Gailin of Pergammon wrote a book about mental illness called, On Passions and Errors of the Soul. Gailin's most striking case study for anger is that of the Emperor Hadrian who had a violent temper tantrum one day because an unlucky slave did something to annoy him. The consequences of anger are often very destructive; sometimes they cannot be reversed. Even the most powerful man in the world may be unable to under harm he's done in a fit of violent rage.

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