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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 664489" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>I've never known a psychopath that I was aware of, although I have known narcissistic (they are not far from each other). My family is a bunch of narcs and borderlines, I think, or just plain mean-spirited people and I'm going to say my brother is one who is exempt. But otherwise.. I did not take well to strangers who were mean and did not date men who were narcs or borderlines. I don't know why. I was VERY vulnerable, but very hyper-vigilant to anyone who may want to use me in a dangerous way. That saved me.I *did* get drawn and draw some very strange woman frineds...lol. But they never lasted long and I didn't get to the point where they used me. It was mostly family. I lived it enough to recognize what I didn't want around me. About psychopaths though...</p><p></p><p>I saw a documentary on television (a long one) on the differences between psychopaths/antisocials (I think it's the same thing) and normals. Their brains ARE different, whether they started out different or were changed because of bad abuse or the environment).</p><p></p><p>In the documentary, pictures were shown to normals and psychopaths and many were disturbing such as people being killed and I'd rather not give more examples...upsetting...so use your imagination.</p><p></p><p>The normal brains showed a spike in excitement when shown the disturbing pictures indicating a reaction to the horrors before them. The psychopathic brain showed no difference between the picture of a kitten or the pciture of a horror. They simply didn't feel empathy.</p><p></p><p>They also do not show fear. They aren't really afraid of, say, being arrested or spending time with murderers in jail. And they think of people as similar to how we think of refrigerators. Just objects. That is how they can do what Ted Bundy did and eat a good dinner right afterward. They love to play mind games with people. It is one thing they are good for (people to the psychopath) and can pretend to feel normal feelings by watching others. They move on if they are found out.</p><p></p><p>Psychopathy does run in families. Whether it's nature, nurture or both, the verdict is not in yet. I of course always think nature trumps nurture. David Pelzer, from a Child CAlled It, was abused much more than Jeffrey Dahmer who didn't live a particularly abusive life and look who turned out to be the psychopath.</p><p></p><p>We have a long way to go to understand the workings of the human brain, but I love studying behaviors.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 664489, member: 1550"] I've never known a psychopath that I was aware of, although I have known narcissistic (they are not far from each other). My family is a bunch of narcs and borderlines, I think, or just plain mean-spirited people and I'm going to say my brother is one who is exempt. But otherwise.. I did not take well to strangers who were mean and did not date men who were narcs or borderlines. I don't know why. I was VERY vulnerable, but very hyper-vigilant to anyone who may want to use me in a dangerous way. That saved me.I *did* get drawn and draw some very strange woman frineds...lol. But they never lasted long and I didn't get to the point where they used me. It was mostly family. I lived it enough to recognize what I didn't want around me. About psychopaths though... I saw a documentary on television (a long one) on the differences between psychopaths/antisocials (I think it's the same thing) and normals. Their brains ARE different, whether they started out different or were changed because of bad abuse or the environment). In the documentary, pictures were shown to normals and psychopaths and many were disturbing such as people being killed and I'd rather not give more examples...upsetting...so use your imagination. The normal brains showed a spike in excitement when shown the disturbing pictures indicating a reaction to the horrors before them. The psychopathic brain showed no difference between the picture of a kitten or the pciture of a horror. They simply didn't feel empathy. They also do not show fear. They aren't really afraid of, say, being arrested or spending time with murderers in jail. And they think of people as similar to how we think of refrigerators. Just objects. That is how they can do what Ted Bundy did and eat a good dinner right afterward. They love to play mind games with people. It is one thing they are good for (people to the psychopath) and can pretend to feel normal feelings by watching others. They move on if they are found out. Psychopathy does run in families. Whether it's nature, nurture or both, the verdict is not in yet. I of course always think nature trumps nurture. David Pelzer, from a Child CAlled It, was abused much more than Jeffrey Dahmer who didn't live a particularly abusive life and look who turned out to be the psychopath. We have a long way to go to understand the workings of the human brain, but I love studying behaviors. [/QUOTE]
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