Discussion»Questions»Emotions» Can people who have had short fuses from the moment of their birth on learn better coping skills or will they always be explosive?
Hi JA, I found an interesting commentary online... "Research ... with exceptionally violent hunter-gatherers found that men who committed acts of homicide had more children, as they were more likely to survive and sire more offspring. Thus, we may all be here today because of violence in our ancestral past."
My take is that we all have anger to some extent; so when we are ready, we just start from where we are and work with what we've got...we humankind are more than our gene pool, and we can choose not to be pushed around by ancestral genetics.
* * * Hypothetically, perhaps the person genetically most disposed to anger could end up the calmest, because he/she would work on it more deeply.
On a more controversial note ... i read research into new Yorks crime rather drop and their zero tolerance approach ... seems it may not have been the cause at all .. one researcher looked back 15 odd years and found that's when abortions became legalised or more freely ... the thought being that it was less people being born into bad circumstances that he up to become criminals
Ozgirl, I think that is a very good point...is the research really conclusive? Or is the "genetic predisposition" actually some other hidden third cause...
This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at March 18, 2017 5:28 PM MDT
a Lobotomy? HaHa .....Used to Be a Psych Tech at a State Hospital for the Mentally Touched, while in college. ...The Electro Shock was treatment of Choice. For these explosive characters that would be admitted at night ...first was a kick in the stomach then a big shot of Thorazine as they bent over in their read end. then the Electro Shock next day. .....Gruesome Had to quit that job drop out of school and go to India, it affected me so... oops probably off topic the question brought up memory
Come on, JA. You are better than this. WHAT people? Some? Sure. Everyone? Hardly. We have short fuses from crack heads, crack babies, all kinds of mental anomalies, learned behavior, etc. Of course the end result of dysfunction is to be expected, but hardly can any determination be made as to how many succeed versus how many do not since there are so many avenues of possibility.
It does not bode well for those who have an habitual short fuse, but that is mostly because they are not conscious and aware enough to even realize there is more to life than this behavior. They have no idea that there are tools that can aid many of these unfortunates. Even anger management classes awaken many. Meds definitely have their place, and punishment is it's own reward in this case. If I were a continual jerk, blowing up at everyone who made me mad, I need to be put down or put away until my change of attitude kicks in. Some are sick and cannot be mended. Some are sick and can. And some are just ignorant and spoiled and need to be corrected lest they wreak more havoc on themselves and everyone else.
I used to completely lose my shizit over the smallest thing and have an aweful temper.... I've calmed down allot over the past 2 years. Being presciped a little pill to stick under my tongue helps:).... But also I think I've learned to let some stuff go. Or it's the pills. :) or both.
Benedict Arnold 