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Intermittent Explosive Disorder: Anger Attacks Common Among U.S. Teens, Study Shows

posted at 4/7/2012 1:44 AM BST on bmj.com
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posted at 4/7/2012 10:47 AM BST on bmj.com
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The new study, published in the journal Archives of General Psychiatry, shows that uncontrollable anger is quite common among teens, but is not being treated. The uncontrollable anger researchers studied included property damage, threats of violence, or actually engaging in violence.
Almost two-thirds of teens have engaged in a threatening or physically violent anger attack in their lives, with one in 12 teens actually meeting the diagnostic criteria for
intermittent explosive disorder (IED).
According to the researchers, intermittent explosive disorder is given as a diagnosis when a person has had at least three incidences of being aggressive that the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders defines as "grossly out of proportion to any precipitating psychosocial stressor.''
A serious social matter but thanks for reviewing a good clinical study.

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posted at 5/7/2012 5:44 AM BST on bmj.com
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Good coverage of the topic Dr Ashutosh.   I often wonder whether Psychiatrists are categorizing too many things as disorders!    When I was a teen,  if a teenager was violent one to three times we called it a crime, and the person was arrested and punished.   Now we call intermittent Explosive disorder?   So if the same teen rapes 3 girls is he diagnosed with Intermittent Sexual Fascination Disorder??   I mean where is the reason?   Why must terrible behavior be explained and categorized so as to make it more palatable>?
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