How to leave a psychopath

[moriah]

70. Many times, especially for lower functioning people with antisocial personality disorder....

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Substance abuse is co-morbid.

My father was more than just a pot-smoking mama's boy who wouldn't get off the couch, but that's how he started out. He was a textbook case of Conduct Disorder as a child and teenager (though he loved animals and did not bedwet or set fires, though he liked watching them a lot), sent to a "training school" for chronic truancy where he was raped by multiple inmates, let out when he promised he'd go back to school (the kids trained him all right, told him how to sell drugs) and "taught what it was all about" by a neighbor lady at 12.

By the time he was 20, he had no respect whatsoever for the law, and no respect at all for the government's money -- he would, if he had been able to do so, defraud for anything he could get, especially when he needed to get high. He met all of the DSM-IV criteria for Antisocial Personality Disorder.

Would I recommend anyone date him? Not in a heartbeat, I begged my mother never to get back with him.

Would he kill someone he was in love with? No. Did he have a conscience, did he love me? Yes, as much as it was possible.

I think that the development of the conscience and pro-social behavior will be determined to be a spectrum.