Awesome stuff bb – thanks for sharing. Really love how they relate it to storytelling and the arc. They are looking closely at oxytocin for people with autism and separately for social anxiety disorders – you can get an oxytocin nasal spray. I think I have too have oxytocin – haha – which can be problematic because too much empathy can make you depressed, because basically the world sux big time 😉 and life isn’t fair and some people just cop heaps of bad things – now I will just go into the kitchen and drink my cup half empty!
I just had an idea – if you worked with a psychopath/sociopath you could secretly emit oxytocin (given the technology had been developed) from, say a electric diffuser, on a daily basis into his office (most of them are men 😉 ) and the love drug would take effect and he would start to lose his sociopathic reality and become more sensitive and touchy feely!
Oh, how funny – my thoughts went to straight to its possible effectivity in treating sociopathy and psychopathy when I first watched the video! I like your product idea, and think you could make a packet from it selling it to the corporate world, alone, haha
Wow – I did not realize that it’s available in a non-natural form (perhaps we should carry oxcytocin nasal spray around in our bags instead of pepper spray, haha). I also did not realize that it’s been studied in relation to autism and anxiety. That’s really interesting – am going to read up more about it. Yes, too much empathy can definitely make us depressed! 😉
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This is fascinating! I am going to watch it again now – thank you.
It is, Julie – the power of storytelling!
Beautiful story and interesting study.
It is so interesting, as is your related post around the ethical questions of getting oxcytocin from non-natural sources.
An interesting video…thanks for sharing it.
Tthe implications are quite profound, Charles – am interested to explore the whole subject further.
Awesome stuff bb – thanks for sharing. Really love how they relate it to storytelling and the arc. They are looking closely at oxytocin for people with autism and separately for social anxiety disorders – you can get an oxytocin nasal spray. I think I have too have oxytocin – haha – which can be problematic because too much empathy can make you depressed, because basically the world sux big time 😉 and life isn’t fair and some people just cop heaps of bad things – now I will just go into the kitchen and drink my cup half empty!
I just had an idea – if you worked with a psychopath/sociopath you could secretly emit oxytocin (given the technology had been developed) from, say a electric diffuser, on a daily basis into his office (most of them are men 😉 ) and the love drug would take effect and he would start to lose his sociopathic reality and become more sensitive and touchy feely!
Oh, how funny – my thoughts went to straight to its possible effectivity in treating sociopathy and psychopathy when I first watched the video! I like your product idea, and think you could make a packet from it selling it to the corporate world, alone, haha
Wow – I did not realize that it’s available in a non-natural form (perhaps we should carry oxcytocin nasal spray around in our bags instead of pepper spray, haha). I also did not realize that it’s been studied in relation to autism and anxiety. That’s really interesting – am going to read up more about it. Yes, too much empathy can definitely make us depressed! 😉
Thanks, BB. Interesting research.
Thanks, Nancy – it raises a lot of questions.
Interesting piece… and an eye opener. TY for sharing it. 😉
It is an eye-opener, Elizabeth – how much are we ruled by brain chemicals?
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Interesting and moving but also so annoying to know that we depend so much on chemistry in the brain, like the lack dopamin in parkinsons disease .
I agree, Benedicte. It’s a bit scary, because it raises the question of how much of what we do is a true choice as opposed to a chemically driven one.
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