League_Girl wrote:
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Can people turn into sociopaths or are they always just born that way? I wonder if I was turning into a sociopath?
I wonder the same about myself. Can one be a temporary sociopath. I know when I am under extreme stress and anxiety and I have no way to get out of the situation, I can start having sociopath thoughts and then having the compulsions and then I may act on it. I even wanted to drown our puppy we had that wouldn't quit peeing in the house because my parents refused to watch him and keep him crated until he was house trained. I had lot of violent fantasies about that animal and one day I was saved, he got hit by a car and what do you know, I was back to "normal" again. Bye bye the sociopath thoughts and feeling compulsions to kill. What stopped me from executing that plan was my fear my family would abandon me and put me in a mental hospital for sick crazy people who are dangerous. All because I was 16 and had no escape and I was put into that situation by my own family and my anxiety and mental health no longer mattered. This still makes me angry to this day when I even think about it. How could my family do this to me when they knew about my issues? It's no different than deliberately trigging someone's PTSD and then blaming it on them for their actions. Same with autistic sensory issues too. This is like a set up to put a vulnerable person in as a reason to lock them away so they can do something they would never do.
I think sometimes people are pushed to a point where they are emotionally and mentally spent, and their brain cannot filter out thoughts like that nor expend the energy to be necessarily empathetic/sympathetic towards other things.
I think I have an okay amount of empathy and am not a sociopath at all, but I've dealt with having violent thoughts towards people who push me towards my mental limits and actively refuse to stop. I've never acted on the really bad ones though.
Humans are animals, and sometimes when animals are "backed into a corner", for lack of a better way to word it, they become aggressive/desire to do aggressive things as that's the natural last resort to fix something that your brain is perceiving as endangering you in some way.
27 Jan 2021, 8:09 pm
