The roid rage myth

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Steroids can not make one aggressive and hotheaded, who is not already so! However; an increase in testosterone (or synthetic testosterone) levels is bound to turn up the emotional temperature. If you're a positive and upbeat person, you'll likely become more-so. If you have a tendency towards hotheaded aggression, this will be more pronounced. Let's also take into account how steroid use is typically viewed, by society at large. There are a lot of negative ideas about the use of anabolic steroids and that is bound to make some people feel guilty about using them! Some may find this aspect upsetting enough to lash out.

The amount of misinformation being spread about performance enhancing drugs is obscene! The truth is: there are appropriate and inappropriate uses of these substances. If you use them intelligently, the risks are minimal. You have to look at the risk to benefit ratio and take the time to plan your cycles properly! If you don't take that course of action, you deserve whatever side-effects you get from your ignorant decision. If you're going to add a tool to your kit, you'd better have a good reason for it and know how to use that tool! To discount a tool that could be of use to you; because of someone else doesn't like it, is downright foolish!

The ongoing campaign against PED's is the result of what's been coined "Neo-McCarthyism". There was a time when professional sports were riddled with steroid use and it was widely accepted. It was the US government who decided to demonize anabolic steroids, because the "evil Russians" were using them (anabolic steroids=Communism). The medical establishment had not not opposed to the use of anabolics by athletes; but after being fed so much propaganda, is pushing the same agenda.

From a moral standpoint; the only time I would deem it "wrong" to use PED's, is if you're an athlete competing in a drug tested federation. If you use and lie about it: you're pretty much just a scumbag.

I'm all for roids but you have to have a serious bias, or misunderstanding to truthfully believe that steroids cause no more increased aggression and mood swings than caffeine...

They don't have mood altering compounds? They alter your hormone levels for christ sake, which has potential to alter your mood, regardless of the situation.

I found reducing my testosterone with hormone meds made me less irritable, less angry & generally alittle happier so I'd imagine that steroid use would cause the opposite effects sense testosterone would be increased.

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Roid-rage could also be partially due to the increased heart-rate and high blood-pressure that steroids likely cause while on them.

This is off topic but I've always wondered if the world would be more peaceful if testosterone levels in men lowered a bit. Then this came out recently.

Did feminization create modern humans?

One thing that's peculiar is that human males have much more testosterone than any ape males.

OK. Go on any steroid forum and read people's experiences with trenbolone or halotestin, or even anadrol or superdrol, or going further down the line, testosterone suspension (oh man, it's the same stuff as in your own body, right?) I used to be pro-steroid before actually talking to and reading forum posts of idiotic steroid users. Now I'm very much anti-steroid for the most part, as Dr. Ziegler, the man who pioneered Dianabol use in athletes said, "I lost interest in fooling with IQ's of that caliber. Now it's about as widespread among these idiots as marijuana." And "but I wish to God now I?d never done it. I?d like to go back and take that whole chapter out of my life."

The problem is, bodybuilders are NOT taking steroids as medically designed, and they're taking compounds that have fallen out of medical use due to side effects, or were never approved drugs at all (Superdrol) due to their toxicity. But as far as the dosing. Your body naturally makes about 60mg testosterone a week. The most any medical professional will let someone take is 250mg as testosterone replacement therapy. Most bodybuilders generally run a gram a week, with many running 3-5 or more easily. So only 4-20x the max recommended dose. Perfectly healthy, perfectly safe. Even with Dianabol (methandione) the medically recommended dose for full androgen replacement therapy was 5mg, but most bodybuilders will take 30mg per day or more for weeks at a time, on top of their gram of testosterone or nandrolone or whatever other drugs.

Several studies have provided evidence that the link between anabolic steroid use and aggression may (partly) be due to self-selection:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25261635
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3218214/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16585446
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12821208
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12762541
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11693226

Individuals who already possess aggressive (or outright antisocial) traits may thus be more likely than others to begin using steroids.

From the most recent study (the top one above):

It baffles me how people, even those educated on the subject, treat steroids as some monolithic group of medicine. Steroids vary greatly. An Anavar and low Test cycle won't give anyone roid rage.

Roid rage is not a myth, however. I've seen gentle, almost timid lifters turn into raging lunatics on a Halotestin cycle. That stuff is hate in a bottle. Add in some Tren and a gram of Test and witness the horror.