It’s usually “alcoholism,” not “intermittent explosive disorder”
"To you, that angry, horn-blasting tailgater is suffering from road rage. But doctors have another name for it " intermittent explosive disorder " and a new study suggests it is far more common than they realized, affecting up to 16 million Americans"
So wrote Lindsay Tanner, AP medical writer, reporting on a study funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. The study was based on a national face-to-face study of 9,282 adults who answered diagnostic questionnaires. Dr. Emil Coccaro, chairman of psychiatry at the University of Chicago's medical school and one of the study's authors, said that treatment with antidepressants and behavior therapy is helpful in treating the disorder.
This is junk science at its finest.
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