They say they don't feel emotion. But then how come they get fun out of killing people? |
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I have a deep fascination with psychopaths and have educated myself about them over the years. I have also encountered psychopaths and can perhaps help identify persons you might suspect are psychopaths. Shoot. |
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Surrender your flesh. We demand it.
They say they don't feel emotion. But then how come they get fun out of killing people? |
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Whatever happens~
I was gonna make this thread |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
I was just typing out a huge reply to your question, DarkComrade, but I accidentally clicked the back button on my mouse and my reply got lost. I am not motivated to re-write the whole thing. |
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Surrender your flesh. We demand it.
Thanks for the answer both of you, I wondered about this pretty long. Not really finding the answer I just figured they were completly dead inside filling it with such doings as killing and the like |
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Something I'd like to add is that the condition of psychopathy may in fact be a part of the reason why harsher punishments do not deter violent crimes. To a psychopath, the threat of punishment means nothing to them due to their dysfunctional amygdala. |
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Surrender your flesh. We demand it.
An experiment performed back when electric shocks were still legal had psycho and non-psycho subjects hook up to EEG machines. The Examiner would count down from ten then shock the subject and for both groups there was not much reaction until anxiety levels sky-rocketed during the shock. Then the examiner would repeat the procedure and non-psychos anxiety levels peaked before the actual shock while psychos showed no change until the shock came again. |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
A friend of mine told me that psychopaths might be recognised by their speech, but didn't explain. What the features are of a psychopath's speech? |
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I would say no, there's not much to distinguish the two based on how they talk. There are many problems that can lead to a socially dysfunctional personality and sociopaths usually do not appear dysfunctional. Maybe Black Eagle knows more (hate to jump in on his thread like this) but the truth is sociopaths are usually the last people you suspect because they become so good at mimicking human behavior and they're so socially fearless that they actually come off more charismatic than average people. They don't have to deal with anxiety disorder to even the smallest degree so they aren't burdened by natural human shyness. |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
Am I a psychopath? |
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake
How vividly can you dream? |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
Extremely vivid |
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake
Do you get nervous before injections, riding up roller coasters, talking to strangers or other scary events? |
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Last edited by Omnis Dei; 11-30-2011 at 06:46 AM.
Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
How do psycopaths express themselfes except for murdering someone? |
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glib and superficial charm |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
When you are an average person (no mental problems) can you still develope anti-social personality disorder turning into psychopathy like you can develope schizotypal personality disorder turning into schizophrenia anytime in your life? |
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Check this out: IAmA Clinically Diagnosed Sociopath. AMAA. : IAmA |
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Surrender your flesh. We demand it.
Not really. When the amygdala develops, that's it. It's almost like asking if someone can go back to being prepubescent. But your amygdala can become desensitized and sort of shut down from intense situations. An easy example of this is a soldier in combat but another less obvious example are those hotlines that work for those shock-talk shows but market themselves like help-lines for people with emotional problems. The stuff they hear all day on the phone is so depressing if your amygdala were functioning normally you would kill yourself. They use humor as a defense mechanism to generate distance between them and subject material. If you listened to these people talk about their callers, you would think they were the sickest bunch of freaks ever born. |
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Last edited by Omnis Dei; 12-07-2011 at 06:49 AM.
Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
In theory one could become a psychopath if the amygdala were catastrophically damaged. But I doubt one could become a psychopath without brain damage. It is possible to be brought up in a manner that obscures social learning and instead places emphasis on machiavellianism and individualism, but I would think that would result in only narcissism. Granted, psychopaths are narcissists, but narcissists who aren't psychopaths lack that particular bit of dysfunctionality that would make them psychopaths. In fact, now that I think about it, narcissism is probably the closest an individual can get to becoming psychopathic. |
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Surrender your flesh. We demand it.
Honestly I'm more on the research side of things and haven't dealt with many, certainly none that I considered dangerous. I've only ever met one person (former roommate) who made enough slips to show that every ounce of empathy they had for people was fake. I tend to give people the benefit of the doubt. It's a LOT easier to pick out a narcissist because of their general inability to accept responsibility but psychopaths are tacticians and predators and will say anything as long as it proves useful, including humbling themselves before others. A narcissist is usually less apt at developing fake empathy because their unconscious social behavior developed by the amygdala gets in the way. They simply view everything as an attack against them. They are distinct psychoses but they share a few symptoms, such as an inability to accept responsibility. The reason they are distinct is because they have two different causes. |
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Last edited by Omnis Dei; 12-09-2011 at 10:00 PM.
Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
I too have a interest in psychopaths(more of the Serial Killer type though) but I'm wondering do they understand Right from Wrong? Do they fear less than normal humans or more? Any known "symptoms" to identify a psychopath? |
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Omnis, come back to us! |
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What differs between a Psychopath and a Sociopath? |
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