Psychopathy – 9:56pm Monday 30th June 2025
Psychopathy – 9:56pm Monday 30th June 2025
An article came to my inbox recently and mentioned a brain study of people with the psychopath diagnosis.
I had to search for the article today and noticed a few other interesting articles whilst searching.
I have a theory as to the cause of this condition.
Firstly, some comments. I think the statistics regarding this condition are very difficult to establish. Parents may refrain from having their son or daughter seen by a professional for the condition and I suspect that would not be uncommon.
The person with the condition would have begun to notice their differences when young and already learnt to compensate and hide their situation. So they themselves as adults will probably not present to a professional.
I believe the affluent family will almost certainly not allow a son or daughter to receive such a diagnosis.
So with these examples above, the condition will be under-reported. And those with the condition who go on to have children, can obviously have a child that may inherit psychopathy.
The condition can occur with below average, average or above average
intelligence. And across all economic classes.
A segment of these groups are more likely to come to the attention of community services, law enforcement ecetera, than other segments, so that could affect statistics.
And if my theory is correct, then there should also be mild through to severe cases of the condition and I would expect that those with the diagnosis, would be mostly male. The severe cases should also be dominated by males. And I would also expect mental illness to be present.
Born with such a condition means that the part of the brain affected is deprived from birth and fails to develope normally.
My theory is that there is a vastly reduced ability to feel. When one doesn’t feel, one has no sense of caring. So causing pain to others doesn’t register. If illness is prevalent, then causing pain to others or animals, can produce an effect that can, I suspect, cause a sense of a type similar to pleasure, to the brain that is starved and can in the severely ill person, consume them.
My theory, at least for a section of this group is that their central nervous system is diminished to varying degrees, thus depriving certain parts of the brain of vital input and development. Whilst other parts of the brain develope normally, the person learns to read and write and meets other milestones on time, as with their peers, the unseen psychopathy condition in the young person exhibits itself via behaviour.
The person learns from others, (which is the case for many disabilities), however the lack of ability to feel, while functional in every other way, often causes them to be wily, deceitful and self centered, seeing others as pawns to make use of. And as is well known, they can become very good actors and charismatic. The charismatic, high functioning psychopath will much prefer to give orders than take them and so will seek out such a position and money.
As it happens, I noticed psychopathic traits amongst persons in the crypto industry, which is exactly the type of environment that would appeal. I discovered today that I’m not the only person to have noticed this high density of persons with the condition in a specific ‘industry’. Which provides a place to deceive, scam and be amongst others of their type, whilst also being amongst and having access to vast quantities of money. It is male dominated, but there are females in the industry that, in my opinion, exhibit traits of the condition too.
Fiona MacLeod (C)