Are Some Psychopaths Deeply Emotional? (New Study)

Why would a person with clearly impaired empathy be So fond of labeling others as this omnious psychopath?

If the poor thing still moves after your little treatment, you have encountered insurmountable obstacle and forget how to look at things objectively. It simply must be the case of psychopath! !! Is this process ego derivative? The world should indulge in a similar backward caste system as yours is?

CallMe12 wrote:

caspin wrote:I know a guy who you call a psychopath, he have never said to me that he has anxiety but still he takes a light form of anxiety medicine. Atarax.

How do you know he is a psychopath, he has done brain scans?

You have to ask him.

Nobody is immune to fear, sadness, depression, stress, whatever.

Psychopaths, however, are much less emotional than nons. They still experience those emotions, just not as strongly. A psychopath would break too given sufficient stress, their breaking point is much higher than the average person. That doesn't mean they're happier or living an enviable life, you could argue that a life without love is bland.

Nasty_Boy wrote:Nobody is immune to fear, sadness, depression, stress, whatever.

Psychopaths, however, are much less emotional than nons. They still experience those emotions, just not as strongly. A psychopath would break too given sufficient stress, their breaking point is much higher than the average person. That doesn't mean they're happier or living an enviable life, you could argue that a life without love is bland.

Indeed.

Nasty_Boy wrote:Nobody is immune to fear, sadness, depression, stress, whatever.
Psychopaths, however, are much less emotional than nons. They still experience those emotions, just not as strongly.

I don't know if your comment distinguishes between AsPD and psychopathy (and I do think the article mixes the terms), but I'd agree that those with AsPD are not immune to emotions. They are there. But they are inaccessible for the most part. They've been 'cut off' and may not be experienced such that they are recognized and noted as an emotion -- the cut off can be that quick -- and can be perfected early on to the point where it seems that that emotion is non-existent.

After all, PDs are defense mechanisms. What does that mean? And how completely has one's constructed personality defended against former pain?

A psychopath would break too given sufficient stress, their breaking point is much higher than the average person.

This is an interesting point, and an accurate one if we're talking about AsPD. It is interesting to see how many supposedly AsPD/psychopathic people 'break' in prison from that stress. Though few will admit to what they consider emotional weakness, it is telling how many succumb to the physiological indicators of unmanageable stress.

That doesn't mean they're happier or living an enviable life, you could argue that a life without love is bland.

Bland. A good word for the pervasive boredom that those diagnosable with AsPD experience. There is a price to pay for being cut off from a wider range of emotions.

The movie American Psycho happened to be on just last night. And I was thinking out loud, how highly narcissistic Bateman would likely suffer tremendously if something were to take away his particular appearance, money, girls, status...
But someone normal would be uneffected, or recover quickly. Is this how you're working with the braking point theory?

Sixoclock0 wrote:The movie American Psycho happened to be on just last night. And I was thinking out loud, how highly narcissistic Bateman would likely suffer tremendously if something were to take away his particular appearance, money, girls, status...
But someone normal would be uneffected, or recover quickly. Is this how you're working with the braking point theory?

A normal human as you call it would suffer too.

Average.

Stable self-esteem and ego is generally not based on external stimuli.

Eight wrote:

Nasty_Boy wrote:

That doesn't mean they're happier or living an enviable life, you could argue that a life without love is bland.

Bland. A good word for the pervasive boredom that those diagnosable with AsPD experience. There is a price to pay for being cut off from a wider range of emotions.

I would argue that this is only true when you have a basis for comparison.

I don't consider life to be "bland." In fact, I've done, and continue to do, more than most people. How can life be bland when there are so many things you can do? It's a lot more interesting than the alternative.

However, I've never had the capacity to feel any different. Maybe if I'd been born with the normal facility to "feel love" the same as the majority then I would understand what's gone but I find that hard to believe.

Love just seems to complicate a simple process and can work just as much against you as it can for your benefit.

While I'm not a very emotional person, my anger can be overwhelmingly intense. I also experience intense restlessness resulting from boredom or frustration.