Here's a better Q-
Anyone care to speculate how much reports of people "going postal" these
days is because of some rescource or need not getting met?

Basically it seems as if there's a bit of a surge in people that are full
of Zeal  and Gall- that are infurated some need or want isn't met.



On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 11:30 AM, glen <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Just for posterity, here's the DSM-IV entry for amok:
>
> A dissociative episode characterized by a period of brooding followed by
>> an outburst of violent, aggressive, or homicidal behavior directed at
>> people and objects. The episode tends to be precipitated by a perceived
>> slight or insult and seems to be prevalent only among males. The episode is
>> often accompanied by persecutory ideas, automatism, amnesia, exhaustion,
>> and a return to premorbid state following the episode. Some instances of
>> amok may occur during a brief psychotic episode or constitute the onset or
>> an exacerbation of a chronic psychotic process. The original reports that
>> used this term were from Malaysia. A similar behavior pattern is found in
>> Laos, Philippines, Polynesia (cafard or cathard), Papua New Guinea, and
>> Puerto Rico (mal de pelea), and among the Navajo (iich’aa).
>>
>
> -- scanned by the Text Fairy https://github.com/renard314/textfairy
>
>
> On 01/04/2016 12:26 PM, glen wrote:
>
>>
>> Yes, it's in DSM-IV, just not 5, as far as I can tell.
>>
>> On 01/04/2016 12:10 PM, Nick Thompson wrote:
>>
>>> Really, Glen.  NOT in the DSM-IV or V?  Did you try "amuck".  That seems
>>> to be the culturally appropriate spelling for Malaysia, anyway.  It would
>>> be nice not to be wrong about everything.
>>>
>>
>>
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