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?

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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.

LILY61

@WillaKissing thank you, but why do you think that is?

WillaKissing · 56-60, M

@LILY61 Because I chose as an individual not to be like my father "Violent" towards my children and I chose not to raise them in a violent childhood. I personally made the choice not to repeat the sins of my father as the Bible says, and I have chosen to live in God's light not the devil's ways that's why.

We are the only animals on earth given the ability to choose and not to act on instinct like animals do with Prey/Predator Procreation/Survival.

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

WillaKissing · 56-60, M

@LILY61 I am sorry for all you went through, that should never happen honestly.

swirlie · 31-35

@LILY61

but they still ruined my life

How did they ruin your life?

LILY61

@WillaKissing thank you

LILY61

@swirlie i was taken when i was 4. i was abused seriously from that moment. i ran away in the middle of the night and the police took me home immediately. to my kidnapper's home. They told me not to do this again or i would be as dead as my family.

i went to school....was lied about there. i only had friends that my mother picked out for me and they were always vile and sick people . my life was horrible and then i started to try to kill myself. no one listened to me. they had all been lied to about me or threatened if they tried to help me or be nice to me. i had no one.

if i got engaged they were lied to about me. if i had a job, they were lied to about me. i am almost always alone.

i swear to you. I have never done anything to anyone in my life. i am the nicest person that ever lived. i always thought that i had this terrible life because i was suppose to use this to make this a better world. but if no one shows you respect and you can't go to college and you can't get people to listen to you then there is no helping or changing anything. so i am done with helping anyone.

And i don't believe in God anymore!

swirlie · 31-35

@LILY61
Okay, so you just told me how they ruined your life, now tell me how you fixed your life after all that happened?

WillaKissing · 56-60, M

@LILY61 You are quite welcome Luv!💐❤