tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post3087113854635914605..comments2024-03-28T00:33:57.308-07:00Comments on Sociopath World: Dopamine: treatment for sociopathy?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post-36896701659402748892014-12-26T18:04:38.724-08:002014-12-26T18:04:38.724-08:00This sounds a bit like hypomania. Ecstacy, beauty...This sounds a bit like hypomania. Ecstacy, beauty, getting high on color and drunk on sound- I feel ya. I'm well acquainted with it, and maybe a little bit addicted. Perhaps I'll take a cue from you and learn to induce it myself.Dariennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post-57506683287702054062014-12-26T17:53:39.844-08:002014-12-26T17:53:39.844-08:00Those last two sentences sound like my life.Those last two sentences sound like my life.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post-4162780202280908492014-08-13T12:14:15.552-07:002014-08-13T12:14:15.552-07:00http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dopamine_beta_hydroxy...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dopamine_beta_hydroxylase_deficiencyJeff Caudlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05340789455737770515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post-41067516788774695852014-08-13T12:13:10.679-07:002014-08-13T12:13:10.679-07:00First of all...dopamine beta hydroxylase is an enz...First of all...dopamine beta hydroxylase is an enzyme that BREAKS DOWN dopamine, it doesn't make it. It converts dopamine into norepinephrine. Having lower levels of DBH would increase dopamine in the brain, not decrease it. Conversely higher levels of DBH would have multiple effects on the brain, including a norepinephrine deficiency and an inability to sit still.<br /><br />Here's wikipedia but you can go to pubmed for more in depth information.Jeff Caudlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05340789455737770515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post-32657177160133897092014-01-02T23:46:29.542-08:002014-01-02T23:46:29.542-08:00Who are you to criticize this article? What academ...Who are you to criticize this article? What academic credentials do you possess? Please do share. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02158577557538028429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post-83900176072088321342013-12-06T14:19:22.358-08:002013-12-06T14:19:22.358-08:00Because dopamine is the main chemical involved in ...Because dopamine is the main chemical involved in emotion, and particularly, it stimulates empathy in combination with serotonin, one would have to say Psychopaths have low levels of BOTH dopamine and Serotonin. It makes perfect sense. But there are spiritual influences, dietary influences and drug abuse problems that all play a role. Stimulant addicts, meth addicts, tend to have antisocial traits because of the wearout on their adrenals. The psychopaths that have high dopamine, many of them (as opposed to low dopamine psychopaths), tend to be what we call "charismatic sociopaths", have high levels of energy and persuasion, and can ascend to a semi-hitler magnetism easier. <br /><br />However dopamine is also placed differently in the brains of psychopaths, it is often VERY low in the amygdala, but Very High in say the mesolimbic and striatum area. <br />It is often low in the hypothalamus (except in the case of sexual psychopaths and rapists, where it would be high).Jason Malek Russohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13484819788942297056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post-16723386263493592032013-07-31T20:18:42.452-07:002013-07-31T20:18:42.452-07:00I found this blog earlier today while looking for ...I found this blog earlier today while looking for like minded people who are not afraid of being exactly who they are. ☆Thank U☆<br /><br />I am a Diagnosed Sociopath...& I agree with "Bob" about the Adderall to a certain degree. <br />I was diagnosed with Narcolepsy in 2008, & have been taking Adderall+other crap to continue to drive. However I noticed that it does not affect me as it seems to do the other people around me. It only keeps me awake, alert & very talkative. The only bad side effect is it lasts too freaking long. <br /><br />My Vicious cycle....Insomnia & Hypersomnia Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05088820449168880817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post-33320182209069649102013-02-20T00:00:46.914-08:002013-02-20T00:00:46.914-08:00Every relationship in my life gives me value. Onc...Every relationship in my life gives me value. Once that person no longer provides value to me, then I move on. I care about people, but only as long as they provide me with something I desire. Every action I have is for a calculated reason. This is all true, most of the time, however not always. I have noticed recently that when I take Adderall(Dopamine enhancing drug) I begin to care for people, and actually do things for them that isn't fully calculated. I feel happy being with others not because of a calculated gain I could get from the interaction, but rather just being with person. I feel sadness, remorse, grief for past events in my life. But this is all temporary with the passing of the drug. I will feel just as empty as before, uncaring, calculative, and incredibly bored. I'm not saying I'm a sociopath, nor am I saying Dopamine has any affect on sociopath, it's just my two cents.<br /><br />-Call me bobAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post-4674835574578227032013-01-26T22:27:54.966-08:002013-01-26T22:27:54.966-08:00I lived the majority of my life with behavior and ...I lived the majority of my life with behavior and lack of emotion as described for a sociopath. One day I was given methamphetamine, I said why not... and something happened.... I felt things.... happiness and a mixed bag of positive emotions I never experienced EVER IN MY LIFE. Over time with continued use (not abuse) I felt compassion and remorse and even empathy for the first time ever in my life.... So there is actually something to the idea about amphetamines helping sociopaths, because I was definitely a sociopath.... but I am being rehabilitated.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06006765671894653339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post-5384553902048616462012-08-24T18:09:11.896-07:002012-08-24T18:09:11.896-07:00I prefer to do drugs by myself. Being in an alter...I prefer to do drugs by myself. Being in an altered state around other people makes me very uncomfortable. Others are unpredictable and I don't trust them to know what's best for me (mostly because I have given people chances and it has usually ended with me vomiting for hours). My experience with mushrooms resulted in a lack of a high. I am sensitive to Marijuana. I buy the best and barely have to smoke any of it to get a solid, comfortable high. I took LSD once. I was alone in my room and had a wonderful time. I stared at myself in the mirror for hours and couldn't stop falling in love with my reflection. I will admit to attempting to make out with myself. If I had been with another person that night, I am positive that I would have had a bad trip. I have also taken MDMA on 7 different occasions in an attempt to feel something similar to empathy. It didn't seem to work that way for me but sex was amazing. After all my drug experimentation I have figured out that if I take a drug alone, allow myself to come all the way up to the high, and get in a comfortable mental state, I can then enjoy tripping dick around other people. I just need to be by myself to start. Be careful with Salvia, if you are more comfortable alone, make sure there is no one home and that you wont be expecting anyone for at least an hour. I ended up hallucinating so bad that I accepted that there wasn't a reality and that I should stop fighting and curl up and die in a spinning kaleidoscope of color. Then I came down and my clothes became hot and scratchy. Mnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post-41924114506254257232012-04-10T20:08:00.925-07:002012-04-10T20:08:00.925-07:00Comparing Mushrooms and Marijuana are like compari...Comparing Mushrooms and Marijuana are like comparing Apples to a nice juicy steak. I've tripped a few times on mushrooms.Also I smoke cannabis regularly. Being high and tripping are completely different. Sorry Michael, But I think you're getting ripped off on your shrooms.Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post-53983562222991867742012-04-06T03:06:11.489-07:002012-04-06T03:06:11.489-07:00I remember when a "less trippy" form of ...I remember when a "less trippy" form of psychedelic was first introduced. The undervalued research that Timothy Leary and others did in LSD therapy was stymied when the government made LSD illegal. <br />MDMA was constructed to give the taker all of the positive elements of an acid trip without all the hallucinations and desire to throw one's self out of windows. It was called "the Empathy Drug". Sadly, a lot of shallow Hipsters found it to be very neato for raves and got it made illegal too. <br />Thanks hipsters! <br />The very fact that psychedelics can take a person to a place in their brain where they have never been before - and that place is a higher self that experiences empathy would seem to make it an invaluable resource in treating Sociopaths. <br />Do you suppose this may be the main reason these things are illegal?<br />Why is Marijuana a section 1 drug? Oh yeah, it can calm people with anger issues.<br />Kinda seems like the government WANTS people to remain fucked up - don't it? <br />Alcohol, the biggest mind fuck out there remains legal.<br />Just doesn't make much sense.<br />I know that the Banksters look for employees with Asperger syndrome because they are so much better at doing things like foreclosing on people. <br />OK better remove my foil hat! Me thinks I see conspiracies!<br /><br />BTW I love this blog and all who contribute to it - even if you can't feel it!<br />oxoxoSusanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13863234419599913942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post-78645571081776091222012-04-06T02:47:32.887-07:002012-04-06T02:47:32.887-07:00As a mother of a kid on the autistic spectrum who ...As a mother of a kid on the autistic spectrum who now sees her son's behavior as a manifestation of sociopathy I applaud this blogger for being the first person I have witnessed putting the two together. I am new here but must contribute my 2 cents to Anonymous. "Choose" to be sociopaths? Yes it is very easy to make that assumption. My son even claims that he can behave "better" but just doesn't. What is choice? We all choose. An alcoholic or compulsive over eater CHOOSES to consume what is ruining their life. Does that imply they have control over this "choice"? This is an extremely dark grey area, one that I would venture to say that you offer no illumination for. So take your judgemental attitude and put it in an even darker area - one where the Sun never shines.Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13863234419599913942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post-15991382106136322892012-04-03T03:32:58.421-07:002012-04-03T03:32:58.421-07:00AhahahaAhahahaStone Hawknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post-68463616262703280812012-04-03T03:32:14.195-07:002012-04-03T03:32:14.195-07:00Choose to be sociopaths? Your obviously an imbecil...Choose to be sociopaths? Your obviously an imbecile. If you do some research at all you will find that sociopaths actually anatomical differences in their brain.<br />Sociopaths are not autistic? Who are you to make that call? There have been multiple link found imbetween the two disorders. Your all extremely ignorant people who should not be allowed to procreate.Stone Hawknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post-61790145964393884292012-03-31T00:53:57.471-07:002012-03-31T00:53:57.471-07:00Actually I agree with this because I am on adderal...Actually I agree with this because I am on adderall and for the longest time i thought I had ADHD, then found studies of aspergers syndrome and thought hey that kinda sounds like me except for the high empathy levels. So I had a hypothesis. Since I remembered not taking adderall and having a social life, but with taking adderall I do not, went off it for about three weeks. wrote down some notes of my increased social interaction and charm and willing to manipulate to my means, went back on adderall, became well focused without the bursting of crimes, but became really paranoid. kind of developed a sense of fear. So there is my input and facts about that. you can say it helps sociopaths, but makes them paranoid as shit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post-9566626571532289412012-03-25T22:33:53.454-07:002012-03-25T22:33:53.454-07:00Great article, I'll be sure to share this. Aut...Great article, I'll be sure to share this. Autism is something that everybody should be aware of. Thank you very much.symptoms of autismhttp://www.autism-antidepressants.com/Signs-Of-Autismnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post-70664256338527680152012-03-23T13:10:37.115-07:002012-03-23T13:10:37.115-07:00No, cognitive empathy, not "cognitive power&q...No, cognitive empathy, not "cognitive power"....the ability to guess what others are thinking .Obviously we have high cognitive "power"...duh.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post-1973750454645763342012-03-17T23:57:15.418-07:002012-03-17T23:57:15.418-07:00Sociopaths are not autistic.Sociopaths are not autistic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post-362513833782928862012-03-17T23:55:14.444-07:002012-03-17T23:55:14.444-07:00With some exceptions, most Aspergian individuals d...With some exceptions, most Aspergian individuals don't have a low cognitive power, which is not fully related to emotional empathy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post-12223029414600436572012-03-17T03:09:40.852-07:002012-03-17T03:09:40.852-07:00Addition to my comment above : autistics may have ...Addition to my comment above : autistics may have low cognitive empathy , but it is what they spend their whole life training and developing , while trying to numb their emotional responses, so as to avoid emotional overload leading to meltdowns , which they hate (in a literal sense). Constant training and forcing your thoughts in the direction of "what others are thinking and how they might react to whatever I'll do" , not to manipulate them per se, simply to avoid being hated and abused , might activate the same neo cortex zones you guys use, making our dopamine production to increase . This is just a silly theory obviously , I have no study to back it up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post-15681263865171954812012-03-16T13:08:43.347-07:002012-03-16T13:08:43.347-07:00Reading the beginning of the article , i immediate...Reading the beginning of the article , i immediately thought "wait, that guy isn't a sociopath , he's autistic !" I'm autistic and immediately recognized the "high on beauty " you speak of. then you mentioned autism . I don't think sociopathy is on the autism spectrum . I think, if humanity has an empathy spectrum , it goes like this : autism (very high emotional empathy , very low cognitive empathy ) perfect neurotypicals( balanced blandness ) and sociopath on the other end (very high cognitive empathy , very low emotional empathy ) <br />If we do share excessive dopamine production, it might be from brain activity . neurotypicals, relying on pure instinct and never using their brains, might produce less, as a consequence , not as a "cause" for a condition or lackthereof.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post-18626294677732055702012-03-11T22:50:06.536-07:002012-03-11T22:50:06.536-07:00Did you win?Did you win?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post-89751693545617550532012-03-11T22:28:33.122-07:002012-03-11T22:28:33.122-07:00I don't have complete long, black depressions ...I don't have complete long, black depressions anymore. I am medicated. My mixed states are better when I can be creative. It is a bit hard for me to respond to this. I don't think I know myself and this subject well enough, and every episode is different. But I am glad you asked. Maybe now I will make creativity another coping tool :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-628748600098131100.post-60496708322358758152012-03-11T19:13:08.825-07:002012-03-11T19:13:08.825-07:00when it's actually more like a reflex, or inst...when it's actually more like a reflex, or instinct.Zoenoreply@blogger.com