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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: 640842" data-attributes="member: 17461"><p>I think my mom may be a sociopath. There is an almost insectile quality to the way she sees people. Like they are interchangeable pieces on a chessboard. So, it could be genetic.</p><p></p><p>Would I know if I were a sociopath, I wonder?</p><p></p><p>That is a scary thought.</p><p></p><p>Here is an interesting thing, though: husband's mother had changed so much over the years as to be almost unrecognizable. From a most giving, empathic woman to someone self-centered, accusatory, suspicious, entitled, rageful. We all thought it must be her pain, or her age. Toward the end of summer, we learned that what it was was addiction to pain medicine. More and more medicine prescribed over the years until there was no pain relief, until her body no longer worked the way it should...and still, she was in unremitting pain. </p><p></p><p>She was doctor seeking and demanding emergency room visits, always complaining of intractable pain.</p><p></p><p>She is in her eighties.</p><p></p><p>When the pain medications were stopped? She became her old, empathic, generous, caring self.</p><p>(After the withdrawal, which was terrible, but which she approached with great courage.)</p><p></p><p>This experience too has me wondering about just what it is drugs, legal or street drugs (maybe especially street drugs) are really doing to our children's brains.</p><p></p><p>The kids all seem mean in the same way. It could be my son saying some of the horrible things I see other moms post about their children. </p><p></p><p>Again, difficult child daughter, who may always have had to struggle harder for normal, does not say or expect or resent things the way difficult child son does. I am trying to think about how she is when she is using. She certainly becomes self centered.... I think the difference may be that difficult child daughter crashes so fast that the legal system steps in and then, she stops using. difficult child son has actually used longer, and has probably used without stopping.</p><p></p><p>Maybe that is the difference?</p><p></p><p>Cedar</p><p></p><p>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scent of Cedar *, post: 640842, member: 17461"] I think my mom may be a sociopath. There is an almost insectile quality to the way she sees people. Like they are interchangeable pieces on a chessboard. So, it could be genetic. Would I know if I were a sociopath, I wonder? That is a scary thought. Here is an interesting thing, though: husband's mother had changed so much over the years as to be almost unrecognizable. From a most giving, empathic woman to someone self-centered, accusatory, suspicious, entitled, rageful. We all thought it must be her pain, or her age. Toward the end of summer, we learned that what it was was addiction to pain medicine. More and more medicine prescribed over the years until there was no pain relief, until her body no longer worked the way it should...and still, she was in unremitting pain. She was doctor seeking and demanding emergency room visits, always complaining of intractable pain. She is in her eighties. When the pain medications were stopped? She became her old, empathic, generous, caring self. (After the withdrawal, which was terrible, but which she approached with great courage.) This experience too has me wondering about just what it is drugs, legal or street drugs (maybe especially street drugs) are really doing to our children's brains. The kids all seem mean in the same way. It could be my son saying some of the horrible things I see other moms post about their children. Again, difficult child daughter, who may always have had to struggle harder for normal, does not say or expect or resent things the way difficult child son does. I am trying to think about how she is when she is using. She certainly becomes self centered.... I think the difference may be that difficult child daughter crashes so fast that the legal system steps in and then, she stops using. difficult child son has actually used longer, and has probably used without stopping. Maybe that is the difference? Cedar . [/QUOTE]
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