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Activity in the brain's "hate circuit" is out of sync across the circuit's three regions, leading to self-loathing and other failures to deal appropriately with feelings of hate, research suggests
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Add CommentInteresting article but certainly requires more research before any conclusions as to the hate circuit of the brain can be validated. I think unbeliever needs some professional help, he obviously has some hate issues to be worked through. Perhaps he could be part of one of the studies on hatred.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisSome people thrive on attention. It's really best to ignore them and not address them directly. It annoys the hell out of them!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisIt would be interesting to know more about the specific circuits involved and when they are engaged.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI wonder if it really is a "hate circuit" per se.
My own thinking is that this may be a triggering of less than optimal early attachment/working models of the mind.
Specifically, that without sufficient emotional acceptance/nurturing to meet fundamental needs early in life that this limits one's own capacity for soothing (and in fact results in self-hate and loathing).
Not to mention some possibility of unaccepted emotions and needs resulting in rage that is turned inwards in a form of self-hate.
Hence, the link to being related to "loving" circuits may indeed be relevant. It's just that the "loving" circuits may not have been sufficiently activated/responded to early in life.
"In fact, two of the brain regions in the "hate circuit" are also thought to be involved in feelings of love."
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWell this explains my last marriage. A love/hate relationship.
She loved to hate me. I hated myself for loving her.
One has to note that Freud once said, "Depression is anger turned inward". Perhaps we now have proof he was right.
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