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What would you do if you knew your young child is a psychopath?

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  • #102
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Akrasia wrote: »
    If you were the parent of a 8 year old who you discovered was secretly torturing animals and displaying all the symptoms of being a psychopath, what would you do?
    Hide the anti- phycotic meds your taken for yourself ( kids and adult meds dont mix )


  • #103
    CrazyRabbit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,659 ✭✭✭CrazyRabbit


    MCMLXXV wrote: »
    Thread is spiraling out of control! :eek::eek::eek:

    Shut up or I'll get my 8 year old child to kill you.


  • #104
    Logical Fallacy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,933 ✭✭✭Logical Fallacy


    I'd send him to college doing a Degree in Business Studies.

    CEO's and the like tend to score pretty close to Psychopath on the Hare Test.


  • #105
    subway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,131 ✭✭✭subway


    Thoughtcrime ftw!


  • #106
    lastlaugh
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    Akrasia wrote: »
    Psychopaths are people who are born without the capacity for empathy. They are extremely likely to grow up and commit some horrendous crimes. There is no cure. most psychopaths spend their lives in jail or a mental institution or are loose in society causing devastation to innocent people around them. If you were the parent of a 8 year old who you discovered was secretly torturing animals and displaying all the symptoms of being a psychopath, what would you do?

    I would get the best advise I possibly could, which I'm guessing would not be here in AH!
    flutterflye wrote: »
    Is it or is it not relevant that my son lacks empathy?
    What prey tell is the difference in technical terms?
    I have experience of the exact thing the op is referring to, and stating how I deal with it.
    The disorder is different, but both display this empathy deficit.
    What is your reason for believing that the two cannot be compared?

    I think the profound difference is that Autistics can feel empathy, they have difficulty understanding others feelings.

    A Psychopath cannot feel empathy for others, no matter what.
    Also, a Psycho would be able to mask their lack of empathy so others would not notice.
    wild_cat wrote: »
    Not all of them grow up to be killers. Some sit on the boards of the biggest companies in the world. Having no empathy also helps you climb the career ladder.
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2005/apr/18/medicineandhealth

    I would agree with the above.
    Also, I'm not sure if being a Psychopath aotomatically leads to a life of crime/slaughter or automatically makes them 'evil'. (Although a complete lack of empathy can't be too far removed from evil I guess)


  • #107
    flutterflye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,538 ✭✭✭flutterflye


    As far as I'm aware, my son cannot feel empathy.
    But I've had enough of this whole conversation tbh.


  • #108
    lastlaugh
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    flutterflye wrote: »
    As far as I'm aware, my son cannot feel empathy.
    But I've had enough of this whole conversation tbh.

    I'm not surprised at that.
    You have been treated very badly from what I have seen...


  • #109
    MrThrifty
    Registered Users Posts: 491 ✭✭MrThrifty


    Hmmm, don't know if the obvious has been stated but as far as I was aware psychopaths aren't really born that way at all. It's all to do with their upbringing, parenting, society etc. From what I recall, babies and very young children would be psychopathic in nature (only interested in themselves) - the issue is that some don't develop out of this phase. Parenting, parenting, parenting...


  • #110
    Bipolar Joe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭Bipolar Joe


    That's sociopathy, already been said.


  • #111
    Eric Cartman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,280 ✭✭✭✭Eric Cartman


    flutterflye wrote: »
    As far as I'm aware, my son cannot feel empathy.
    But I've had enough of this whole conversation tbh.

    its not all bad , he might become a decent businessman


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