Alot of you would say I’m a Psychopath. Honestly I was close. But even in 04 and 05 I had regrets about what i was doing. Yes I did relish the emotional hell I caused people. But I always did feel regrets. I still do. So I think it’s 50/50 that a sociopath can change. As for myself, I think, I know I’ve changed alot. Don’t get me wrong. There is still those moments when all the anger and rage return and I think fuck it all. It’s easy to fall back into sociopathic thinking and behavior. I know love and empathy. I’m very capable of expressing both genuinely. If i were a Psychopath I wouldn’t be capable of either. Nor would I be enterested in either.
-Brent Brents 11-2-14
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If i were a Psychopath
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Can a sociopath change?
Ok so Can a sociopath change? I think yes. But Not completely. We are capable of remorse even empathy. But It really takes being stripped of ones inadaqusies and bitterness. Rage and hatred.
Unlike psychopaths, Sociopaths have morals and rules they follow. Me I consider friendships sacred. And I would do any thing for my true friends. I don’t think most Sociopaths love themselves very much. So friendships are important means of finding and supplying themselves with love.
Ultimately we have to learn to love ourselves. Face the uncomfortable things we often bring upon ourselves. And face the violence we’ve committed upon others. A psychopath relishes the violence and pain they cause. As Sociopaths we might be assholes. But sooner or later we experience change.
-Brent Brents 11-2-14
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troubled children turning into psychopathic adults
A reader sent the following comment to this website today in response to the post “Can You Nip a Budding Psychopath in the Bud?”–regarding the story recently published in The New York Times Magazine about children being diagnosed as psychopaths:
I saw this article about psychopathic children and did not have an opportunity to read it until your link to it. It is quite the article and am glad I was able to read it.
As I read through the comments I noted that, as I myself thought, many did not agree that there would be no support for a mother of a psychopathic child. I thought that was a very interesting conclusion by the author.
Thanks again Amy for pointing out information in regard to troubled children turning into psychopathic adults and what is being learned to try to help them and maybe prevent more children from turning into psychopaths.
Mary
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Is It Possible to Nip a Budding Psychopath in the Bud?
“Can You Call a 9-Year-Old a Psychopath?”
-That’s the title of a disturbing and yet fascinating piece that ran in the New York Times magazine on May 11, which I’m including the link to, below.
The 9-year-old in question is the oldest son of a Florida couple, and the details of his behavior–enraged one moment, chillingly calm the next while threatening a younger brother–make for a pretty good case that he’s a fledgling psychopath.
That in itself raises many questions: Is the term “psychopath” an unfair and dangerous label to put on a child? Or is it more dangerous to downplay callous, unemotional behavior that research shows is likely genetic in origin?
The age of the boy in the story strikes me as a sad coincidence–Brent Brents has often told me by that his own estimation, his “brain was broken” by age 9. What if someone had recognized his potential for violence when he was a child? Would intervention have changed him and therefore prevented the pain of all his victims?
Researchers are hoping that by identifying psychopathic tendencies early enough in a child, he or she can be helped–which can hopefully prevent that child from becoming an adult who is incapable of empathy yet also capable of inflicting great harm on others.
Or as one person in the piece said:
“You have to hope that’s true. Otherwise, what are we stuck with? These monsters.”
Here’s the story:
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Diary of a Predator 