Unfortunately it's verified with 15 hours of professional testing. There are a lot of words that could describe him, the most fall under the criteria for personality disorders!
Then, I'm very glad for your sake that he's your ex.
Unfortunately it's verified with 15 hours of professional testing. There are a lot of words that could describe him, the most fall under the criteria for personality disorders!
That is the thing, Casey isn't crazy.
ALL people afflicted by antisocial personality disorder don't kill their children. While emotionally an APD is empty toward others, killing is a conscious, deliberate act. Like stealing.
"Dexter" the stereotypical sociopath has the ability to pick and choose his victims. He is also lies and passes among his peers without notice. Just like Casey did.
You can fix a chemical imbalance or modify behavior. But, how can you make a mother who feels no more connection to her dead daughter than most would have toward an annoying gnat, have remorse?
How do you get someone to have feelings that don't exist?
Bold is mine.
It's not her suspected personality disorder that defines her as evil. It's her actions and the way these actions are perceived in our culture.
An evil person doesn't see himself as evil but his victims do. They don't victimize others because they are evil but do so because, as you say, they simply do not care if someone else is hurt. They have an agenda and it doesn't matter who is hurt in the process. IOW, they don't wake up in the morning and say "I'm evil; who can I be mean to today or kill". They don't go around trying to be mean or killing people. It happens though because they are evil.
Take, for example, Hitler. He wouldn't define himself as evil. He would say he was trying to make the world a better place. He didn't go around trying to be mean or kill people. But he did. He killed millions. He probably had a personality disorder too. I don't know of anyone who wouldn't define Hitler as evil. So was he or wasn't he?
His personality disorder didn't make him evil. He didn't view himself as evil and go around trying to be mean; he was trying to better the world. The thing is he simply didn't care if others were hurt; he was only concerned with himself and his agenda (making the world better). He did not have empathy. All the same, he was evil personified. Ask anyone.
KC didn't go around trying to be mean or killing people but she was mean, she victimized many with no regard for their feelings, and she murdered her daughter. She was only concerned with herself. These are evil acts committed by an evil person, KC. Whether she had a personality disorder or not she was evil. Ask her victims.
I'm the first vote and I'll give my reason: for her to just sit there alone, she is allowed to exist in her own world and answer to no one. Make her see a counselor... one that will not BS around and will try to work to make Casey understand what she has done. One that will stay on her tail about facing up to the truth of the matter. Will it help save her, though... find some ounce of human in her? who knows... but at least she will be made to face it... not be left to to her own world.
Neurotics build castles in the sky..psychotics live in them..and Cindy Anthony cleans them.
____________________________-Do you want Casey to receive counseling while in jail?
if you want my complete candor then here it is:
i don't want casey to receive oxygen while in jail
If Casey gets life without the possibility of parole, then I don't see the point to counseling. If there's a chance that she'll get out and rejoin the population some day, then yes she definitely should have it - for the sake of the rest of us out here in the world.
I've always heard "THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE" but I honestly believe in the case of the Anthonys that "THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOUR BUTT IN JAIL!"
Do you want Casey to receive counseling while in jail?
if you want my complete candor then here it is:
i don't want casey to receive oxygen while in jail
That would be a "waste, a total waste"
I do want her to receive counseling! I am not trying at all to stand up for her innocence, but just her rights as an American citizen: this being that a person is "INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY." Let's face it, there's a great likelyhood that she IS guilty, but we are not her jury & she hasn't gone to trial yet.
What she is so far is a suspect, and a mother who has lost a child. I'm a mother to 3 gorgeous little boys. If something happened to them, you'd better bring in a handful of therapists! Plus maybe a straight-jacket & some heavy drugs, because I would be a complete mess.
As a mother I would appeal for her to have counseling provided. Whether she can appreciate it or can be benefited by it is her own problem.