This was a pretty entertaining explanation of normal people's natural tendency to not change their mind (hardly ever), even (and particularly) in the face of incontrovertible evidence.
Sunday, October 29, 2017
Sunday, October 8, 2017
Saturday, October 7, 2017
Your Friendly Successful Psychopath
This TED talk is from a reader. It discusses some research about psychopaths and loss aversion (they don't experience it) and suggests some ways that non-psychopaths could learn to be a little more risk seeking themselves.
It also mentions (and this is the first I've heard about this, but does not seem wrong) about how psychopaths have naturally high mindfulness because they are laser focused on whatever task is in front of them.
A third point was regarding how to influence people by doing favors for a person. I'll let you watch the explanation for that one.
It also mentions (and this is the first I've heard about this, but does not seem wrong) about how psychopaths have naturally high mindfulness because they are laser focused on whatever task is in front of them.
A third point was regarding how to influence people by doing favors for a person. I'll let you watch the explanation for that one.
Sunday, October 1, 2017
Dirty John: Seduction and Deception
From a reader:
The LA Times has a front page story along with several other full pages in the first section devoted to a piece they are calling Dirty John, along with a 6 episode podcast. It is a true story that happened over the last few years about a sociopath named John who married a lonely rich woman and then became abusive and went after her daughter. [SPOILER EDITED] It happened last summer and it’s amazing to see how this is playing out as a feature story. Anyway, it should be a pretty good portrait of how an SP gets released from jail, immediately finds, seduces and marries his next victim and deals with her suspicious children. The wife secretly recorded over 100 of their conversations after she finally came to (she ignored thousands of red flags and believed every one of his lies), so the podcast includes many audio clips of him trying to seduce/con her. And she gave the newspaper all their pics. They are publishing a piece of the story every day this week. I’m not sure when the first episode of the podcast starts, maybe tomorrow.
A red flag from the article:
He had thick dark hair and a warm, friendly smile that invited trust. His eyes were hazel-green, with the quality of canceling out the whole of the world that wasn’t her, their current focus.
The LA Times has a front page story along with several other full pages in the first section devoted to a piece they are calling Dirty John, along with a 6 episode podcast. It is a true story that happened over the last few years about a sociopath named John who married a lonely rich woman and then became abusive and went after her daughter. [SPOILER EDITED] It happened last summer and it’s amazing to see how this is playing out as a feature story. Anyway, it should be a pretty good portrait of how an SP gets released from jail, immediately finds, seduces and marries his next victim and deals with her suspicious children. The wife secretly recorded over 100 of their conversations after she finally came to (she ignored thousands of red flags and believed every one of his lies), so the podcast includes many audio clips of him trying to seduce/con her. And she gave the newspaper all their pics. They are publishing a piece of the story every day this week. I’m not sure when the first episode of the podcast starts, maybe tomorrow.
A red flag from the article:
He had thick dark hair and a warm, friendly smile that invited trust. His eyes were hazel-green, with the quality of canceling out the whole of the world that wasn’t her, their current focus.
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Pete Davidson diagnosed with BPD
I just saw this, and good for him for being so open and public about his diagnosis, Saturday Night Live cast member Pete Davidson talks about his struggles with borderline personality disorder. From Marc Maron's podcast, by way of Rolling Stone:
Pete Davidson considers this past year a "fucking nightmare," due in large part to his borderline personality disorder diagnosis back in December 2016.
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"I've been a pothead forever,” the Saturday Night Live star said. "Around October [or] September last year, I started having mental breakdowns where I would, like, freak out and then not remember what happened after. Blind rage. I never really did any other drugs, so I was like, 'I'm gonna try to go to rehab. Maybe that’ll be helpful.'"
Once there, Davidson said he gave up weed, but doctors guessed there might actually be a deeper-seated problem at hand.
After being treated for a bipolar disorder for a while and thinking it was his marijuana use, he finally got a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder:
Three months after going clean, however, Davidson still felt the same, and was formally diagnosed by a psychiatrist as having borderline personality disorder, or BPD. As a result, he is taking a new medication geared toward helping him manage his BPD.
"It is working, slowly but surely," he said. "I've been having a lot of problems. This whole year has been a fucking nightmare. This has been the worst year of my life, getting diagnosed with this and trying to figure out how to learn with this and live with this."
So far reactions to his news appear to be overwhelmingly positive:
So that's good news for reducing stigma for mental illness.
Pete Davidson considers this past year a "fucking nightmare," due in large part to his borderline personality disorder diagnosis back in December 2016.
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"I've been a pothead forever,” the Saturday Night Live star said. "Around October [or] September last year, I started having mental breakdowns where I would, like, freak out and then not remember what happened after. Blind rage. I never really did any other drugs, so I was like, 'I'm gonna try to go to rehab. Maybe that’ll be helpful.'"
Once there, Davidson said he gave up weed, but doctors guessed there might actually be a deeper-seated problem at hand.
After being treated for a bipolar disorder for a while and thinking it was his marijuana use, he finally got a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder:
Three months after going clean, however, Davidson still felt the same, and was formally diagnosed by a psychiatrist as having borderline personality disorder, or BPD. As a result, he is taking a new medication geared toward helping him manage his BPD.
"It is working, slowly but surely," he said. "I've been having a lot of problems. This whole year has been a fucking nightmare. This has been the worst year of my life, getting diagnosed with this and trying to figure out how to learn with this and live with this."
So far reactions to his news appear to be overwhelmingly positive:
Proud of #PeteDavidson for getting Help when he needed it!#MentalHealth has been & will cont being a Huge issue until the Stigma is Gone! pic.twitter.com/nydPqLRz4o— Stacey🦋 (@staceys_75) September 27, 2017
never in a million years would i have thought BPD would be twitters featured moment. thank you #petedavidson https://t.co/gOYgVC5Dbp— salad fingers 🍒 (@thotnica) September 28, 2017
Is so brave #PeteDavidson is speakin out about his battle with mental illness— Ꮆ૯ɱɱД (@Gemma__Eleanor) September 28, 2017
It gives others courage to speak up.
❤https://t.co/Qak7YrgS9d
So that's good news for reducing stigma for mental illness.
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