Well, there were many reasons. Most of those reasons diminished [with the development of] better drugs. If someone is experiencing more rage while they're taking anabolic steroids, is there treatment for it?
If somebody is experiencing that, chances are they are using it for illicit purposes. So they've got to get themselves in the hands of a psychiatrist. And you have to be careful, because if you suddenly stop anabolic steroids, it can precipitate a profound depression. Are there signs that parents or coaches should keep in mind -- signs that a child, an athlete, may be using steroids? One is change in musculature. Secondly, excessive acne. Third, irritability. Fourth, obsessing over muscle mass Those would be sort of some of them.
It's basically a change in personality, an obsession with your body and putting on muscle and increasing lean body mass, [excessive] use of dietary supplements, obsessing over web sites that are directed towards body building. It's a little bit of a complicated question.
If you talk about a [male] teenager, you have to distinguish between a normal adolescence, which is heralded by a surge in testosterone. If it's a difficult adolescence [in someone] who is not on anabolic steroids, they have a lot of acne, may be very irritable and may get many of the kinds of things we associate with anabolic steroids.
Except in that case, the steroids are coming from his own testicles. So it's a difficult thing for parents. They may overlook the abuse of anabolic steroids, or conversely, they may take [someone] who's not on anabolic steroids and assert that they are and lose the confidence of their kid. We know that as many as 1. There are estimates that between half a million and a million youngsters have used anabolic steroids. Particularly with the Internet, it's alarmingly so.
The chemicals can affect mood by targeting nerve cells. But research shows conflicting results for the existence of steroid-induced rages. If they do exist, they happen rarely, and likely only among excessive users with pre-existing psychological issues.
In men, steroid abuse is associated with a range of side effects, including acne, shrunken testicles, baldness, decreased sperm count, and breast development gynecomastia. Among women, steroid abuse can cause a loss of body fat, reduced breast size, a deepening of the voice and the growth of facial and body hair.
The subject's significant other spouse, live-in partner, or parent also answered the same questions about the subject's mood and behavior Observer Mood Inventory, OMI. No differences were observed between exercising and nonexercising and between placebo and TE treated subjects for any of the 5 subdomains of MAI.
Conclusion: Supraphysiological doses of testosterone, when administered to normal men in a controlled setting, do not increase angry behavior. These data do not exclude the possibility that still higher doses of multiple steroids might provoke angry behavior in men with preexisting psychopathology.
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