pretty sure I have intermittent explosive disorder....

[cookiepuss]

Watch ouT!:mad:

CHICAGO - 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.

"People think it's bad behavior and that you just need an attitude adjustment, but what they don't know ... is that there's a biology and cognitive science to this," said Dr. Emil Coccaro, chairman of psychiatry at the University of Chicago's medical school.

Road rage, temper outbursts that involve throwing or breaking objects and even spousal abuse can sometimes be attributed to the disorder, though not everyone who does those things is afflicted.

By definition, intermittent explosive disorder involves multiple outbursts that are way out of proportion to the situation. These angry outbursts often include threats or aggressive actions and property damage. The disorder typically first appears in adolescence; in the study, the average age of onset was 14.



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060605/ap_on_sc/road_rage_disease

[beastieangel01]

I have slight road rage, only because it becomes the number of stupid people becomes extremely apparent on the road. I yell, curse, and honk a lot.

[cosmo105]

that totally sounds like a farting disease.

[Bob]

i've been getting road rage more and more lately. i don't know if drivers here are getting worse, or if i'm just noticing it more and more, but jesus christ. so many tailgaters and people who don't signal their turns and lane changes and just assholes in general.

what's been killing me (although hopefully never literally) lately is this; you're on the highway, in moderately heavy traffic, in the far right lane, and you're driving next to an onramp. there's plenty of room to merge between you and the car behind you, but not really between you and the car ahead of you (and traffic's moving too slow for you to really do anything about that). but the guy in the onramp doesn't want to take the space behind you, he just sort of drives up next to you, not quite fast enough to pass you, but not slow enough to fall behind and merge, he's just gonna hang out right next to you and sort of speed up and slow down for awhile without actually passing you. jesus christ i hate these people. i want to get out of my car and throw them into traffic, that's how much i hate them. pass or don't, i don't care, but make up your mind you fuck.

i also hate it when there's heavy traffic, and you're on the onramp, trying to merge, and some asshole who's apparently in a hurry decides to change lanes ONTO the onramp (no signal, of course) and exacerbate things. these guys need to die too, or at least have their licenses revoked.

i don't honk, because i'm always afraid of that one crazy guy who has a gun in his glove compartment and is waiting for just ONE MORE THING to go wrong today, but jesus christ, never drive in connecticut if you can help it. i can't wait to move to boston and leave my car behind, i'm sick of driving in traffic.

so maybe i've got IED too i don't know

[cosmo105]

the city that my school's in has some of the worst drivers i've ever seen. i won't say what ethnicity they are, because i don't want to be a bigot, but i'll just say armeniansay antcay ivedray. lol! but seriously, it's ridiculous along the main street. so many people just stop in the middle of 50 mph traffic to pull into a parking spot, oh, and there's this one gas station where people are ALWAYS sticking out and it completely stops two lanes...but i don't let it bother me. i once honked at an old lady in curlers, muumuu and all, that was stopping traffic waiting to turn left (she could have easily gone into the middle lane to do so), and she screamed SHADDUP and scared the hell out of me.

i just do my best to be a decent driver and roll my eyes when people do idiotic things. i know i'm pretty spastic and get lost a lot so i'm understanding when it's an honest mistake, but when someone's an asshole and runs a light or cuts someone off, that's the worst. still, i don't say anything because i'd rather not get shot.

[Bob]

yeah, i'm pretty forgiving usually too. like if someone doesn't see the greenlight, i'll give them a good 5 seconds or so before i honk, and even then it's just a little "beep", not a HOOOONNNNNNNNNNKKKKKYOUFAGGOT. there's no need for that.

deliberate asshole driving though, it's really getting on my nerves. tailgaters i just can't stand. they piss me off because there's nothing you can do about them. i hate it when people tailgate me when i'm not even leading traffic. i'm following three other people and the jerk behind me is tailgating. oh, i'm sorry i'm slowing you down, let me just turn my car into ethereal mode and drive through these guys in front of me, i know you're in a rush to get to 7/11.

i'm not a slow driver by any means, i usually do 10-15 mph above the speed limit. i think that's reasonable. there's no need to tailgate.

you know the more i think about it, the more i realize i AM that crazy guy who's waiting for one more thing to go wrong today. i just gotta get a gun

[enree erzweglle]

You would love my neighborhood's entrance onto the highway. It's short and it is at a stop sign. You've got to come to a complete stop and then you've got maybe 40 yards to get to 60 and cut across two lanes of a weave zone (where highway traffic is exiting right and you've got to merge left).

Right after the merge point is the entrance to a tunnel and for some reason, tunnels cause some people to panic. So you get your 12-year-old car up to 60 or 65 in a miraculously tiny number of seconds, merge across the weavey lanes, and then often have to slam the 12-year-old breaks on when some lone someone has come to a crawl because of the scary tunnel holes.

Honestly, there's not enough time to express anything or even gesture at anyone but I am thinking that IED was spawned at wonderfully engineered highway exit/entrances like this one.

[Bob]

i would probably vomit with rage if i had to drive through that. i wouldn't even bother, i'd find a way around. even if it put an extra 20 minutes on my commute, i wouldn't touch that entrance, it sounds hellish.

[enree erzweglle]

i would probably vomit with rage if i had to drive through that. i wouldn't even bother, i'd find a way around. even if it put an extra 20 minutes on my commute, i wouldn't touch that entrance, it sounds hellish.I learned how to merge onto highways when I was 16 using that entrance. My dad was a merciless instructor. :)

I usually do use an alternate entrance although sometimes, I'm RIGHT at the shitty one so I'll take it. I always thank my car for getting through it without getting IED itself.

[jabumbo]

if people in front of me don't use turn signals and i follow them through the turn, i keep turning on and off my turn signal as a follow them down the road.

i did get one guy to notice because he did use a signal his next turn

[enree erzweglle]

if people in front of me don't use turn signals and i follow them through the turn, i keep turning on and off my turn signal as a follow them down the road.

i did get one guy to notice because he did use a signal his next turnWhat do you do to signal that the car ahead of you has their turn signal or blinkers on and they don't know it.

Kills me when someone's had their right signal going for miles and then they'll turn left.

[Bob]

What do you do to signal that the car ahead of you has their turn signal or blinkers on and they don't know it.

Kills me when someone's had their right signal going for miles and then they'll turn left.

argh, seriously. although i consider that to be in the "honest mistake" category, and i don't see it too often, so i let it slide.

waaaayyy too many people don't signal their turns, though. too many for it to be a mistake, they're doing it on purpose. i don't get that. why would you not do that? it's not hard, you just flick your wrist a little. do you think it makes you cool? i'd wish for them to get into an accident, but then i'd probably get stuck in the resulting delay, so screw that. i'll just hope they get pulled over eventually.

i never see these people getting pulled over. that's what kills me too. just once, before i die, i'd like to be cut off, and then see a cop car turn on its sirens and take off after the crapsucker. that would make everything worth it.

[enree erzweglle]

argh, seriously. although i consider that to be in the "honest mistake" category, and i don't see it too often, so i let it slide.

waaaayyy too many people don't signal their turns, though. too many for it to be a mistake, they're doing it on purpose. i don't get that. why would you not do that? it's not hard, you just flick your wrist a little.It's odd, yes. I see a lot of old people who don't use their signals--maybe more so than young people. That does lend some credibility to your lazy-wrist theory (maybe it's not that they don't want to do it but that they physically can't do it :)).

i never see these people getting pulled over. that's what kills me too. just once, before i die, i'd like to be cut off, and then see a cop car turn on its sirens and take off after the crapsucker. that would make everything worth it.It happens in movies all the time.

[marsdaddy]

Invariably the person not signaling, or making a dangerous maneuver is on a cell phone. How hard is it to tell the person on the other end of the phone, "hold on a sec, I need to make a lane change."?

I've had to adjust to driving a new and bigger car with a new baby. I've found that I drive much slower than before.:cool:

[cosmo105]

uggh they are ALWAYS on the phone. i try not to talk on the phone when i'm driving, unless it's a long stretch on a road i'm very familiar with. sometimes on the freeway if there's a lot of traffic i'll talk a little. other than that - especially on city streets - i'll say let me call you back, or not pick up at all. just not safe.

a fun game to play in the car is count the cell phone drivers. it's scary how quickly they add up.

[Bob]

i never talk on the cell phone while driving either. nobody calls me, but if they did, i definitely wouldn't pick up while driving

[cosmo105]

so that's your fucking excuse for not calling back? you've been driving for three weeks? damnit bob, i'm tired of this game

[Bob]

i'm a rolling stone baby

[abcdefz]

Explosive disorder (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRBkQe_lwak)

[cookiepuss]

^LOL. good one.

[jabumbo]

i never talk on the cell phone while driving either. nobody calls me, but if they did, i definitely wouldn't pick up while driving


yeah, same here. although if i am planning on meeting someone, and they call usually i will pick it up. but most of my conversations take little brainpower, so its not hard for me to do both

[Documad]

i hate it when people tailgate me when i'm not even leading traffic. i'm following three other people and the jerk behind me is tailgating.
I drove on the interstate yesterday for about nine hours. I can't tell you how many people did that. I always drive in the left lane. In the country stretches, I move out of the way of faster traffic, even though I'm already going way above the speed limit.

But when we're all in a huge cluster and I'm going as fast as traffic allows, if I get a tailgater then, I'll slow up gradually to the point of bugging the shit out of the car behind me. If it's night time, I'll flip up my rear view mirror in an obvious way.

At this point, it's nearly impossible to get me mad when I'm in the car. It's just so pointless and I have to drive a lot so I'd go insane if I let stupid people get to me. The only time I've had words with anyone lately was a guy who took my parking spot at Costco when I'd been obviously waiting for it. Long story, but I kind of yelled at him before I realized that he was ancient, and then I felt bad. I always park way in the back of parking lots rather than prowling but I had my mom with me and she gets confused at the Costco entrance. :o

[marsdaddy]

but most of my conversations take little brainpower, so its not hard for me to do bothIt's range of motion and paying attention to the road. You have to look over your shoulder. And don't look at the keypad when you dial.

[Documad]

It's range of motion and paying attention to the road. You have to look over your shoulder. And don't look at the keypad when you dial.
I think my satellite radio is more dangerous than my cellphone. It's difficult to read the song title when I'm driving. It's even more difficult to change the station and read the little scrolling thing, plus the display is counter-intuitive because it looks like you need to turn the dial right but it goes the wrong way when you do that. Yesterday when I started hitting traffic I forced myself to leave it on one station the whole time.

Also, the video ipod has a more difficult screen to use in the car. The font is smaller and thus it's more difficult to select a song.

[enree erzweglle]

research into advantages to road rage (http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30431)

[zorra_chiflada]

people that get road rage are softcocks. i have life rage.


that sounded really fucking gay, i'm sorry.