Thursdays with NAMI: What Is Psychopathy? - 7 p.m. December 16, 2021
Psychopathy is a mental disorder that affects 1% of the population. It is characterized by personality traits that include reduced empathy and remorse, a bold and daring personality, and difficulty controlling behavior.
Because they cannot feel guilt or remorse, it’s easier to fall into behaviors that are considered antisocial. People with psychopathy may deceive, manipulate, threaten, steal from, or physically harm others. At the same time, they may seem outwardly friendly and well adjusted.
One mother described her feelings while raising a teenager with the condition:
• Verbally attacked - by my child, sometimes in front of other people
• Tearful, confused, flustered, and anxious
• Afraid, sad, and angry (in that order)
• Misunderstood by people who hadn’t experienced a child like mine
• Shamed (by my child) and ashamed (of my child)
• Blamed by others
• Alone
Fortunately, psychopathy is treatable, and support is available for both peers and loved ones. Join us for a conversation about this difficult brain disease. Psychologist/neuroscientist Dr. Abigail Marsh is a professor at Georgetown University and the author of The Fear Factor: How One Emotion Connects Altruists, Psychopaths, and Everyone In-Between. Lisa Michael got involved with the Psychopathy community due to her extensive experience with family members who have the disorder. She is a physics teacher at Summit Denali High School in California. Together they formed an organization called Psychopathy Is to educate the public and offer support.
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What a heart wrenching and perplexing thing to realize your child has these traits and to deal with the abuse. I realize my brother had these issues. Indeed we all knew that he was prone to stealing g and lying but had no idea what he was truly capable of later in life in terms of stealing, fraud, financial abuse etc. it is for sure comforting to hear others insights and experiences, but it’s sad as well
So I just want to add here. She has mentioned twice that other children in a family doing fine is evidence that the parents are not to blame. I just want to suggest that in future you may want ( or Dr. Marsh) may want to dig deeper with that as evidence. Give more clarity as most of us who have some knowledge about child abuse know that often an abusive parent picks a scapegoat to bully and another child as a golden child, so it’s unclear to me how one child being OK and another having behavior issues is evidence that this is entirely heritable. There are many families that have very well concealed emotional abusers.
Is there evidence that the child programs are effective across other disorders that have challenging child externalizing behaviours, eg FASDs? Dr Marsh mentioned other countries that help for child-parent violence but didn't specify them? So many questions about how secondary psychopathy presents and comorbidity. I hope you could interview again. The parent abandoned their safety boundary, and I wish they had a reminder within the interview especially since facial recognition is a thing.
WHY CAN'T THIS GET MORE VIEWS?????❕️‼️❗️❓️⁉️❔️❕️❕️
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