An even worse case of road-rage

If there were no speed limit here in Spain there would be absolute mayhem on the roads. The situation is bad enough as it is, because many (mostly male) drivers seem to take very little notice of speed limits or driving laws in general. Please don't let such idiots (as myself) affect your stomach, however. We're not worth it! Best Wishes, Robert.

Contrary to male opinion, women are much safer drivers than men because they don't suffer from macho tendencies to want to rule the highway and show off the power of there big, shiny car (which some of us seem to think is an extension of our sexual organ). I wish you the best with your driving lessons. I hope you will be taught all the right signals, including those necessary in order to express road-rage... Best Wishes, Robert.

Many thanks for your fascinating comment and story. Psychiatrists and nurses in mental hospitals are only human and they can make mistakes. That's something which both you and I seem to have experienced. The problem with psychiatrists, however, is that they think they know more than they really do. As I understand it, psychiatry is a relatively young science. It only appears to have begun in earnest with Sigmund Freud at the end of the nineteenth century, whereas medicine for the rest of the human body had already been around for centuries by then. And our minds and personalities are clearly extremely complicated and therefore hard to fathom. (I still don't understand my wife, for example, even after thirty years of daily observation - but well, she's a woman.) I recently watched a B.B.C. documentary in which three eminent psychiatrists observed the behaviour of ten people for three days. They were told that five people were sane and five had a form of mental illness. When the three days were up they pronounced their verdict and made several mistakes about who was ill and who wasn't. So perhaps psychiatrists in general should be more careful about dishing out drugs with strong side effects, especially as they don't usually bother to warn their patients about potential problems. I'm sorry to hear about the terrible accident in your family. The break up of your marriage so soon after that tragedy must have made things much worse. Best wishes, Robert.