Oh, please. If you just get mad, you have a bad temper. But if you get mad -- unreasonably so -- often enough, you can have Intermittent Explosive Disorder, your very own disease:
People who had three such episodes within the space of one year - a more narrowly defined subgroup - were found to have a much more persistent and severe disorder, particularly if they attacked both people and property. The latter group caused 3.5 times more property damage than other violent IED sub-groups. Affecting nearly 4 percent of adults within any given year - 5.9-8.5 million Americans - the disorder leads to a mean of 43 attacks over the course of a lifetime and is associated with substantial functional impairment.
Maybe they ought to call it the Bobby Knight Syndrome. Three episodes in a year? That would include just about everybody but Mother Theresa and the Dali Lama. This is the best new disesase since "cultural psychosis" and "sex addiction" to explain bad behavior one does not want to take personal responsibility for.
