true. A psychopath has to want to change. Here lies the problem. Can we have them involuntary committed?
in reality in any of the personality DO there is little desire to change -- change into what
the core notion regarding any personality disorder--are there pervasive and enduring ways of looking and experiencing the world around them
there is not anything to change to -- it is what the individual knows, and their responses and perceptions of the world around is well just IS.
Its like breathing - it happens - automatically
Therapy can afford insight - but in truth - the PD are not treatable entities
imo the diagnosis is actually more helpful in terms of a clinician using the charactertics and ways people get there needs met , and the problems they experiance while living
I kinda think that because they are diagnosed it gives an illusion obe being treatment -- they are not - it is the only way the person knows how to be
moo
I think from the onset that is why (and still is ) my want to understand what Axis 1 stuff he was suffering which ended the way it did
Was he paranoid
Delusional - what were the themes of his delusional thinking
was he hearing command hallucinations
was there a visual component to his hallucinations
manifestations of religiosity
inner torment based on family interactions as it relates specifically to religion
drugs
We can comfortably believe he was anti social - but that does not really answer any specific questions regarding last Sunday does it?
That in and of itself IMO wont
We need IMO the neurotransmitter angle of his mental issues
It is like IMO Holmes, much was answered when it became clear that he was the joker that night.
That is what the Joker was -- mean and cruel and must kill
at some level that does put that night into some context as to why what happened that night
he was the joker....
same kind of thing with planned parenthood -- he was saving children, in his mind
Elliot overtly took the way people around him responded to him as rejection.
When the reality was people responded the way they did to him is because Aspergers results in peculiar interactions with other socially- it makes other uncomfortable.
A dear friend of mine son is autistic - and when Taylor was having a particularly difficult day in public when people looked we explained that he was autistic-- in 99% of the instances the stareing, the whispering, the fear often vanished and was replaced with empathy and compassionate for Taylor Judy and myself.
Back to church tradegy
was he god
was he the devil
were people after him
was god telling him to kill these people
it is moo but a tiff with a MIL does not explain much at all to me
there were imo neurotransmitters amuck - but how did those misfirings result in what happened when it happened when it did
Hopefully if ever discovered, the nature of threats, their context , and meaning to him - (specifically) might be really helpful in sorting out some of the above. \\moo