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hunter

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2. It's interesting how abuse and punishment play a role in this.

Reply to DetlefK (Original post)

Thu May 18, 2017, 11:42 AM

May 2017

It seems to me that people who are declared mentally ill and dysfunctional in one community, often to the point they are imprisoned, might be functional in another community as Fallon is.

We seem to be living in a society that manufactures criminals, addicts, and other dysfunctional people, and it can almost always be traced back to abusive, punitive conditions in childhood and adolescence.

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Fascinating. Nitram May 2017 #1

It's interesting how abuse and punishment play a role in this. hunter May 2017 #2

Startling article. Gives a person so much to consider. Judi Lynn May 2017 #3