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Is it genetics, or is sociopathy somehow connected to drug use
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<blockquote data-quote="Scent of Cedar *" data-source="post: 640829" data-attributes="member: 17461"><p>As I read through the threads this morning, I was struck by how many of us feel betrayed by the change in our children. How can it be that, though the child we birthed is still living, so many of us feel that the person he or she would grow to be is gone? The rages, the stealing, the lost potential ~ all the things we associate with drug use...maybe this is not genetics, at all. Maybe, just as marijuana is ten thousand times more potent now than it was 40 years ago, today's street drugs are destroying whatever part of the brain is responsible for empathy?</p><p></p><p>It would make sense that this could be so. If we could take something to erase shame, if we therefore seldom felt shame, it would make sense that we would lose our sense of empathy. It would make sense that we would lie, steal, do anything at all, to get that thing that kept us from feeling badly about ourselves.</p><p></p><p>Could sociopathy be so prevalent, or is it that drug use is creating sociopathy? And could it be the negation of shame that is at the root of the addictive nature of all this stuff?</p><p></p><p>Cedar</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scent of Cedar *, post: 640829, member: 17461"] As I read through the threads this morning, I was struck by how many of us feel betrayed by the change in our children. How can it be that, though the child we birthed is still living, so many of us feel that the person he or she would grow to be is gone? The rages, the stealing, the lost potential ~ all the things we associate with drug use...maybe this is not genetics, at all. Maybe, just as marijuana is ten thousand times more potent now than it was 40 years ago, today's street drugs are destroying whatever part of the brain is responsible for empathy? It would make sense that this could be so. If we could take something to erase shame, if we therefore seldom felt shame, it would make sense that we would lose our sense of empathy. It would make sense that we would lie, steal, do anything at all, to get that thing that kept us from feeling badly about ourselves. Could sociopathy be so prevalent, or is it that drug use is creating sociopathy? And could it be the negation of shame that is at the root of the addictive nature of all this stuff? Cedar [/QUOTE]
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