"Crazy and unpredictable," most people say. But there's more to it.
Psychopaths are people who suffer from a brain abnormality that causes them to grow up without developing a conscience or any capacity to connect with their fellow human beings. Most of the time, a psychopath feels bored and restless, craving stimulation. This is partly because they have the need for the benefits of human contact WITHOUT the ability to make or to receive such contact, and partly because the cerebral cortex of a psychopath is rarely fully aroused to normal consciousness (not to be confused with "conscience"), instead hovering at what EEGs show to be a hybrid of alertness and alpha-sleep waves. This may also account to some degree for the psychopath's ability to lie and also to their sometimes amazingly illogical grasp of reality.
Psychopaths make life hell for many people around them, but their existence is hell too. Therapy can sometimes help some, as can some medications, but until neurosurgeons can do something about the brain abnormalities that cause psychopathy, the condition, which afflicts four out of every hundred people, cannot be cured.
REMEMBER AS WELL THAT PSYCHOPATHS ARE IN FACT LIVING MEMBERS OF THE HUMAN RACE. Defending yourself against a psychopath is one thing; attacking someone just for being one is quite another. I do not need to have a conscience to see that!
Meaning that certain health-care givers who smiled grimly and knowingly when looking at my file, and who then have roughed me up or verbally battered me or even hit me, in clinical settings, plus all those so very pious folks who constantly preach that scum like me ought to be lined up and shot, are WRONG.
How can people know I'm "totally hopeless" if they never give me a chance? The therapist I see now is doing just that, and this, in combination with medications that change the ways my nervous system functions, seems to be helping me. Which, of course, is supposedly impossible. Well. It's happening anyway, and I know there are other ones out there too!
One very important point, therefore, is that, most certainly, no one helps sociopaths by repeatedly calling them 'evil'! That kind of response cannot possibly help anyone. A sociopath before treatment cannot trust anyone and must learn the fundaments of trust and interaction between people. No one who is persuaded to believe that he or she is just plain bad can sustain any hope for change. It becomes a vicious cycle: the sociopath, being told he or she is evil and cannot be helped, gives up, and in frustration and anger lashes out again at people, and in response to that, people say that their original point is proven.
The main reason sociopaths don't usually seek help is that they can't trust, rather than that they like being as they are. Plus, they can often sense exactly what sort of a response any call for help on their part is most likely to elicit from professionals and lay folk alike. Sociopaths are not breezing along in paradise. It isn't all a game. It's a truly miserable existence. And it can be made better. It may not be "curable" yet, but it most certainly isn't as hopeless as so many people say. There is therefore nothing to be gained and much to be lost when therapists and lay folk try to ostracize sociopaths from the human race entirely! Sensationalism and superstition will only prevent progress.
This was written on another question on the same essential topic as this one, by a self-confessed sociopath (other than me!) --
The essay that follows was written in another answer by another self-admitted sociopath, who actually might not be a sociopath. Still another person added the brief comment to that effect after her tragic essay.
Seven Psychopaths was created on 2012-11-02.
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No, psychopaths get the top jobs by killing their competition.
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A thesis is really something you have to think of yourself as it's much easier to complete if you're actually interested in the topic. However, you may want to look at: Psychopaths and impulsivity - perhaps correlations Female psychopaths are under-investigated Successful psychopaths, e.g. ruthless businessmen Psychopathy and Apathy.....the list is endless.....!
Psychopaths are often very manipulative people, and are generally very skilled at lying. Psychopaths can absolutely fool people into thinking that they love them. However, since true psychopaths do not have any empathy, they are not capable of love in the traditional sense and any "love" that they show is simply manipulative behavior.
Yes, many are. Many are charismatic psychopaths. They are irresistible, charming, , and have the ability to manipulate well.
yes they do.