Explosive Anger Disorder/Intermittent Rage Disorder

Explosive Anger Disorder! (EAD). Or, Intermittent Rage Disorder (IRD). Take your pick of labels and/or abbreviations.

These are "new" labels in the lexicon of the psychologists and psychiatrists. (You should know that most such labels are made up in order to get paid by insurance companies, and have no relation to real diagnosis.) It's for an old problem that has been around for many decades. The funny thing is that most doctors have refused to recognize it, or the cause, and most still don't

The official party line of the American Medical Assn is that if there is no diabetes (measurable sugar affect), then there's no sugar problem. As is often the case, they're WRONG! The problem is virtually always a sugar problem. Of course, Big Pharma doesn’t want you to know what the actual cause is.

Hypoglycemia is a medical term for "low blood sugar". The brain requires large amounts of glucose and oxygen for fuel. When it goes below a certain point, a hypoglycemic episode occurs. This can become almost any symptom up to and including coma and even death. In most cases, such a hypoglycemic episode may only cause drowsiness or sleepiness, but fainting and passing out is not unknown.

Let’s examine the actual cause of the "new" disease (label for insurance purposes) called "Explosive Anger Disorder" (EDT). As a result of blood sugar going low because of excessive insulin released, both adrenalin and testosterone may be released in males. (In women, estrogen is released which doesn’t cause anger with adrenalin.) In some males, this combination causes what is called "undifferentiated" rage. Does that sound like "explosive anger" to you? Of course it is. Why do medical researchers keep re-inventing the wheel? And, all too often the wrong wheel?

This is undoubtedly is a part of the current "road rage" problem as well as childhood tantrums, spousal abuse, bar fights, etc.

Back in the 1980's, I had several male patients who had this form of hypoglycemia. I also found that they all fit a "special" format of the MMPI (Minnesota Multiple Personality Inventory) test for "psuedo-schizoprenia". Since that time, I have seen such "rages" in boys, and some men. If investigated, it will usually be found that they are in a 3-4 hour time period after eating (or drinking) a lot of carbohydrates and sugars.

Temper tantrums are not unusual, particularly in "spoiled kids", but if it occurs about 3-4 hours after a "sweet meal", you can be pretty sure that child has a sugar handling problem, and needs to limit carbohydrates/sugars.

Glucose is the form of sugar in the blood. This has been transformed in the digestive process from other sugars and starches into glucose then passed into the bloodstream.

Hypoglycemia is usually caused by too much insulin driving too much glucose into the body cells, which depletes the supply of glucose available to the brain (and other areas). Since the brain depends on a constant supply of both oxygen and glucose to even function, there are several methods that the body uses to make sure that glucose is available. First is the release of adrenalin (the fight or flight response in effect. If this not enough, then fatty acids and hormones are released and changed into glucose.

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