The Los Angeles Times reported on Friday an interesting study about the effects of sleep deprivation on genetics. Essentially, lack of sleep caused some genes, such as those involved in stress reactions, to be amplified. Others, such as those involved in healing, were turned down. Read:
Sleep deprivation has genetic consequences, study finds, on LATimes.com.
I found this study interesting for two reasons. First of all, some sociopaths actively try to prevent their partners from getting enough sleep, and the study points to the real health consequences of this subtle form of abuse.
Secondly, the study highlights the fact that genes can change. Here’s a key concept: We are all born with a package of genes, but for the genes to influence our bodies or personalities they have to “express,” or be activated. And whether or not genes express can depend on our life experiences.
This may provide hope for people who discover that they’ve had a child with a sociopath. Even though the child may be at risk of inheriting the disorder because of genetics, it’s not necessarily a done deal.
Truthspeak
ew………I was routinely punished via sleep deprivation. It’s apparently a common tactic – again, where do they learn this stuff??????
TeaLight……just………EW!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Brightest blessings
DawnG
I definitely took some abuse for wanting to go to sleep at a ‘normal’ time. I’d wake up early in the morning after a restless night and he would say abusive things while he laid there like a lump in the bed. I worked a day job, he willfully didn’t work for 6 months. He dozed on the sofa with the TV on for 20 hours a day and only got up to go to the neighborhood bars.
I didn’t even realize how sleep deprived I was. I was so tired all of the time that it made my stomach sick, I had vicious migraines, all kind of internal and external aches and pains, and I couldn’t function physically or mentally. For almost a month after we split I did nothing but sleep.
blossom4th
I remember one awful morning yrs ago,that started with an argument-HE STARTED.
After arguing,rather after he did most of the arguing- because I was still desperately TRYING to get sleep that I NEEDED,he rolled me out of the bed and I fell on the floor!About that time the phone rang,and it was the wife of his best friend letting him know his friend had just died.So I went from abused to comforter that quickly.Finally we fell back to sleep.I woke up to find out that I had had an epileptic seizure!STRESS!My head felt like it was ready to explode!It would have felt so good just to rest all day!But that was not to be.We had planned a 5 hr trip for that day.So I carefully got out of bed and proceeded to get ready,and did my resting in the car!I would not have done that for my husband,but the trip was for our oldest daughter.
dorothy2
OMG! 😯
It’s all just unreal.
They learn this ” stuff ” at Spath School. I swear, when men are at a bar and there are no women around, this I what they talk about. Bar = Spath School.
Sick
Tea Light
Blossom, good God..he pushed you out of bed? Mine would push me into the very edge I felt like stabbing him one time the level of aggression because I didn’t play along with my alloted role – smiling servant / sex slave – was mindblowing. x
LadyinRed
Dorothy 2: I was on Prozac many years ago. A great anti depressant it was for me, improved immensely. Worked for two years then I crashed. Got off the meds alltogether until the physco, now again med free. Works well for some, depends on the type of depression I think.
LadyinRed
My physco shared his athletes foot, rubbing his feet on mine in bed. Two days later my feet began to itch, then he told me why. Evil they are.
dorothy2
Lady in Red, thank you. I seem to do ok on brand name Prozac but not generic. I think I need a different dose. I’m only on 10 mg but it is crazy expensive. I’d like to find something more affordable for sure.
Thanks for your input. 🙂
dorothy2
What’s up withe Spath feet? Spath x couldn’t be bothered to trim his toenails and would slice me from time to time…..
Ouch! Oh….sorry.
Really?
Idiots. Whacked out idiots. Freaks.
blossom4th
Ewwww Dorothy2,what an awful reminder! 🙁 Spath husband wouldn’t trim his toenails either;wanted me to do it!His toenails were HARD-I hated clipping them,and found excuses for not doing it-although getting scrapes and cuts would eventually lead me to finding those darn clippers!
Tea Light,
He had no problem with rolling me out of bed;he had ‘accidentally’ pushed me into the (dry) bathtub once;and practically knocked a front tooth out while I was pregnant….he was more worried about what my parents would think than how I felt about my appearance!