Hi Reveurgam!
Thanks for sharing your video about psychopathy.
And you explained it thoroughly with some examples and ideas to look into.
By the way what move you to talk about psychopathy?
I guess addiction is one the causes of psychopathy. When a person is addicted to something, he/she tries to think and find reasons to support and continue the addiction by finding the benefits or advantages of such addiction.
If the addiction becomes extreme in some point, that's the time an addict becomes a psychopath.
I'm glad you found my talk useful. Thank you!
This is a theory I developed a few years ago, but was unable to pursue because my wife was dying. Now seemed to be a good time, given that 3 psychologists and a couple of therapists had said it had merit.
Addiction isn't a cause of psychopathy but is sometimes observed in psychopaths because of their desire for stimulation to fill up that "hole" I talked about, which they call boredom. High-risk behavior is, as I understand it, common amongst psychopaths, but those with sufficient self-restraint avoid those behaviors that would land them in jail or, at least, those that are difficult to identify and prosecute (such as emotionally abusing/manipulating subordinates in business). In my research, I came across enough info to show that a lot of psychopaths are in the business world, and some are even leaders. One research suggests that while they can lead, businesses led by them tend to perform worse than the leaders who have the best combination of traits.
It is, I suppose, possible for certain types of drugs to potentially damage the relevant parts of the brain, but I've not heard of that. Have you?
Thank you!
https://steemit.com/psychology/@reveurgam/psychopathy-drugs-and-addiction
I don't know if its proven with real facts and evidence that certain drugs could potentially damage some relevant parts of the brain, maybe there is.
I guess the effects of using those drugs would affect the user that could eventually harm other people to some extent. Maybe this is the reason why our government here prohibits some drugs like, shabu, cocaine, marijuana, etc.
Where are you? Indonesia?
My understanding of the criminal behavior of addicts stems from the over-riding need to get high. If they don't have the money to get their drug of choice, then they become increasingly willing to engage in criminal behavior to get money to buy more drugs. This can also, over time, cause escalation in the level of criminal behavior and violence.
This is paralleled in other aspects of the criminal world. An initiate into a gang may be asked to commit minor crimes at the start but, over time, the seriousness of crimes required escalates, as does the level of violence. A fairly strongly moral person can experience a degradation of their behavior through repeated exposure to, and participation in, criminal behavior and violence, one day ending up an extremely ruthless criminal. The progression can be tracked. Breaking down norms and values takes time for most people, with many slowly making compromises in their integrity.
This has the side effect of guilt, leading to self-loathing, self-hate and self-punishment, which often affects people nearby, especially loved ones, who may become victims.
This doesn't usually apply to psychopaths, who are emotionally divorced and tend to look at morality and religion with disdain due to the hypocrisy and lack of logic. They can engage in any level of criminal behavior and violence which they are inclined to, as long as their fear of getting caught and send to prison isn't enough of a disincentive...
I'm from the Philippines.
Thanks for the insights.
Sorry for including drug addicts in my comments, its out of the context of psychopathy in your post.
I'm just concern of the people here especially those drug addicts who could not change themselves and don't want to surrender, instead they fight against the police authority and and thousands of them were already killed.
Before our President became a president, during election, he promised to stop drugs in the country for 6 months. Now, the President is more than 2 years already in the office but drugs are still there, pushers and users are still there. I guess tens of thousands are already in the rehabilitation center who surrender.
There is no reason to apologize. I mentioned addiction in my video and, judging by your description, it makes sense why you wrote that addiction causes psychopathy. Unfortunately, addiction is a serious problem and a candidate promising to deal with it is just a campaign promise that is very hard to keep. In my area, heroine is a serious problem.
I'm told a great (great?) uncle of mine married and had kids in the Fils, so there are relatives of mine there, somewhere.
Salamat po!
Walang anuman!
There are actually many foreigners here and mostly I guess are Americans.
I'm glad you have relatives here in our country.
Nice meeting you here on Steemit!
By the way what's your name @reveurgam if you don't mind?
Seek and you shall find. ;)
Ronel, I looked again at the comments, and I have given some more thought to your comment about addiction. In theory, certain chemicals might induce an alteration of the mental state, just as strong magnets can alter the way the brain works, but I don't think there are many (if any) street drugs that can do this. That said, I am reminded of reports in recent years of people suddenly attacking homeless people or neighbors and consuming parts of their bodies while alive, or murdering them. Supposedly, this was after using certain illicit substances, and may give credence to your theory, although I would suspect it was a temporary effect. That said, I still don't think ADDICTION causes psychopathy, but certain chemicals may.
Good point grand dad!
I guess we have to moderate everything and anything to avoid side effects?
But moderation or balance is hard to achieve but at least we're reminded when sometimes we tend to do things excessively, then we could easily shift or turn to other things instead of doing things we mostly love excessively especially those that feeds our appetite and desires or passion or pleasure doing them over and over again would lead to addiction.
Moderation is a good idea in most things, I agree, whereas following our passions and appetites may lead to destructive behaviors/consequences...
Yep, yep!
I don't know if I'm doing the moderation thing when I no longer eat breakfast for almost 2 years now.
Ever since I felt strong and healthy compared to those times when I was eating breakfast my almost whole life.
The difference may be because you don't eat breakfast, but it could be something else. For example, if you were eating a lot of wheat-based cereal, and have gluten intolerance and/or lactose intolerance for breakfast, stopping would almost certainly make you feel better.
I don't think stopping counts as moderation, though. :)
Yeah you're right. But I guess for now I feel better eating no breakfast. I don't know where this thing will go. Around 7 pm up to 12 noon no foods and no drinks at all, its 17 hours straight fasting daily for almost 2 years. Am I the only one doing this? I guess there are some. And I break the rules of the food industries slogan 'breakfast is the most important meal of the day'.
I sometimes don't eat breakfast. I find that if I make sure to stop eating 2-4 hours before bedtime, I don't usually need breakfast. However, if I don't, I will feel nauseous in the morning and need food to fix that. I assume that's because I went to bed while processing the food, and that resulted in blood glucose levels that were too high, but I'm not sure.