is it heridetary?????

by PQ » Mon Dec 18, 2006 12:16 pm

JamieJ23 wrote:That's a good question.

It wouldnt be selective empathy as that provide's the idea of an option.

Yet where there used to be none as in the case of your quoting me(and at that time i would of been a perfect example of a psychopath) i'd think i have some now. As someone suggested to me recently i have a leaning more then a PD. And i couldnt disagree, i simply feel to much, which is apparent .

Yet that dosent make sense to me because you cannot develope empathy. It's either there or it isnt. As i stated in the post your quoting from i have about as much insight into me as the next guy.

By flipping emotions i was refuring to rage. Calm with a smile until in the right setting. Then blinding rage. At all time's i felt nothing. I only remember anger, lust and indifference. And i was incredibly impulsive. I woke up a 5AM one morning and on a whim decided to set the house of fire with my family asleep inside. I then walked to school rehearsing my reaction when i would be pulled out of class and told the new's. But i was young and didnt stick around and the fire didnt catch, thankfully.

So i do think i have empathy, and i wont deny that it isnt as strong as it could be. But conscience, I have absolutly none. But i'm no sadist either. I think people tend to associate lack of conscience with sadism.

Having empathy but no conscience is very unique. From the frontal lobe damage, I assume.

The selective empathy hit me like a brick. I can say things that sociopaths would say. On the other hand, I can offer empathy. I never feel guilt unless someone quite literally says face to face with me "How could you have done <this>?"

Any insight?

from the dual diagnosis page: "Akhtar (1992, p. 259) notes that the current description of HPD corresponds to the previous idea of an infantile personality. These individuals had few sexual inhibitions, were impulsive, experienced identity diffusion and emotional lability, and demonstrated what the author referred to as moral defects."

i found an article published in 1948 describing the infantile personality. although maybe not state of the science in all aspects anymore, i like this paper as it uses clear words describing the infantile or histrionic personality (disorder).

here is the link:

http://www.psychosomaticmedicine.org/cg ... /3/134.pdf

is it heridetary?????

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