thesensitivechild
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Bump!! I mean Durkheim!
it is ! I can only understand how it feels to be suicidal
i disagree. It means he feels like an outsider and feels he can't build interpersonal relationships, that's all. This feature alone is far from enough to diagnose sociopathy. The sociopathy conclusion based on this point alone is way too quick because such symptom is found in too many mental illnesses.
This feature can be found in soooo many mental illnesses, not only sociopathy. Major depressive disorder coupled with adhd, or aspergers, can make you feel this way. Keep in mind that knowledge about adhd, or asd, was not as advanced as nowadays. Still, there are currently so many more questions than answers. But in those days, adhd and asd knowledge, to name just a few, was at its embryonic stage.
The whole text is inconsistent with sociopathy actually. If he was truly sociopath, he wouldn't have had the slightest consideration for his parents' feelings. He took his life because he had excessive consciousness. Excessive consciousness doesn't fit sociopathy at all.
In those days, psychoanalysis was still the dominant schooling of psychiatry and psychology. So, based on his knowledge to psychology in those days, he understood this. Cbt was discovered only in the 80, so not at the time he committed suicide.
For the historical context, this sentence is not that odd actually. If it were written nowadays, it'd had been a whole other ballgame.
It doesn't fit the picture of sociopathic personality. Actually, the 180° opposite.
He feels soooo remorseful towards his parents that he feels the only way out is suicide.
If he was sociopathic, he wouldn't have had the slightest consideration.
Actually, people with impulse phobia can commit suicide because of thoughts of doing something immoral. In their mind, the simple thought of doing something immoral equals doing it. The distress is so intense because in their own system of value, it's absolutely immoral to do it.
Impulse phobia of pedophilia is being so afraid of being a pedo that you prefer killing yourself than thinking about a child because attraction to children is so repulsive.
The difference between impulse phobia and pedophilia is big, but based on a small detail. Impulse phobia brings distress at the simple thought of being a pedophile, while actual pedophilia brings pleasure. Impulse phobia of pedophilia brings such great distress at the simple thought of being a pedo that you can take your own life.
More about on this link : http://www.ocduk.org/types-ocd
Same but I feel very sorry the guy.... I know how it feels to think of taking your own life. I've been there before.This one haunts me
Same but I feel very sorry the guy.... I know how it feels to think of taking your own life. I've been there before.
Unsure if this has been posted, have sometime an open TP archive account adding as many articles to MP/UID's as I can find
Times Picayune Article - 06/17/75
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Very very tru...That is so very sad how deeply unworthy he felt. He didn't want anyone to be in pain over his death....yet I am !! I wonder if we could possibly figure out who this young man was. I know I am moved to do what I can just to know he was worth so much more than he ever believed.
I feel that this guy was a full blown psychopath and knew there was something very wrong and different about him from a young age.
"False and empty reality", "no ties to family or friends"....etc.
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With all due respect those are things i would have put in a suicide note before I had my mental illness under control and im no psychopath. Depression can cause those things too, false empty feeling and pulling away from everyone. Being suicidal and deppressed could easily cause someone to cut ties and distance themselves because they didnt want to hurt them. I know I did.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Sex | Male |
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Race | White |
Location | Belle Chasse, Louisiana |
Found | February 14, 1975 |
Unidentified for | 41 years |
Postmortem interval | Unknown |
Body condition | Unknown |
Age approximation | 16-17 |
Height approximation | 6'0 |
Weight approximation | 160 |
Cause of death | Hanging |