New research has found a specific change in brain chemistry due to trauma. An article on Medscape.com says:
“Lower serotonin 1B levels were also strongly associated with age at first trauma. The earlier the trauma exposure, the greater the brain alterations and the greater the severity of PTSD symptoms, and the greater the risk of developing comorbidities,” senior author Alexander Neumeister, MD, associate professor of psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, told Medscape Medical News.
“These findings establish that trauma at a young age causes long-lasting neurobiological and psychological effects in survivors with PTSD. In other words, early-life trauma can interfere with normal brain development,” he said.
The article is somewhat technical, but lay readers like us can pretty much follow what is being discussed. To read the story, you need to register for Medscape.com, which is free.
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I think my spath was a founding member of Densa.
Hens, I’m one of those absent-minded ones with no common sense. 🙂
When we talk about IQ, everyone knows what it means. When we talk about EQ, it can get fuzzy. If you read about EQ in Daniel Goleman’s books, it can lead you to think that the ability to manipulate another person’s emotions is a high EQ.
My gay frienemy, who turned on me once my spath had sex with him, would drop hints to me regarding my lack of EQ. He gave me the book by Goleman and believed himself to have a high EQ.
Just because I couldn’t see the spath for what he was, he determined that I have a low EQ. But it is actually the spath and my frienemy who have low EQ’s because they lack sensibilities. I don’t NEED to know how to read and manipulate other people’s emotions because people like the real me. I just behave as myself and people automatically like me. IMO, that’s having a high EQ. Unlike a spath, I don’t have to be fake to get people to like me and bond with me.
My inability to know what a spath is was due to upbringing. My parents made sure that I didn’t know about duplicitous people because it served their purposes, being duplicitous themselves.
Our society does the same. If/When everybody is educated about the way that con-artists manipulate, the world will fall apart -literally. Because they are everywhere and the world runs on lies.
The first thing that would happen is that many many children would see that their parents are evil and demand to be liberated from the evil. We would be over run with orphans. Next, the economy would collapse as people refuse to be manipulated by advertising which feeds corporate greed. Concurrently, the trough feeders in government would be exposed and people would stop participating in government.
During this time, the psychopaths would be putting on their masks even tighter. The sheepskins would come out and they would try desperately to prove that they are sheep. They would enjoy the chaos too much though and that would unmask them.
Skylar
That is quite a scenario! The way your mind works is amazing.
I couldn’t read that article on Vanity Fair. Too much complexity in the story. Above my grade level. LOL.
In any case, I think trustworthy people trust people. Period.
And the world WORKS precisely because MOST PEOPLE ARE TRUSTWORTHY. This is how we end up with marriages, cities, electricity, units of exchange, companies, neighborhoods.
My spath and I would talk about this all the time. He, of course, believed people weren’t trustworthy, and would point to all the people in jail. But I believe, for the most part, people are trustworthy, and I pointed to my friends, neighbors, colleagues, and family, who are free.
I realize it isn’t a clean argument, but I believe I am directionaly correct.
Oh Star!
I was going to claim Densa for myself b/c I have so many DUH moments! Eww. Don’t want to be “LIKE THEM”.
I’ve noticed that people who get caught up in admiring their superior intelligence often fail to LEARN what matters.
My husband’s brother was supposed to have a high IQ, yet he was so confident about always being right that he never thought any plan, any idea, any opinion through beyond the next step. If he had, he’d have seen his logic failed after step three. Everything he does falls apart.
Built a pit barn for milking cows (easier access to the udders and less stress on joints. dairymen end up with hip problems b/c of all that squatting.) Smart to build a pit barn. BUT he Built it the wrong direction so that winter wind whipped through bitter and cold. EVERYONE builds their barns to avoid the wind, he assumed since he has superior intelligence, it followed that whatever he thought would be superior. The idea of ASKING people what they did and why they chose to do it that way was demeaning to him b/c it assumed that others knew something he didn’t. He also made other stupid PREDICTABLE mistakes, like the milk line was too small and therefore hard to clean. Milk is tested for bacteria count and your milk is rejected if over acceptable test levels. Yep. Genius.
Athena,
😀
I know that the world runs on trust, and spaths know it too. It’s not a good business model and it didn’t work for me so I’m giving it up. I like the red flag business model much better.
IQ is measured on a “bell curve” with the score of 100 being the average and 90-110 range pretty well being “normal” and below 90 someone is slow, and above 110 someone is “bright” when you get out to the 98th percentile the curve is pretty shallow on the right end and ditto on the left size, not many people are that “bright” and not many are that “slow” (retarded).
The idea was that the majority of people are “normal” (average) level of intelligence or just above or just barely below “normal”–the test itself though has some built in problems. How do you “test” someone who can’t read? So of course you can’t test an infant who can’t speak or read.
A few years ago there was some “research” done in Japan about testing the speed with which an infant’s thoughts or responses to stimuli travel and they later correlated it with the IQ tests the kids took years later…with the FASTER speed of transmissions of thoughts equaling a “smarter” person later when tested on an IQ test. Makes sense I guess.
The point of IQ testing though just goes along with how a person processes information that is taught in our schools, and memory, both short and long term. Supposedly also the ability to formulate and answer problems.
Of course it doesn’t measure musical ability or talent, or ability to paint or draw or design…I “tested well” and did well in classes in school, but I sure have NO talent in music, dance etc. In fact, I sound like a cat with their tail under a rocking chair when I try to sing, and though I worked hard at it, I never learned to play an instrument well. Since the PTSD I no longer have the accurate short term memory I used to have, so NEW LEARNING is very difficult for me now. I forget names, forget words, have word finding difficulty. This lack of my former mental ability was a really difficult thing for me to cope with the emotional problem of “losing” it—and my doctor told me about my memory, “it will come back.” To some extent it HAS returned, but I am not the person in MANY WAYS I was prior to the PTSD. After 7 + years I imagine all the “return” I’m going to get is already here. The only thing is that I have COME TO ACCEPT that I am DIFFERENT now…and I am STILL OKAY, even with the short term memory difficulties. I am NOT made okay by being able to remember a string of numbers, or remembering some one’s name, or by being able to multitask and keep 10 balls in the air at once. (Now on a good day I can keep ONE ball off the floor, if I use BOTH HANDS!) LOL
skylar,
Correct me. I am not trying to be a smartass… this time. I just think from a different perspective and want to understand.
I never thought of a business model based on trust, I thought of business derives from mutual cooperation. Therefore I thought the basis for business is contract law.
With this as my premise, how does the world run on trust?
Katy (who missed out on learning about social structure)
Oxy
When someone asked Einstein his phone number, he had to look it up. When they questioned him, he responded with logic. Why use up space in his memory for mundane that could be easily looked up. It made me feel better that my short term memory is shot.
It’s not what we know. It’s whether we know where to find the answer.
Katy,
mutual cooperation (mostly) requires that you trust the other person to cooperate as much as you do.
The words “business model” were not a perfect choice on my part. I meant, a model for any relationshiP.
Example: the reason we can drive on the road is because you and I trust that everyone is going to follow the rules and not run into us and kill us. Occasionally, someone breaks that trust, but most of the time the odds are we all arrive safely at our destination. Call it mutual cooperation or call it trust.
I like what you said: It’s not what we know. It’s whether we know where to find the answer.
All Hail to Google!