being caused

by an underproduction of Estrogen. Since the purpose of Estrogen is

to " attract a mate " ; excessive grooming a sysmpton of OCD makes sense.

The lower the Estrogen the more Grooming to " attract a mate " .comment?-

-- In , Jagannath

Chatterjee <jagchat01 wrote:

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> Is Anger a Sign of a Drug Deficiency?

> Robert Jay Rowen, MD

>

> Just when you thought you were safe from the clutches

> of newly made up psychiatric disorders, they have invented

> another syndrome. But this one is even more common than

> most. If fact, it's likely almost all of us have had this

> new " disease " at one time or another.

>

> Yes, dear reader. If you've ever gotten enraged at some

> jerk who cut you off in traffic, you may suffer from

> Intermittent Explosive Disorder, or IED.

>

> Like most names of psych diagnoses, IED is a description

> of symptoms only. It has nothing to do with the etiology

> of the problem. (They would likely diagnose me with

> " alternative medical madness. " )

>

> According to the shrinks who made up the disease, IED

> is most prevalent in young adults. It usually starts

> around age 13 in boys and age 19 in girls. It increases

> rapidly thereafter, but falls off by the time you reach

> your 40s. And it's even less prevalent by your 60s.

>

> IED most often manifests itself in road rage and school

> violence. The syndrome is marked by the victim " misinterpreting

> another person's harmless action as a personal threat to them

> and respond by slapping, hitting, or threatening another

> person, by breaking things, by punching holes in walls or

> by trying to run somebody down with their car, " says author

> Dr. Emil Coccaro, University of Chicago's chief of psychiatry.

> He is hailing his work as proof that IED " is really out there

> and a lot of people have it. "

>

> Of course, this is exciting news to Big Pharma. The big drug

> companies must be salivating at this report. Maybe they'll

> lobby to dump tranquilizers in the water supply, like fluoride.

> After all, they need to protect you from your neighbor's anger

> problem.

>

> By the way, the same article that calls anger a disease places

> the blame for this disease on TV and bad parenting! If you're

> wondering how it can be a disease if it's caused by watching

> TV, you may move to the head of the class.

>

> As ludicrous as this whole story is, the shrinks did get one

> thing right: road rage and school violence are causes for

> concern.

>

> But I wouldn't place most of the blame on bad parenting and TV.

> While violence on TV is getting much worse and parenting isn't

> what it used to be, there's a lot of evidence that something

> else is at work in people who regularly lose their temper. I'll

> tell you what it is in our next health alert.

>

> Yours for better health and medical freedom,

> Robert Jay Rowen, MD

>

>

> " Our ideal is not the spirituality that withdraws from life but

the conquest of life by the power of the spirit. " - Aurobindo.

>

>

>

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> Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and

30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less.

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