If you could stop being a psychopath/sociopath, would you? Do you believe that as a psychopath/sociopath there are aspects of your neurological make up that is dysfunctional?
In answer to your first question... To want to change, you have to see something wrong with you. As far as I am concerned there's nothing wrong with me. Why fix what isn't broken.
As for your second question... Mental health issues run in my family, so there is a strong possibility that there is a genetic connection that has contributed to the way I am (my upbringing acted as the trigger to an already loaded gun so to speak). My father had mental health issues and was institutionalized before he killed himself, and I suspect my mother is a psychopath for a number of reasons.
Psychologically, I am similar to both of my parents in some ways.
I believe that regardless what label or tendency people have, as long as we resolve issues passed down from our parents and relations/generations that affect us psychologically; and as long as we forgive/let go of issues we cannot change, then we can reconcile the rest REGARDLESS if we change or not. Most of it is changing our perception; and yes, that does cause change in itself, but indirectly, in how we work with differences not necessarily changing those differences.
by MESSIAHIf you could stop being a psychopath/sociopath, would you? Do you believe that as a psychopath/sociopath there are aspects of your neurological make up that is dysfunctional?
I have been having that very same conversation in my head recently. I have found that I like the person I am but need to modify my behavior to gain greater control over my impulses. I read the following on here the other day
http://www.sociopathworld.com/2013/10/selfish-pleasure-pain-happy.html
and I realized that maybe I was in pursuit of pleasure so much that I was ignoring the potential for pain that the pleasure can bring. In answer to the question no I would not wish to change.
Do I think I triggered my daughter? No, but I do think I contributed to her antisocial behavior in school to some degree at least because I was a neglectful parent and I had a worse temper back then that frightened her.
At one stage I thought my daughter was going to eventually develop AsPD for sure with the stealing, lying and fighting that she was doing, but since I've started spending more time with her at home - home schooling her and playing games together occasionally, her behavior has improved.
I think it would be foolish to purposefully trigger my daughter. She's threatened to stab me once already (years ago) and while I don't believe she'd ever physically try it, I don't plan on pushing her to test that theory. I value my own life.
"What games?"
Board games, card games and computer games.
"So you think she'd succeed if she tried"
Only if she got me in my sleep, but she's not the kind of person that would ever do that anyway. Years ago, I may have thought differently. Then again, not really.
I found it amusing when she told me she wanted to stab me. I knew she'd never pick up the knife because my knife scared her and she knew better than to touch it.
I'm not anywhere near a classic empath, would I change it, hell no!
Where I am at, I see what others miss. I connect the dots when others cannot. It does mean that I can miss the obvious very easily because you cannot really be in two minds at once.
Feel empathy? Why? I've seen people crash and burn because they cared too much. Don't get me wrong, I care. I have ethics. I just don't have a burden of feeling your pain. It's a good thing. If I want to help, it makes me a better helper in many situations.
Seriously the only thing I would want to change about my neurological makeup is being more organized. I'm messy beyond belief. Some messiness is related to being creative, but when it gets too much it gets in the way of even creativity.