I spent 17 years working with people with challenging behaviour due to brain damage. There needs to be people who will do that.
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Because its not really them. I realise ppl with psychological problems would also be different w/out them but somehow feels more personal?
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eg 1 man would call me 'bitch' & 'cunt' &swing at me & his wife said 'This isn't him. He once punched a man for swearing in front of a lady'
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Whilst I don't agree with that, it made it very clear that the person I was dealing with was not the person he really was & I had sympathy.
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There are also famous examples of people doing horrifically bad things bc of neurological disorders.
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Yes. I watched a documentary on the number of violent criminals who had frontal lobe damaged - often caused by shaking as a baby.
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Included a kind, well-loved dentist who attacked a child in his chair & then the brain tumour in his frontal lobe was found.
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Holy shit, I'd never seen all these but read the notes in this section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman#Events_leading_to_the_shooting … Literally made me shiver.
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So desperately sad. If only he'd gone to police.
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Possibly, yes. Less personal. But ppl underestimate the desperation ppl with mental disorders can feel. BPD-ers can lash out when desperate.
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