Psychopaths show overactive dopamine systems
PDF Why do psychopaths go after what they want regardless of the negative consequences they may experience? According to the journal Nature Neuroscience, the answer may be chemical—an overactive dopamine reward system.
Read Driven toward reward without regard for consequence on Time.com.
Read the scientific study, Mesolimbic dopamine reward system hypersensitivity in individuals with psychopathic traits, in Nature Neuroscience.
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one_step_at_a_time says:
…because she’s compassionate and doesn’t like to see *dumb animals* suffer.
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one_step_at_a_time says:
au contraire mon chere
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hens says:
yes please take me out of my misery ifn i ever do that..
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hens says:
and ricky martin came out that he is gay surprise surprise surprise not
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one_step_at_a_time says:
hmmm, oxy and EB have disappeared…lock your doors!
how are things going there today hens?
been a long day here – 1:30 now, will need to pack it in soon.
A job i had been talking to someone about vaporized – a good thing as it would have been quite horrid me thinks, but things are going to get real ugly here soon.
am on the trail of some resources for PTSD. this is good. and i have fullfilled some volunteer obligations that i thought i might not be able to. i am not getting a lot done everyday, but some, and sometimes more than i expect to, given how uneven i am right now.
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one_step_at_a_time says:
….now? he came out now? not like, in the 90′s?
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one_step_at_a_time says:
‘He said: “To keep living as I did up until today would be to indirectly diminish the glow that my kids where born with. Enough is enough. This has to change.”‘
well, i like the quote – but his assertion that’ “I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man.’ is a bit odd.
as opposed to an unfortunate homosexual man, or to a fortunate heterosexual man? i am going to believe that something got lost in the translation
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hens says:
i hope you get some support for ptsd one – i really think it takes a bout 2 and half years to recover from a sociopath, i have read that in several diiferent places – i am so far on the other side of it 2 years but still think i have more to process so maybe the next 6 months will bring that closure – funny thing happened tonite – I heard my first whiporwill (bird) they have always brought me such calm and connection with the universe and nature a sign that life goes on i felt joy when i heard it – when my boys were little we would listen for them at nite, one of my boys called them whirlwhips – anyway i told then when i am gone every time they here the first whiporwhil in the spring it is me saying hello…
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one_step_at_a_time says:
nice. a gift to your sons.
i have a little woods just across the road from me. it’s a magical place, one of my favourite woods. someone carved a chair out of a stump (probably for their kids
). I went out and sat in it for a long time today. The birds are so happy that it is spring…i closed my eyes and swooned to the sound of them.
okay the 2.5 year timeline is good t know about. i am okay with that – i just need to be able to function enough to work. beyond that, healing can have most of my time and energy.
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ErinBrock says:
Ha…what….
**sent via blackberry from Oklahoma
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one_step_at_a_time says:
ha…what, what?
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one_step_at_a_time says:
snort!
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hens says:
its something that has to be processed, studied – the encounter with him really upset my whole unorganized apple cart – it has not been easy – i am different, someways better someways not – there was a purpose for it because i have let go of alot of hurt that i wasnt dealing with.. I have issues that i dont discuss here, issues that cant be solved only lived with the best i can -but i have found a sense of peace with who I am – my confidence is better – but i will never pursue an intimate relationship agin , he changed that in me , maybe for the better – i just dont/cant go there and that is ok really it is..
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ErinBrock says:
I think I agree with the 2.5 years….
I feel differntly every day…..
I don’t talk about him to my daily gf’s….and I think it was a good conscious decision….or i’d run em off.
I really do beleive there is a statute of limitations with ‘compassion’ on this subject.
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one_step_at_a_time says:
i posted this earlier today: ‘sooner or later things will become more balanced in my life, but right now i feel like a world wobbling on it’s axis – an axis that has been disoriented. centre is off. reverb is powerful. ‘
i know i am still in the panic state – and am coming out of it slowly. i look forward to coming to processing and studying more thoughtfully. i need to get back to workig with the book the betrayal bond – it somehow both contains this mess and reveals it.
i had some peace, pretty much for the first time, jst before i met the N ex and then the spath. I want something even bigger now. deeper, more durable: heart wood.
oh,and it is the sapwood season. sitting in the woods today – all the trees look like sensual and sexual beings to me. if it weren’t such a public place, perhaps i would get close to one of them.
it does push us – i feel pushed to the wall – i must come out bigger and better, and i suspect vastly different.
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hens says:
going to bed friends thanx for putting up with my sillyness happy april fools day to all
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one_step_at_a_time says:
having trouble with my internet connection the last couple of days – darned thing drops almost every time i post. ergh. but a minor inconvenience…but one i PAY for. :l
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one_step_at_a_time says:
goodnight to you to hens and EB – am very tired…so late here. sleep tight!
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hens says:
thats a great post onesteppers – I have watched you grow sense you came here – you are making progress – if i can give any advice dont try to rush it – thats what i wanted, was for it be done with and over i was tired of him in my head – but what i have surmized is this – he wasnt a boyfriend gone bad – he wasnt someone that it just didnt work out with – he was evil he is a sociopath and that is a fuckin huge thing to overcome and only the ones that have been down that road understand the damage.
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ErinBrock says:
I will second that….for both of you!!!!
I’ve seen it before my eyes………..
COOL!!!
Me….I just get meaner!
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one_step_at_a_time says:
hens – i feel this way , too – don’t rush it. i want to go deep in me heart to understand. i have to manage the anxiety and PTSD, because i must work (and find work) and because i don’t want this to cause me to go into a negative spiral. i think these things are big challenge for me.
i am walking with my own shadow now. and some part of me feels deeply nourished by that, and i suspect it feels a bit safer to not have anyone in very close, nor expect it.
it is huge. i wish my friends could understand. i don’t try to make them – but i did recently connect lf to my facebook page, so they get to see the article posts at lovefraud facebook. kinda like leaving pamphlets around the house.
and EB – you’re an effing marshmallow.
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