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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Grace 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.…
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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.…
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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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