#abnormal behavior

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👇👇👇 Important canon vs headcanon infodump below 👇👇👇

These are basically all I had to work with back in the day, plus the Jango Fett: Open Seasons comics about Galidraan, exactly one image of (alive) Sifo Dyas and that interview with Alethea McGrath where she said she imagined Dooku and Jocasta had been a thing. Legacy of the Jedi establishes that Dooku and Qui-Gon are only ten years apart in age, and that’s pretty much what inspired my early comics. There’s also this kid named Lorian Nod who’s basically a worse, early version of Sifo Dyas, as well as Thame Cerulian who for some reason trains Dooku instead of just Yoda. This is basically all legends/eu now anyway, and I think that’s largely for the best lol

I’m gonna be honest, I haven’t read Dooku: Jedi Lost or anything else that’s come out recently 😬👍 I’m more or less aware of the plot and characters, but some of it disrupts the headcanons that I’ve developed over the years, so I really don’t get too much into it. This is important because that means you’re not gonna see any Rael Averross, and some of the characters’ timelines will be ✨different✨ lol. I headcanon that Dooku chose Qui-Gon shortly after being knighted, and Qui-Gon’s death ultimately gave Dooku the final push to leave the order. That being said, I love that Sifo Dyas has been fleshed out and I really enjoy a lot of the character development in general! So there’s gonna be plenty more Sifo in the future, but don’t think too hard about what I post because I’m just a silly guy who doesn’t know anything hahaha

Anyway, this basically didn’t cover anything lol but now you know that I’m just out here drawing these guys with very little regard for canon🕺

Do any of you guys have these books? Or did you read them? Are these ancient texts now?? We had all the Jude Watson Jedi Apprentice books but I think my mom donated them years ago.

[tmbgaresuck]

sometimes the cat urges take over Flansburgh and he attacks Dan Miller, whom in his past life was delicate mouse.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

There are no abnormal behaviors, only a normal response to an abnormal set of experiences.

I like that.

If someone seems to be acting abnormally, yeah, you can look at it that way. But you can also see that they're acting in a very normal way considering what they've been through.

Like someone that is a victim of trauma is going to respond in a normal way, considering that context, in a way that to you or I who hasn't seen that.

Yeah.

Seems abnormal.

You have compassion to pretty much...

To put it into an example, a lot of men have violent fantasies. People see that as like a toxic thing, a dangerous thing, the research into violent fantasies finds that they are often a response to bullying in school. So, they looked at boys who were bullied and they found that 97% of the most bullied boys in school went on to have violent fantasies. So more or less all of them.

That explains a lot.

They hypothesized that violent fantasies of men were basically them-- a coping mechanism for them to deal with violence to come. So, as a boy, they were being bullied so relentlessly their brain came up with the coping mechanism of violent fantasies as a means of dealing with violence, they're expecting it to come, so they're fantasizing about it, and they just never got rid of it.

And suddenly, if you look at men who have violent fantasies within the context of a bullied boy, you have a lot more compassion for them. And suddenly that violent fantasy is no longer an abnormal behavior. It's just a normal response to an abnormal set of experiences.

And like, going back to your question about 'how to we help men?' or 'what do we do?' I would say don't see men as some sort of static object, even men we don't like who do bad things, they are the response and the product of what they've been through. They're not-- they haven't just arrived here, you have no idea what that person's been through, what they've experienced.

And we don't have as much of a problem having that view-set of women, which I agree with. That if a woman commits a crime, even a horrific crime, we ask what has she been through? Is she a victim in her own right? Has she experienced trauma? And often she has because violence is cyclical in that way.

But we struggle to extend that to men.

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Young people who experience bullying are more likely to fantasise about committing acts of violence – study

Experiencing bullying and forms of aggression in late adolescence and early adulthood is linked to a marked increase in the likelihood of ha

Experiencing bullying and forms of aggression in late adolescence and early adulthood is linked to a marked increase in the likelihood of having daydreams or fantasies about hurting or killing people, according to a new study.

While research has shown that significant numbers of people fantasise about inflicting harm, little is known about the processes behind such 'violent ideations'.   

A team led by a University of Cambridge professor tracked the self-reported thoughts and experiences of 1,465 young people from schools across the Swiss city of Zurich at the ages of 15, 17 and 20.

Researchers gathered data on whether violent thoughts had occurred in the last 30 days, and the types of bullying or aggression experienced over the last 12 months.

They used questionnaires to probe the levels of aggression (humiliation, beatings, murder) and imagined targets (strangers, friends) within young people’s darkest fantasies.

The team also asked about experiences of 23 forms of 'victimisation', such as taunts, physical attacks and sexual harassment by peers, aggressive parenting – yelling, slapping, hitting with a belt – and dating violence eg being pressured into sex.

While the majority of teenagers had been victimised in at least one way, experiencing a range of mistreatment was 'closely associated' with a higher likelihood of thinking about killing, attacking or humiliating others.

Boys were more prone to violent thinking in general, but the effect of multiple victimisations on violent fantasies was very similar in both sexes.

Among 17-year-old boys who had not been victimised in the preceding year, the probability of violent fantasies in the last month was 56%.

With every additional type of mistreatment, the probability of violent fantasies increased by up to 8%. Those who listed five forms of victimisation had an 85% probability of having had violent fantasies; for those who listed ten it was 97%.

Among girls the same age, no victimisation experience had a violent fantasy probability of 23%, which increased to 59% in those who listed five types of mistreatment, and 73% in those who said they had suffered ten.

“One way to think about fantasies is as our brain rehearsing future scenarios,” said Prof Manuel Eisner, Director of Cambridge’s Violence Research Centre and lead author of the study published in the journal Aggressive Behavior.

“The increased violent fantasies among those who experience bullying or mistreatment may be a psychological mechanism to help prepare them for violence to come,” he said.

“These fantasies of hitting back at others may have roots deep in human history, from a time when societies were much more violent, and retribution – or the threat of it – was an important form of protection.”

According to Eisner, the research hints at the extent of violent ideation in societies as seemingly peaceful as Switzerland – with murderous thoughts surprisingly commonplace.

“About 25% of all 17-year-old boys and 13% of girls reported having at least one fantasy of killing a person they know during the past 30 days. Close to one in five of all the study participants at that age. These thoughts may be deeply troubling to those who experience them,” he said.

The team – including researchers from the University of Zurich, University of Edinburgh, University of Utrecht, University of Leiden, and Universidad de la Republica – collected and analysed a wealth of data.

As such, they were able to filter out and ‘control’ for other possible triggers for violent thinking in the teenagers. For example, they found that socio-economic status played little role in violent fantasy rates.

The study also shows that 'adverse life events' such as financial troubles or parental separation had no significant impact. “Thoughts of killing others are triggered by experiences of interpersonal harm-doing, attacks on our personal identity, rather than noxious stimuli more generally,” said Eisner.

“It’s the difference between conditions that make people angry and upset, and those that make people vengeful.”

By following most of the teenagers to the cusp of adulthood, researchers could track patterns over several years. Overall rates of the most extreme thoughts decreased by the age of 20: only 14% of young men and 5.5% of women had thought about killing someone they know in the past month.   

However, the effects of victimisation on violent fantasies did not lessen as they grew up, suggesting the intensity of this psychological mechanism may not fade.   

“This study did not examine whether violent ideations caused by victimisation actually lead to violent behaviour. However, a consistent finding across criminology is that victims often become offenders, and vice versa,” said Eisner. 

“Fantasies are unrestrained, and the vengeance taken in our minds is often wildly disproportionate to the real-world event which triggered it.

“Studying the mechanisms behind violent fantasies, particularly at a young age, may help with targeted interventions that can stop obsessive rumination turning horribly real.” 

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me when i watch a show for children: Needs more torture porn

[luvsjimmyreed]

Jimmy Reed: On 'Mentally Unhealthy'

Question: 'Mentally unhealthy' is such a vaguely defined term, I think people simply use it as an excuse to try to curb eccentricity.

Jimmy Reed: I think you're right, my lovely. If there are mountains of evidence proving that certain behaviours are harmful, that's one thing - but, even in those cases, it's not something we should be forceful about... providing, of course, that it's not harmful to other people. It ought to be mentioned that even supposedly 'normal behaviour' has a potential to be psychologically harmful. Maybe we ought to just let people live, and life is all about taking risks.

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danny phantom fans in 2021 kinda weird how are y'all obsessed with making guro of a 15 year old

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psychology fact

🌟psychology has no true definition of abnormal behavior🌟

abnormal can = a deviation from statistical norms, social norms, a person's own norms

but overall, there is no one-size-fits-all definition of what Abnormal is. This is why diagnosing should be centered around and useful to the patient. Big blanket statements or diagnoses can be useful for generally compiling a research study, or for quickly conveying a set of symptoms and possible treatments, but behavior is much more individual than large statements can convey.

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local college kid does psych project with Gigi the cat p.s. thanks @alapest1 for giving me Gigi a few years ago for my birthday