I think it would be more upsetting if its a person with mental health issues. Much easier not to take it personally when it's brain damage.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @TamaraBrouwer1
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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Replying to @HPluckrose @TamaraBrouwer1
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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Replying to @HPluckrose @TamaraBrouwer1
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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Replying to @HPluckrose @TamaraBrouwer1
There are also famous examples of people doing horrifically bad things bc of neurological disorders.
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Replying to @Intrinsic29 @TamaraBrouwer1
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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Replying to @HPluckrose @TamaraBrouwer1
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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Replying to @Intrinsic29 @TamaraBrouwer1
So desperately sad. If only he'd gone to police.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @Intrinsic29
He did go to a psychiatrist. And told about his anger. Yet nothing. Smh
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Replying to @HPluckrose @Intrinsic29
It's why I feel being critical of your field is so important. He is not a single case.
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