excited delirium
concept
3 mentions
3 recordings
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 3 May
±0 vs the 6 months before
Concept describing extreme agitation and distress, not medically recognized
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Peak in the week of 30 Apr — 1 mentions across 1 series.
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentGrace TobinABC News Daily · The investigation into police Taser safety · 9:34 · 3 May
…Well, excited delirium is a very controversial condition or diagnosis that actually at this point in time has been rejected by medical and psychiatry groups.…
CriminalExcited Delirium · 25:39 · 6 Mar
…Excited delirium is this term that has a really contentious history, a racist history, and it's used to describe a collection of symptoms.…
Malcolm GladwellRevisionist History: The Staten Island Problem · Memorial Day, 2020 | Part 2 · 5:20 · Mar 2025
…Excited delirium is something that Lane must have learned about at the police academy, a state of extreme agitation, aggression, and distress. It's not an officially recognized clinical diagnosis. Listen.…
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