Ask a guy who is studying neuroscience with the express intention of turning himself into a psychopath using transcranial magnetic stimulation anything.
>>24887400
why aren't thou a chad?
>>24887400
>transcranial magnetic stimulation
would this even do anything though?
what exactly do you expect to do to cause you to become a psychopath with this method
You idiot. You just have to suppress risk aversion and empathy for others.
In fact, just do some lines of coke.
>>24887445
because I am a neurotic, myopic sack of shit. I will be Chad once I blast my brain with TMS. I cannot really have free access to the equipment at the university until I enter the PHD program next year.
>>24887400
As a victim of severe child abuse and being diagnosed with reactive attachment disorder, I can firmly tell you there is zero benefit of having little empathy and emotion.
It just makes common interactions harder, you see everyone as nothing just as you see yourself as nothing.
Pro tip: You wont be seen as cool or edgy, you will be seen as an enemy by all common people that have their emotions and morals intact.
>>24887530
The idea is not to be seen as cool, that would be idiotic. The idea is to make myself better able to turn everything in my own favor. I am not far off from a psychopath in many negative respects.
>>24887494
http://freethoughtblogs.com/singham/2012/11/01/how-to-become-a-psychopath/
Its mentioned in here. It is a temporary effect in the experiment but if you regularly blasted your amygdala with TMS you could permanently lower your level of fear and attendent emotions to a very very low level. You could effect other parts related to empathy but I suspect those are already pretty low in my case. Also there was an incident of a man with aspergers who was part of a short term study where he was blasted with levels of TMS and now he claims to recognize emotions he wasn't even aware of in his 40 years of life. If you really knew about a panacea TMS was you would wonder if big-pharma was suppressing the technology in order to sell more good goy pills.
>>24887641
So you just want to be manipulative without feeling bad about it? Just learn to manipulate people, don't go fucking apeshit with neurology to do something you could more easily obtain by just putting some fucking effort into trying.
In fact; it would be difficult either way, the way psychopaths are able to manipulate is not directly based of their psychopathy but instead the coping strategies they had to learn at a young age, the psychopathy only makes it easier and removes any feeling of betrayal.
How's the 6th grade going?
>six years ago
>forensic psychiatrist offers to give me TMS to treat what appeared to be antisocial personality disorder
>I decline, worried about the treatment's potential effects on my memory
>fast forward six years, a lot of therapy under different psychiatrists/psychologists, and a complete change in lifestyle and relationships
>turns out I had untreated bipolar disorder and major emotional/empathy issues
>impulsive behavior, recklessness, disregard for others was all from frequent manic episodes
>got the mania under control, could treat everything else
>never fucking needed TMS, potentially saved my ass
what I'm getting at OP is that you're in the reverse situation and should address the reasons why you feel you need to blast your brain with something to completely change how you operate- when you're capable of changing the way you think already. sure, it will take time and a lot of effort, but you're already clearly capable of that from your academic success. if you really want to take control of your actions, the way you interact with others and your life, then do so in a way that makes sense and won't horribly backfire on you.
>>24887793
as someone in this field I can tell you that is about as useful as telling someone to "snap out" of depression. Also it is not the empathy that creates a stumbling block for me but rather an attitude of general pessimism and a proclivity for paranoid patterns of thinking that holds me back. Even now, I have only managed to get this far and put this much effort in by having this singular goal in mind.
>>24887991
what the hell could backfire? Psychopaths represent some of the most sucessful people on the planet. Becoming a psychopath doesn't automatically turn me into some kind of thug. I have accounted for the possibility of losing control and while I find it remote, in my current state of resentment I don't really care if I go full James Holmes. At the very least at a personal level I will attain a state of sublime equanimity regardless of what happens.
>>24888014
Well the major difference with telling someone to snap out of depression and telling someone not to inhibit their emotions for a bullshit reason is that one of these people already have the issue present.
You're just a child with no knowledge of this, clearly you have not researched this enough nor do you fully understand the logistics.
This wont help you, you wont attain your primary goals, you will just make everything harder on yourself under a false hope that you can just blast your brain so you don't care.
Honestly the best thing to do for the goal you're trying to reach is to become involved in an illicit subject and preferably an addiction of sorts. So you have to hide your actions while having a desperate need for doing so.
>>24888165
the long-term effects of TMS are not well-documented. there is potential risk of seriously impacting your cognitive functioning, for the sake of trying to become something you can accomplish WITHOUT blasting your head with magnets. if you read the rest of the thread you'll hear from multiple people that you can achieve the positive traits of psychopathy through study, conditioning, time and hard work. what you're trying to do is not a reasonable alternative.
>>24888368
Yeah, maybe before you are 23 that has some viability but once you hit the mid-twenties (I myself am 25) your ability to radically change, especially where regards personality is significantly hindered. Long term effects? I can get a brain tumor from the TMS for all I care. I spent a lot of time wallowing in depression and it was only through an accidental interest in neuroscience and the realization that the brain could be totally rewired by way of it that allowed me to even get to this unremarkable stage.
>>24888546
Except the stage you want to get to isn't through brain re-wiring, its through 3rd party events that result in coping strategies similar to classic manipulation.
this is the edgyest thread i have ever seen.
>>24888657
Sure, hence the picture
a hear the effect of benzos can be a fair analogue to psychopathy
I also hear that abuse can lead to chronically blunted empathy and flight response
I also hear that instead it creates significant "rebound anxiety" in some chronic users that can last for potentially months before stabling off
but this is all just what I hear over the hedge so you might want to research it yourself
>>24888657
Yeah, OP's a real faggot this time around. Who would've knew.
I'll hijack this thread and ask a question: How can one "kill" his feelings for other people(even close people) without being depressed? Also, is there a way to achieve self control so that I am able to concentrate better overall? Like opening a book and reading all of it without thinking about useless things and wasting time. The idea of being a manipulative sociopath is kind of appealing famiglia.
>>24888857
Buddhist and Stoics may have what you seek
Is it true that deliberately doing bad things and viewing gore kills empathy?
Answer me op desu
>>24889111
I hear E.M.T.s often develop weak empathy overtime so there may be something to gore
A question to the OP:
Does the amount of love a child receives from both parents during childhood and adolescence reflects on her actions on later life? Or is it just a meme and people that do bad shit were born bad?
Also, explain Bundy to me
>>24888857
>The idea of being a manipulative sociopath is kind of appealing famiglia.
>>24889316
Im not OP, but I'm also not a raving moron so I should be able to help you.
1: Yes, affection is definitely required for a young child. Without it, the child can't build healthy relationships and they will have a harder time over all.
2: Bundy was just a banter lad, not rally much in serial killers but a few depraved thoughts probably coming from early disconnections (see previous answer)
>>24889428
Isnt this what this thread is all about?
>>24888857
Get addicted to something like meth or heroin if you want to dull your emotions. Depression will have to follow though, psychopathy is almost like an express train to depression in a lot of ways.
>>24889469
Yeah but if you watch Bundy's interviews you'll see that he was raised almost perfectly by his parents, e.g. read the bible, went to church, wasnt beaten, had a healthy relationship with his parents etc. It's weird to think that such a small "disconnection" could disvirtuate him of his path and give the world one of the most cynical serial killers.
>>24889571
That interview was given literally hours before he was going to be executed for the rape and murder of dozens of women. You don't think he might have had some kind of ulterior motive? You forgot to mention that he puts 100% of the blame on violent pornography, in other words; he was a decent guy from a decent, Christian family that got corrupted by pornography.
