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Mental Health Information

littlemissmartypants

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4. I find it frightening. Thanks for sharing it.

Reply to BigmanPigman (Reply #2)

Tue Jan 29, 2019, 12:28 AM

Jan 2019

I clicked through and found this tidbit which cuts to the heart of the matter.

Most experts agree that the condition is permanent and completely untreatable. It’s been theorized that their situation is the result of a kind of inherited learning disorder: without dread or anxiety to deter them, psychopaths are unable to make the associations between behavior and punishment that make up the building blocks of a normal conscience.

https://www.damninteresting.com/the-unburdened-mind/

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