[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by Christmas treeza

I' going to use that word.... trigger.

With psychopathy there has to be an event or series of events that turns on this part of the brain within the psychopath.

Could these games do it?

Does there? I wouldn't have thought so really. I would say its always there. Some chose to act on it (maybe for superficial reasons..most common seems to be rejection by a romantic partner) and some don't. I genuinely cannot imagine how playing a violent videogame could be a 'trigger'

I am apparently a sociopath. Which means (according to the internet and searches I have done since having this revealed to me) I could have psychopathic tendencies. But I watch endless gory films and such and have never felt the urge to hurt someone badly. I know I could hurt someone badly and feel no guilt (I have hurt people 'not badly' and felt no guilt, I have done some very bad things and not felt guilt too, I am very manipulative also when I want to be and never feel bad for that) as I have thought about it a lot and how I would actually take it and have come to the conclusion that I could actually kill someone and not care at all. All I would care about is the possibility of getting caught and going to prison. But still, as I said I watch a ridiculous amount of gory films, I watch real beheadings and such on the net, and still never this 'trigger' has happened to me. Hmm. Though it does concern me a lot that I have thought enough into it to come to the conclusion that I could kill without regret.

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

Does there? I wouldn't have thought so really. I would say its always there. Some chose to act on it (maybe for superficial reasons..most common seems to be rejection by a romantic partner) and some don't. I genuinely cannot imagine how playing a violent videogame could be a 'trigger'

I am apparently a sociopath. Which means (according to the internet and searches I have done since having this revealed to me) I could have psychopathic tendencies. But I watch endless gory films and such and have never felt the urge to hurt someone badly. I know I could hurt someone badly and feel no guilt (I have hurt people 'not badly' and felt no guilt, I have done some very bad things and not felt guilt too, I am very manipulative also when I want to be and never feel bad for that) as I have thought about it a lot and how I would actually take it and have come to the conclusion that I could actually kill someone and not care at all. All I would care about is the possibility of getting caught and going to prison. But still, as I said I watch a ridiculous amount of gory films, I watch real beheadings and such on the net, and still never this 'trigger' has happened to me. Hmm. Though it does concern me a lot that I have thought enough into it to come to the conclusion that I could kill without regret.

This neuroscientist was shocked to discover he was... as he had no idea, he could only assume that due to to his life experiences he hadn't been 'triggered'.
Unless you do kill someone then I guess being a psychopath is nothing to be ashamed of?

I can't watch beheadings or anything, gory films terrify me and yet faced with a real life situation involving serious injury doesn't phase me at all.
I identify with the manipulative and charismatic part I suppose.
The most telling being how I need to 'rest' after being around people.... it's just so draining.

If I'm being perfectly honest I wouldn't trust myself to act rationally and revenge for major slights was sweet, as I've joked before I don't know how my ex is still alive... he must have a cast iron stomach. That was for hitting my son, I remember it as clear as day it was like a switch, all the love I had for him vanished in an instant and I just wanted him dead.

Too much mario cart 64 maybe? haha!

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...f-a-psychopath

[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by Christmas treeza

This neuroscientist was shocked to discover he was... as he had no idea, he could only assume that due to to his life experiences he hadn't been 'triggered'.
Unless you do kill someone then I guess being a psychopath is nothing to be ashamed of?

I can't watch beheadings or anything, gory films terrify me and yet faced with a real life situation involving serious injury doesn't phase me at all.
I identify with the manipulative and charismatic part I suppose.
The most telling being how I need to 'rest' after being around people.... it's just so draining.

If I'm being perfectly honest I wouldn't trust myself to act rationally and revenge for major slights was sweet, as I've joked before I don't know how my ex is still alive... he must have a cast iron stomach. That was for hitting my son, I remember it as clear as day it was like a switch, all the love I had for him vanished in an instant and I just wanted him dead.

Too much mario cart 64 maybe? haha!

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...f-a-psychopath

From that article I searched for this hare psychopathy checklist..as the wiki link didn't have the actual questions. I found this

http://uk.businessinsider.com/hare-p...ficial-charm-1

And I score 17/20 on it

So thats scary.

So maybe psychopath instead of sociopath. Which is nice...

Only ones that don't apply to me are
Do you have a grandiose sense of self-worth? (though I do very often feel that I should have more than I have, even from not working for it...so maybe?)
Have you had many short-term "marital" relationships?
Do you have a "parasitic lifestyle"? (though this one does kind of apply to me at the moment due to illness. But when I am not ill its a no so I don't think its right to apply this one for sake of the test)

One of the comments on the guardian link is interesting to me 'I've often wondered if psychopathy could not be treated with MDMA (ecstasy), a drug renowned for massively increasing empathy.'. As my own experiences with MDMA made me feel like a complete different person, which is why I was so heavily into it as a teenager as it was so...alien to me.

[DemolitionRed]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

Does there? I wouldn't have thought so really. I would say its always there. Some chose to act on it (maybe for superficial reasons..most common seems to be rejection by a romantic partner) and some don't. I genuinely cannot imagine how playing a violent videogame could be a 'trigger'

I am apparently a sociopath. Which means (according to the internet and searches I have done since having this revealed to me) I could have psychopathic tendencies. But I watch endless gory films and such and have never felt the urge to hurt someone badly. I know I could hurt someone badly and feel no guilt (I have hurt people 'not badly' and felt no guilt, I have done some very bad things and not felt guilt too, I am very manipulative also when I want to be and never feel bad for that) as I have thought about it a lot and how I would actually take it and have come to the conclusion that I could actually kill someone and not care at all. All I would care about is the possibility of getting caught and going to prison. But still, as I said I watch a ridiculous amount of gory films, I watch real beheadings and such on the net, and still never this 'trigger' has happened to me. Hmm. Though it does concern me a lot that I have thought enough into it to come to the conclusion that I could kill without regret.

I've got to go with what Kizzy says here. Its not always there. Whilst its true that sociopathy/psychopathy is usually predisposed to the gene pool, its not always the case. Frontal lobe injuries often cause the recovered person to show sociopathic traits that weren't previously there.

But back to being born with sociopathic genes. Modern thinking say it’s the environment that is often the catalyst that nurtures those genes. Therefore, a child born with a sociopathic genes, brought up in a healthy environment is less likely to exhibit traits as an adult but a child brought up in an abusive environment is more likely to go through the ripple effect that can lead to psychopathic behavior.

Its interesting what you say about your self diagnosis. There are a lot of people with sociopathic traits amongst us but don’t have enough traits to have a diagnosis and are therefore not sociopaths.