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Originally Posted by TheDragon
Put any animal under extreme stress, especially while they're young, and they tend to be a bit screwy when they're older. I've worked with traumatized dogs and cats before. Is it any surprise that it'd be the same with humans, especially with a more complicated psyche?
But as Venus pointed out, it's a bit baffling how they can use mice to research the human mind. This certainly looks at the more basic biological factors, but at the end of the day can we really use any other animal for the basis of the human brain?
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I take care of traumatized cat and he's very uncuddly and stiff and has nightmares and sleeps while standing...
but human trauma is often more complicated then weren't fed (hardly happens in the west anymore,unless extreme case of neglectful parents), weren't cuddled enough/hadn't had enough love (this one relates to humans most, but still for humans it's much much much more complicated) and were physically abused (again, can relate to humans, but hard to study emotional abuse in animals).
stress of post-industrial society often isn't in lack of something. It doesn't even come from "real" danger. But maybe situation where you cannot fight or flight is much more damaging, as we aren't equiped to deal with it. We are looking for answers by the same tools that are creating the problem.
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