Road Rage Recognized

It is called Intermittent Explosive Disorder

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13152708/

I found this interesting.

It is quiet interesting. I was a victim of road rage once and it scared the pants outta me.

My ex-husband used to (probably still does) have terrible road rage but what was really terrible is that he would do frightening things when I was in the car with him, just to make me scared.

Besides the point, but yes ... road rage is very frightening.

I'm just not sure that everything that is being called an "illness" is truly and illness, ya know?

My UNEDUCATED guess is that it's a combination of people's sense of entitlement and not knowing or wanting to know how to control their anger or stress. People just don't have the respect for others that they used to. Parents aren't teaching their kids which, I think, brings us back to that over emphasized sense of entitlement.

Just my .02 worth...

And a very good .02 worth .... thank you for posting!

So maybe I can up it to .04?? LOL

Hehehe ... go for it.... what more do you need to say????

Yeah, I'm skeptical about it being an illness. I won't deny there are a lot of people who have trouble controlling their anger, but I'm getting tired of everything being labeled an illness or a disorder.

Hijacking taking place!

LOL No more to say! I just thought that if what I already said was so good, maybe it could be my .04 worth instead of .02!

Ok... "back to your regularly scheduled programming."

Umm...if you don't drive can you still have road rage? LOL

I thought about this too .. as I don't drive.

But I was trying to cross the road the other day ... at a pedestrian crossing ... and I very nearly got knocked over. When I asked the woman why whe did not indicate ... she told me "well I stopped eventually didn't I?". Ack!!!!

Well, there's also air rage, so I'd guess that's a disorder, too, if road rage is. But road rage is always depicted as being a driver's anger, whereas air rage is always depicted as being a passenger's anger, so I guess you don't have to drive to have...some kind of rage disability, LOL!

Nobody here gets road rage when you're behind the wheel?
I get road "entitlement" rage when people press on their breaks every 3 seconds while driving, when someone cuts in front of me and when somebody goes to make a right hand turn but first goes into the left hand lane and then makes the right hand turn without using the signal.
Also, in my neighborhood they have every other road closed off for repairs or construction and usually when I've reached the 3rd detour is about when I start to get a bad case of road block rage.

I get annoyed at some drivers, but not road rage. If someone's driving stupidly, you have a right to be angry. Anger is not rage. Rage is a high level of anger. Rage is like panic, which is a high level of fear. Panic is like ecstasy, which is a high level of pleasure. Ecstasy is like depression, which is a high level of sadness. There's normal emotions, and then there's extremes.

Oh, okay.
I just thought it meant when you curse out loud to yourself at the guy who cut you off.

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Well, some would label any aggressiveness as road rage, but that's not the correct definition of rage. It's anger that's out of control. That said, if you have a lot of outbursts, you may stress yourself enough to cause health problems.

I know the other night that we were followed for 40 miles (the incident I posted about), I was so afraid when the guy was waving us past him with his hand out the drivers window that he might have had a gun. I know that my husband moved over as far as he could into the carpool lane to avoid the guy, I slid way down into the passenger seat, hoping that if anything happened that my door would protect me more than the window.

Here is California, there is always something on the news about people shooting at other people on our freeways.

The one thing that really makes me mad is that it seems like everything that people do is defined as an illness/disorder & I definitely agree with Tomi, that the bottom line is that people don't have respect for others & that they don't know how to control their own stresses & anger. Those things are just a part of growing up.....& if there isn't appropriate training in the family, or even if the person isn't willing to become responsible for their own actions, people won't treat others the way they want to be treated themselves. To my mind, this isn't a disorder or illness, it is just plain being rude.

I added my .02 cents too, but my .02 cents are just restating Tomi's.

Debbie

This is a little off-topic, yet on the same issue of anger and not having respect for others. Look at how many people, especially those in gangs, resolve their differences with guns or other weapons. And they kill each other over minor slights, or over a misunderstanding, or over nothing at all. You hear murderers or beaters say they didn't like the way someone looked at them, or say their victim "disrespected" them. It's awful!