Why people "snap"

[backtoblue]

Source: CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/05/26/snap.moments/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

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There are clear risk factors to snapping, psychiatrists say. These include brain tumors, seizures, alcohol and drug abuse, and psychosis stemming from schizophrenia or other disorders.

Another risk factor is a condition called delusional disorder -- and in particular the "persecutory type" -- that causes people to believe that someone is plotting against them, Rossiter said. People with psychotic depression and schizophrenia may also develop such delusions, he said.

Although none of these risk factors is a certain predictor of snapping, there are associated warning signs, Raison said. If a person becomes unusually paranoid or suspicious, believes someone is out to get him or her, or says God told him or her to kill someone, these all indicate that the person may do something to harm someone else. They may stop bathing, become extremely agitated, and "go from 0 to 60 in a second," he said.


God told me to go to kill. Sound familiar?

[Arctic Dave]

1. I just wish whenthey do snap, they would choose their targets better.

Like the people in charge that are screwing them over.

[ashling]

2. Oh, snap!

I hate that expression. Now we know. Watch out for DUers who use this expression.

:rofl:

[canetoad]

3. I'm sure 'snapping' is sometimes the result of mental illness

and other times a dismal failure to exercise self-control.

[shadowknows69]

4. Or sometimes they just can't stand being fucked by the system anymore

And not even being bought dinner.

[backtoblue]

5. without lubrication, no less!

:hide:

[asteroid2003QQ47]

6. Humiliate you, me, everyone here, enough and they will "snap,"...

when that 'right' button is pushed, look out.
That's my take on it.

[thereismore]

7. I highly doubt that "snap" is a well-defined scientific term by DSM-IV. Some reporting! nt