is it me or is there a preponderance of people having outrageous meltdowns these days? I've been told that this can be characterised as an 'amygdala hijack', when the amygdala is atrophied it can no longer cope with an overload of emotional response so goes into overdrive - one of the causes of this atrophy is lack of social interactions. although I've seen it happen in people who have reasonably healthy social lives, hmmm definitely (anecdotally) seems to be a modern phenomenon any knowledgeable persons, please weight in :)