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  • My Bad Temper is trying to goad my goals into being Goals, but so far, only my Desire to Eat Cheez-Its has been intensified.

    Today's Nanowrimo Inspirational Diatribe; Or, Don't Say We Never Did Anything For You 2009

  • SPIEGEL: And so Shaffer and his colleagues today proposed in the new DSM a diagnosis called Temper Dysregulation Disorder, a diagnosis they hope will be used by clinicians instead of the bipolar label.

    New Diagnosis Proposed For Kids Labeled 'Bipolar' 2010

  • IED, recognized as a psychiatric illness since 1980, may be combined with a new disorder, termed Temper Dysregulation Disorder, in the next edition of the official Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, the DSM-V, because both are believed to begin in adolescence.

    When Anger Is An Illness Melinda Beck 2010

  • IED, recognized as a psychiatric illness since 1980, may be combined with a new disorder, termed Temper Dysregulation Disorder, in the next edition of the official Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, the DSM-V, because both are believed to begin in adolescence.

    When Anger Is An Illness Melinda Beck 2010

  • IED, recognized as a psychiatric illness since 1980, may be combined with a new disorder, termed Temper Dysregulation Disorder, in the next edition of the official Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, the DSM-V, because both are believed to begin in adolescence.

    When Anger Is An Illness Melinda Beck 2010

  • IED, recognized as a psychiatric illness since 1980, may be combined with a new disorder, termed Temper Dysregulation Disorder, in the next edition of the official Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, the DSM-V, because both are believed to begin in adolescence.

    When Anger Is An Illness Melinda Beck 2010

  • "Temper," Kethry cautioned; it had taken years of partnership for them to be able to say the right thing at the right time to each other, but these days they seldom fouled the relationship.

    Oathbreaker Lackey, Mercedes 1989

  • a Man who is well acquainted with the generous Earnings of Distress in a manly Temper, which is above the Relief of Tears.

    The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695

  • "Temper," it was said by an English bishop, "is nine-tenths of Christianity."

    Life and Conduct J. Cameron Lees

  • They are shewing in common Talk how zealously they could defend a Cause in Court, and therefore frequently forget to keep that Temper which is absolutely requisite to render Conversation pleasant and instructive.

    The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695

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