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MDMA as a treatment for Psycho/Sociopathy?

crzydiamond said:
This is an interesting concept...and some responses kind of answer something I could never figure out

I took E on two occasions with someone who has been diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder (sociopath). Both times I was high off it...the usual feelings. He on the other hand both times (different stuff, taken months apart from different sources) claimed the pills were garbage n he got ripped off !?! I didn't get it at all. But now, reading this thread, I understand what may very well have been the reason: empathetic drug not having effect on his brain. Well at least now I understand how I could be rolling off the same stuff he claimed "didn't work"
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Oh that is good to hear...I was concerned I might be a sociopath, but when I have taken E/MDMA I definitely rolled and it was a great time.
 
RTrain said:
Oh that is good to hear...I was concerned I might be a sociopath, but when I have taken E/MDMA I definitely rolled and it was a great time.
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Just because one psychopath doesn't respond to MDMA doesn't mean they all don't. Read my previous post, I think there are a lot more factors in play than just oxytocin.

Probably safe to say the non-responder had a mutation preventing proper oxytocin binding, or has some paradoxical reaction to it, though.
 
pofacedhoe said:
it wouldn't give them empathy, i have a friend who was a little bit sociopathic (no empathy, unbelievable drug intake, innability to control his temper breaking a female housemates nose for no reason) anyway he got addicted to mdma but i never saw him have any empathy from it. he was always laughing his head off from it but NEVER seemed loved up one little bit.
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This would be my guess, and in some cases i think they would get a little empathy from it.
How ever i feel like after their little after glow. They would revert back to their old self, MDMA is no long term cure. It can just shed light on certain things.
 
I am not a sociopath so I couldn't comment on their reaction, but I could well picture those who are, as exemplified by the anecdote about the guy in the bar, being horrified by the change, as its forcing a completely non-native neurotype, or rather, running one via an emulator, to use the oft-cited analogy of brain as computer.

It can certainly be disconcerting. I've said it before probably somewhere, I forget, but I'm autistic, and cannot stand MDMA or methylone. Pro-social, gushy empathetic, etc. etc. is quite a stomach-churning thought to be quite honest. If I wanted to act neurotypical, I'd have shot myself in the face and hoped for reincarnation as one. No thanks.
 
It can certainly be disconcerting. I've said it before probably somewhere, I forget, but I'm autistic, and cannot stand MDMA or methylone. Pro-social, gushy empathetic, etc. etc. is quite a stomach-churning thought to be quite honest.
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As someone who's...maybe a little Aspie, I had a similar experience but found it liberating. I usually have to run emulations that produce the behavior that would be yielded from directly reading people socially and emotionally (and to some extent, my own emotions). I won't automatically 'feel out' how other people feel. I will have to analyze facial attributes to make a (really bad) guess about their intentions and feelings. Suddenly being able to run such programs 'natively' was amazing.

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