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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