tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29609403.post7053775217216040725..comments2023-11-05T01:38:46.000-07:00Comments on Whoever and whatever God is: Sociopaths are everywhereDavidDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10416775522057787866noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29609403.post-91283337727678295512010-11-30T12:17:21.649-08:002010-11-30T12:17:21.649-08:00I know of a sociopath whose mother died. I knew he...I know of a sociopath whose mother died. I knew he would not well to anyone showing any sympathy. He was uncontrollably angry. Later in life he became a criminal. Sociopaths no matter how great the grief do want sympathy from anyone they cannot with emotions of any kind.Jeddy Khanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03930932625814496955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29609403.post-83470477604484568902008-12-31T22:49:00.000-08:002008-12-31T22:49:00.000-08:00How does one love a sociopath? When I was still pr...How does one love a sociopath? When I was still practicing medicine, I was surprised how easily I could do my best to help someone whom I found to be personally obnoxious, whether that was their sociopathy or something else. I eventually decided that it makes a difference that someone comes to me as a physician, even if they grumble and say harsh or duplicitous things to me. I've heard all that before. I don't care. I'm very much in control of that relationship. Perhaps more importantly it does make it easier to give them help when people humble themselves and ask for help.<BR/><BR/>Is biblical love more than that? It's true that, "Love God, love your neighbor, and love your enemies" add up to love everyone, but I'm quite sure that the men who wrote the Bible saw these categories differently. I don't know that there's anything in my last paragraph that is at odds with the Bible. I didn't say to take sociopaths out and shoot them. I said to embrace love and truth where it exists, not where it is absent. Good luck maintaining your sanity if you try to do the reverse or even measure yourself out equally for all people. <BR/><BR/>I have cared for patients. I have volunteered for the needy. It's impossible to treat all of those people equally. Does God want you to value equality over all else or to help people more where that help goes farther? Ask God. Maybe you'll get an answer.<BR/><BR/>The term "chemical imbalance" is a term at least fifty years old. There was a theory then that depression was an imbalance between acetylcholine and norepinephrine in the brain. That didn't turn out to be true. Since then it hasn't turned out that any mental illness or trait is the simple product of one or two chemicals. Anyone who says that is being incredibly simplistic.<BR/><BR/>We are all the products of biology, culture, some individual choices and even dumb luck. No two sociopaths are identical, not even twins who are gentically identical. Choices are available to all of us that would improve our lives some, no matter what we're stuck with. Science doesn't know much about why people make different choices, but it's not all biology.<BR/><BR/>I understand if you or others are trying not to be angry at sociopaths, but if you're doing that you haven't thought through your anger. Anger means "I don't like this." It doesn't necessarily mean, "You hurt me deliberately." Being in denial about something that might make you angry is something humans do naturally. Denial is not the last word on any subject, however.DavidDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10416775522057787866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29609403.post-83518170576285379532008-12-31T21:34:00.000-08:002008-12-31T21:34:00.000-08:00But we are supposed to love everyone, if we are to...But we are supposed to love everyone, if we are to do what the Bible says, and we must love all our fellow human beings, even people who are antisocial (sociopathic). There is a new name for them that is becoming used and that is dyslogic syndrome. People who are antisocial have a chemical imbalance, hence, they all have identical symptoms, I'm just passing along what I've learned recently. I've lost my faith, because the world is so hard to live in, but I am trying to love everyone equally, and it is getting easier, the more I understand they cannot help the way they are, and the best we can do for them is to find them something medical that will help them to live a normal life, and to love, cause I can't imagine not having that abilitygivenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03649544430409395794noreply@blogger.com