Psychopaths

[Jib]

BODY PLEASURE AND THE ORIGINS OF VIOLENCE
By James W. Prescott

http://www.violence.de/prescott/bulletin/article.html

 

[Ben]

BODY PLEASURE AND THE ORIGINS OF VIOLENCE
By James W. Prescott

http://www.violence.de/prescott/bulletin/article.html

I agree with this. Too bad it's not an American site. I guess that's to be expected, since the US isn't very open to sexuality.

 

[Parsifal]

What about people that can't stand to be touched by others? Doesn't touching and empathy increase oxytocin hormone which is bad for Peat?

 

[Parsifal]

Maybe psychopaths have a problem with oxytocin or mirror neurons?

 

[Luann]

Then I asked him if by maternal neglect he referred to something like not touching or talking the baby and he replied:

Yes, touching, talking, looking.
Touching: The Human Significance of the Skin

Some research has shown that the gender of the parent that abused / left the child isn't as big a deal as whether it was the same gender parent. Seems that neglect from the same gender parent is far worse for the child.

 

[johnwester130]

Isn't Mexican culture the most psychopathic ?

 

[DaveFoster]

Ray Peat:
I think it's usually a combination of some neurological-endocrine damage and the effect of parental, especially maternal, neglect. I think there's an interaction of learning with brain development, and like language learning after puberty, it's probably very hard for an adult to learn to have empathy. Cultures can have attitudes that resemble psychopathy, attitudes about how people should interact, degrees of xenophobia, for example.

 

[Luann]

BODY PLEASURE AND THE ORIGINS OF VIOLENCE
By James W. Prescott

Article: Body Pleasure and the Origins of Violence

Loved this.
also makes me think of Charles Konia's criticism of the separating of mom and child right after birth.

 

[equipoise]

Psychopaths actually have a degree of empathy and understand a lot of what is going on but choose to ignore it. For instance one might look them the wrong way and they will easily get rid of them, they know its "morally" wrong thing to do but they simply dont care. Shrunken frontal lobe

 

[PolishSun]

As I read somewhere, that there are people who feel too much and people who feel to little. Narcissists are the first one, psychopaths are the rest. They have different parts of the brain damaged which correspond with hyperemotionality/ hypoemotionality or those are not developed properly.

 

[equipoise]

As I read somewhere, that there are people who feel too much and people who feel to little. Narcissists are the first one, psychopaths are the rest. They have different parts of the brain damaged which correspond with hyperemotionality/ hypoemotionality or those are not developed properly.

Nah you are thinking of borderline personality disorder. BPD. Narcissists definitely lack empatht aswell

 

[PolishSun]

Nah you are thinking of borderline personality disorder. BPD. Narcissists definitely lack empatht aswell

They lack empathy, because they have too strong feelings about themselves. Of course, I do not know for sure. I understand, that some narcissists have strong overwhelming feelings which they manage to control very well, therefore it looks like they hardly have any feelings. Bipolars look like ones who have strong feelings but they do not manage to control them.

 

[Ignoramus]

I think I was 'almost' a psychopath when I was 20 or so. I was on finasteride, and I think I experienced some maternal neglect during my early development. I think general loneliness ****88 me too. My brain came up with the equation that if I became really successful then I could have friends and intimacy, so I prioritised the pursuit of success above all else. The ironic thing is that 'success' is revolting to most healthy people, and of course you end up attracting other psychopaths and create an echo chamber of depravity. It's tricky, because when you're in that perspective you cannot be convinced that the mechanism is maladaptive; it feels like a 'superpower' to not consider morality, etc.

I had a drug trip in which my perspective was completely upended, and I somehow managed to escape into a better mental state. Now reality feels more subtle, magical, fascinating and 'whole', whereas my recollection of how I used to feel was more like an oscillating rollercoaster of grandiosity and abject emptiness. I think I may have had NPD; I'm not sure.

 

[equipoise]

I think I was 'almost' a psychopath when I was 20 or so. I was on finasteride, and I think I experienced some maternal neglect during my early development. I think general loneliness ****88 me too. My brain came up with the equation that if I became really successful then I could have friends and intimacy, so I prioritised the pursuit of success above all else. The ironic thing is that 'success' is revolting to most healthy people, and of course you end up attracting other psychopaths and create an echo chamber of depravity. It's tricky, because when you're in that perspective you cannot be convinced that the mechanism is maladaptive; it feels like a 'superpower' to not consider morality, etc.

I had a drug trip in which my perspective was completely upended, and I somehow managed to escape into a better mental state. Now reality feels more subtle, magical, fascinating and 'whole', whereas my recollection of how I used to feel was more like an oscillating rollercoaster of grandiosity and abject emptiness. I think I may have had NPD; I'm not sure.

High serotonin can make you feel that way, a good acid trip can completely rewire some pathways permanently, I am pretty sure.

Nowadays whenever I meet someone interesting, with this childlike explorative energy, eager to create and not shatter what others have built upon, these individuals, more often than not, dabbled in psychedelia.

"The good humour man he sees everything he tries to"

 

[TopG]

1. abuse during childhood
2. dysfunctional family
3. loneliness


All these factors combined.