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What makes a psychopath a psychopath?

seriously. i have read all of the nonsense literary salad of analysis on why someone goes crazy. but i want to know your opinion.
the first 4 years of my life, i was Appalachian, then i was moved to Cincy. Cincy....where hopefully no one knows your name....where if you didn't belong to some cult and behave like a gang member, you were the outcast.

the family that raised me were drunks druggies perverts and murderers and so were all their friends and relatives. and all the kids i went to school with. and i was ostracized. i never did drugs, my drinking was laughable, and i smoked because being in a smoky room drove me nuts unless i was smoking. i didn't sleep around.

i was nice nice nice....and all people did was attack me and lie about me. Why do i have no wish to murder and destroy people?

Why was i never a pervert or weirdo? i don't even cut or steal....am i not human?



See...these are the things we need to understand to keep these school shootings from happening.... what is it that makes the difference?
LILY61
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WillaKissing · 56-60, M
I was raised violently and had a beautiful heart and soul, I turned my rage and anger into a military career and saw the worst of what man can and has done on this earth. I chose not to be like the evil hateful terrible people, I did my job, and I live with my scars/PTSD, but I never passed that onto my children.

They were taught love and compassion, and I am who I am today because I chose differently.
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LILY61
@WillaKissing thank you. i also had chosen at a very young age to read constantly about mental illnesses and decided that i would not be like them. but they still ruined my life
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WillaKissing · 56-60, M
@LILY61 I am sorry for all you went through, that should never happen honestly.
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swirlie · 31-35
@LILY61
but they still ruined my life

How did they ruin your life?
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OlderSometimesWiser · F
Fascinating question and I’m always interested in learning more about psychopathy. I believe that fundamentally the answer lies in the brain and that psychopaths have brains that are just wired differently. Hopefully scientists will continue studying the brain and get to a point that will be useful in somehow changing the trajectory of psychopathic behavior. But I fear that time is a long way off.
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LILY61
@OlderSometimesWiser sad isn't it? it could end so many issues
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WillaKissing · 56-60, M
You were born with a beautiful heart and soul. The folks you referenced were not and attacked/insulted you because they were born with bad hearts and souls.

I am not saying they cannot change, it is that they do not want to change or to alter their life's path/destiny.

As far as school shootings I do not know how you stop a psychopath one they decide to act, they are the same as any famous serial killer with no one knowing about them until after they have acted out their deadly plan unfortunately.
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LILY61
@WillaKissing thanks
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Pretzel · 70-79, M
wow...that's so weird....

I've seen families be good - seriously nice and decent people.

And others...seems like almost everyone in the family belongs in jail.

The only thing I can say is maybe you had a recessive gene
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LILY61
@Pretzel so you think there is a sane gene? that would be interesting.

and you are lucky. usually when i met a family that seemed all nice and good....it wasn't and i found out years later....or i was too young to understand what was going on at such a young age... and then figured it out later
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Pretzel · 70-79, M
@LILY61 I have been blessed to find wonderful people - including my own extended family - I never realized the depth of depravity and evil until the last couple of decades.

and when I think I've heard it all - someone drops the door a little lower

sanity gene? not sure

evil gene? I think there must be. and the combination of nature and nurture produces beings that should be taken down like a rabid dog.
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MoveAlong · 70-79, M
It has been determined that true psychopaths have brain abnormalities not a mental illness. Psychopaths cannot experience empathy, love, remorse, hate and other emotions sometimes even fear.

Most killers, even serial killers can experience love and often feel remorse for their actions. They are just criminals who choose to disregard the norms of life. Many had rough and dysfunctional upbringings and many did not. It is very hard to predict how a person will turn out based on their past.
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SomeMichGuy · M
Lack of connection in a sympathetic or empathetic way with others; our natural srlf-centeredness gone awry.
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LILY61
@SomeMichGuy agreed but why?
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Carla · 61-69, F
Brain chemistry.
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LILY61
@Carla could be
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Adstar · 56-60, M
The inability to empathize with other peoples emotions, An inability to experience some emotions..
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Adstar · 56-60, M
@LILY61
@Adstar i fear that others who are too young or mentally unstable will watch it and think that means that if they take a hammer to their father that they too can come out of it free and okay if they claim that they have found Jesus.

Well in the video He revels how He suffered imprisonment and other suffering because of His twisted volence and mental state.. And that's why i would say to anyone who watches the video to watch it till the end.. Also He has to live with the knowledge that His dad suffers mental damage because of what he did.. Can you imagine what it must be like to have that on your shoulders for the rest of your life..

this guy , if he is for real, is out of his mind...and always will be.

But it also shows that even the most mentally scared people can still lead a controlled life in this world.. If you take the position that psychos are forever violent and dangerous and that they have no hope and society has no hope because they exist then that is a far darker and more frightening position to believe..

His video is real because he is a ""nut Job"" a now self controlled ""nut Job"" thanks to the LORD Jesus..

You should look upon his like any other person with development problems that can be counciled or treated with medicines to control their condition..
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LILY61
@Adstar he doesn't go through anything....this is all malarkey or he is a psychopath which means he feels nothing.
and if i had known you were a Jesus freak i wouldn't have started this with you.

God's don't have children with mortals... there are no gods. Jesus was strung up with the others and then they were removed from the crosses and alot of them lived including Jesus. and Jesus was not his name . it was the group. he was taken care of the three days in question and then got up and was seen wandering around. then he went off with his wife, Mary and they had kids and a life... the end
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Adstar · 56-60, M
@LILY61 Ok so now i know something else was going on with you.. Your rejection of God is the reason you cannot continue to watch the video and it has nothing to do with the guy being a psycopath..
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Sidewinder · 36-40, M
Nature, or nurture?
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MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M
Few are psychopaths, but many are sociopaths. That's when you learn psychopathic tendencies from a traumatizing environment.
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Adstar · 56-60, M
@LILY61 They appear very similar to other people.. But one of the main differences is that psyco's are born Sociaopaths are made..
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MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M
@LILY61 The difference is that one is incapable of feeling empathy even if they try or want to, and the other has learned to not feel it when it suits them. If you wonder like biologically, it's unknown, but like I said with sociopaths it stems from trauma and selfishness.
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LILY61
@MartinTheFirst okay, good points
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RisingMorningStar7 · 36-40, M
You jeed to ban guns but then there will be a knife wielding psycho, but you have a better chance defending against someone with a knife than a gun.
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LILY61
@RisingMorningStar7 so you are saying that what ever the cause, we need to ban guns?
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RisingMorningStar7 · 36-40, M
@LILY61 yup, if when it comes to revolution a foreign country will always supply the weapons. Thats why im not really for the second amendment.
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LILY61
@RisingMorningStar7 i personally hate the second amendment ....NO GUNS!
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