sissi said:I like that label, "micropsychotic". In looking it up, and yeah, I had to, it appears these little episodes occur less frequently as one ages, so darn..darn..she would likely be symptom free by now. Eight years removed from a possible diagnosis! Patsy gets away again!
Likely I will now be overusing this new found (on my part) word, as until now I called what I see "adult temper tantrums". When a child wants something that he can't have, or wants a situation to be what it can't reasonably be, he can shout ,lay on the floor, hold his breath or whatever he needs to do to try to force the adults to play by his rules. My son-in-law, a sociopath/pd mongrel type, has these tantrums often, he gets an idea in his head, acts out, often criminally, puts the blame on his victim de jour, never has the need to feel remorse because the whole action was/is someone elses fault. While I have always seen these episodes as "adult temper tantrums", I see this guy will now have a psychiatric defense when he finally kills someone, a "micropsychotic episode". Sounds like a month of r&r due him at the local institution, poor guy.
Ours will get the break, he has a history of these behaviors, assault, domestic violence, property destruction, and on, so likely his has built a defense with years of these "micropsychotic" episodes.
Poor Patsy, BM, considering she has only a disassociative personality disorder ya' think she just had one little episode, that nasty one where Jonbenet died?
sissi,
You're back! Haven't seen you around much lately. How does this son-in-law of yours manage to stay out of the pokey? From the way you describe him, he's a prime candidate for three hots and a cot.
Microspychotic? I just made that up. heh, heh You don't mean to say there's really such a phenomenon? Wouldn't I make a great psychiatrist!
While we're not on the subject, what's your opinion of Jeffry MacDonald, with respect to his guilt or innocence? I can see I'm going to have to review that "Fatal Vision" case, because I faintly recollect another neat (cool these days) term that the mind scientists came up with to describe his behavior. It wasn't sociopath, but something close to that. Evidently, if you believe the psychopathologists, these anti-socials (that's the new term) can function well in society, are usually gifted, are apt to be overachievers (whatever that means) and see the rest of us (extremely psychologically well) folks as stepping stones to their success and nothing more. In short, they use people; have no conscience. I have no doubt there are at least a few folks like that roaming around out there--the predators. I think I've met one or two in my long sojourn.
Dissociative personality? Well, now I've learned a new term. Tit for tat. Is that anything like multiple personality? Are any of Patsy's alleged psychological problems well documented? Or, are we assuming that because we "KNOW" she killed her kid, she must be as fruity as a pineapple upsidedown cake? Or, if she's just covering for Burke, maybe she's not quite that fruity; maybe more like the single cherry in a whole can of fruit cocktail?
On the subject of psychology in general, there's a fellow by the name of Szats (SP?) who is himself a psychologist who says most "mental illness" is not illness at all. And there's another fellow by the name of Laing (or Laying) who asks, "In adjusting to the mad whole, does not a well person become really [genuinely] sick?"
It has always amused me (a lay person, if not a Laing person) that we refer to folks as psychologically this or psychologically that or he has a psychological problem, etc. Now, if you parse the term and define it literally, you are saying that so-and-so has a study-of-the-mind problem. What on earth does that mean? I think to be correct, we should say he has a psyche problem. Psychology purports to study the psyche---an invisible source of behavioral manifestations. The less visible something is, the more comfortably we can speculate about it.
But, I digress....now, if you overuse this new-found term, there is probably a disorder in the diagnostic manual (the psychiatrists' bible) that applies to your condition. Watch out for a "group of individuals" in white coats, rushing in your direction.
And, top o' the mornin' to ya....