Intermittent Explosive Disorder - Is It Within You?

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wilhelm "The best solution is of course to lead a more fruitful life, be cheerful always and build up love for the people around you. When you love the people with you, you will be better able to control these destructive surges of emotion."
amusing. i actually laughed out loud		 3/3/2011
Tammy M IED-A personal story

Roger Heater took a break from his pro-bono talks to complete writing his autobiography-‘From Institutions to Freedom’. It is slated to be finished by the end of the year.

However, his passion in sharing his story doesn’t stop with his book. There is so much to learn about this illness that we need to continue to talk to those places, to those people who will take away a piece of this powerful, compelling and motivational story and bring hope to those who may be suffering in one way or another.

Roger’s story tells us of a boy with such rage attacks that his young mother, having no help and no answers gave custody of him to the State of Califonia. Even the professionals were bewildered with his behavior. They called him ‘incorrigible’. In other words he was incapable of being changed.

The hospitals gave him drugs like Ritalin and Valium to calm him temporarily but they did nothing to understand why he was acting the way he was. Roger spent a few years in mental institutions. These horrible places were exactly like what you see in the movies… mentally and physically challenged adults mixed with children that were given up on. Violent and unstable children and adults filled the halls, walking around like zombies and screaming for no reason at all. There was Roger in the middle of it all, not knowing why he was there and being forced to live in such horrific conditions because no one know what to do with him. A lonely young boy without anyone to tell them that things would be ok.

Roger learned to adapt to every situation, to every place he was sent to. He still got into trouble but with his quick wit, he knew how to manipulate the other kids that lived with him and the adults that took care of him. Roger ran away but the authorities always found him and returned him to the place he hated to be-away from his mother and the family that loved him.

Roger lived in institutions and group homes for about 4 years. They didn’t want to send him to another group home so a group of psychiatrists decided he wasn’t capable of being a productive member of society and would be a dangerous threat to the public. They only thing that could be done to "change" this child was to send him to Napa State Hospital to receive electric shock treatments..

Want to hear the rest of his story?

Contact us at www(dot)heaterproductions(dot)com to book this amazing speaker. Don’t wait another moment- It all starts with one voice-YOURS		 1/10/2011
ALFL yes, a start to understand this. where does one find help? 1/18/2010
Emma yes, can you help more with how to help my daughter with this, it hereditary 8/3/2009
Claire this is great, I've been trying to help my friend and i think this is what he may have. 7/31/2009
sampath yes i think so , but i need soution for this problem. please can u suggest how is possible 12/28/2008
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