Anger control and Neurontin: This is certainly synchronistic -- ...

Anger control and Neurontin: This is certainly synchronistic -- having a personal reference in this forum, just when I have discovered an exciting new resource for us takers of Neurontin! As a certified counselor, as well as a userid of Neurontin (for fybromyalgia) I am always interested in the biological sources of psycho-mental states, and a new -- to my bookshelf -- book titled "Change Your Brain, Change YOur Life" answers a lot of the questions I have personally, and ones seen here. Written by an MD Psychiatrist named Danel G. Amen,the subtitle is "Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Anger and Impulsiveness" and details his research and clinical practice with using SPECT brain studies (nuclear medicine pictures of activity in, and damage to, the brain) for people with the above named problems, as well as AHAD and ADD (the schoolteachers' bane.) The pertinent point here (and this was an amazing piece of information for me) is that Neurontin has been used successfully in helping people who have problems that therapy alone doesn't touch! This book explains for me the chages in my own mental state, and in others, like spouse (who takes Zoloft for obsessiveness/compulsion, and a mild case of Tourette's and anger). So I apologize to "Guest" for my previous uninformed speculations about anger control -- I was wrong -- and reccommend this book for ALL Neurontin userids who are interested in the drug's physical effects on mental states, for self and others. We could probably reccommend the book to our treatment doctors, too, and do the community of sufferers a world of good. Jan S. Kauffman, Certified Counselor, Elementary grades teacher, philosopher/historian of science, and Nurontin userid.