Sally McNeil, also known as 'Killer' McNeil, was an American professional bodybuilder before becoming a criminal by shooting her husband Ray McNeil twice in the head and abdomen on March 19, 1996.It could be another case of crime of passion, as the couple faced a crisis in their 7-year marriage with Ray's new professional aspirations and Sally's angry behavior, which caused her to lose her wrestling license by beating up one of the lovers of the husband – if the doctors hadn't tested the couple and found an alarming amount of steroids in their system, especially Sally's.The fighter was found guilty of the crime, despite having claimed self-defense, and sentenced to 19 years in prison in California, with parole only in 2022. However, what made the case widely publicized was that the crime may have happened. by an episode associated with Roid Rage, a disease caused by the high concentration of anabolic steroids in the blood.Sally McNeil.(Source: Plague of Strength)The clinical professor of medicine associated with New York University, Gary Wadler, in an interview with WebMD, defined the disease "Roid Rage" as a form of loss of impulse control, which ends up provoking exaggerated reactions based on any stimulus that normally does not produce such a severe reaction.“When someone says something you don't like, you may or may not punch a wall.That is, the impulse is there, but it would be an overreaction.It's that anger precipitated by the brain's exposure to steroids and anabolics," explained Wadler.Since the 1970s, when steroids became popular among bodybuilders, researchers have been concerned about how much the drug can affect a person's behavior and mood.When tested on animals, about 80% of the research indicated that the drug made them extremely aggressive.But it took a while for it to be declared that the same thing happened to humans who injected high doses, causing the 'Roid Rage' phenomenon.(Source: Muscle & Strength/Reproduction)Rich Melloni, a PhD psychologist at Northeeastern University, noted that the link between normal variations in testosterone level and aggression is weak, but there is a strong correlation when considering the abnormally high levels of testosterone achieved by professional steroid users.This makes it clear that superphysiological doses stimulate anger.In an article published in 2000, Harvard Medical School psychiatrist Harrison Pope pointed out that high concentrations of the drug can increase aggression even in men who are not bodybuilders, also showing that individual reactions can vary dramatically, even under conditions tightly controlled experiments.Pope said anabolic reactions cannot be explained by premorbid personality traits or expectancy factors.That is, there must be an actual biological phenomenon that occurs in some people that triggers rabies, but it is not possible to know in which people.He points out that most men who take the drug have no problems, but a person can suddenly have a very severe reaction.To submit a suggestion, you must log in with your Facebook