Can a Child Be a 'Psychopath'?

Or probably just possessed.

Childhood is when psychopathy begins.

they can be born that way it is most easily diagnosed by a lack of empathy, when I was a young kid I had heat seizure and they told my mom I was going to be brain dead or a psychopath, because the cause of the seizures was supposedly the synopsis in were miss firing and from the region it appeared to be originating at was the part for emotion control

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yes it can be b'se if he/she is influenced by child abuse he can be force to be a Psychopath please. But people you must know that a child his like acomputer Garbage in Garbage out

Sure, why not? We always teach them they can be whatever they want....

yeah there born that way...sucks to say but its true

Psychopaths are in fact born that way and that state cannot be acquired otherwise. That said, some very rare disease processes can in fact cause a state that mimics those who are in fact genuine Psychopaths, in that they are entirely incapable of feeling or expressing emotion (most of them fake and act their way through social interactions and to perceived emotional situations by observing others and how they see those other people react to different situations, and thus they are almost always notorious for inappropriate reactions to such situations, or noted as being 'awkward' around and with others especially in their formative years). However, unlike with genuine Psychopaths, this effect can be reversed with treatment and medications for the disease process responsible providing the afflicted patient is diagnosed properly to proceed with treatments, whereas in a genuine-born Psychopath they will not and cannot ever reverse their condition, and they will never be able to experience or to feel emotion for their entire lives.

If there's a smaller amygdala and a shorted connection between it and the neocortex, then yes.

of course

I find this very disturbing & frightening. Primarily because I believe it is true & there is no mediation or treatment to 'cure' it.

PSYCHOPATHS ARE BORN. :IKE cLINTON AND dR hOWARD dEAN WHO INTRODUCED oBAMA TO A nATION

It's pretty sad to say. but it's possible =/

ldo

Of course

Definitely

Of course.

Is it possible that one of the unneeded vaccines that children are forced to take could have caused this problem...who knows...

Most psychopaths begin to exhibit serious behavioral problems at an early age.

It's a brain characteristic in some percentage of the population. Unfortunately, they seem to gravitate toward positions of power. We need to administer a medical test so we can exclude psychopaths from govt work entirely.

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I do too!

My middle brother used to try and feed my littlest brother nuts(the metal ones) in his cheerios. His reason? "I don't want a little brother anymore." All with a smile on his face.

How many serial killers exhibited sociopathic behaviors at a young age? Many of them show signs of this sociopathic behavior at a very young age. Whether it be abusing animals, anti-social behaviors, etc Take a look at the news recently, just how many children, even under 10 years of age, have brutally murdered others, including their own family members? Sad thing about this is, many parents of children like this, see the signs right in front of them, but choose to be in "denial" instead of getting their child help. Then, years later when they become sociopathic serial killers, it's too late for any kind of help. Sad, but unfortunately very true with many of the parents who have potentially psychopathic children...

Watching enough horror flicks and engaging in reckless behavior

with friends. Killing small helpless creatures every way only in

the imagination. Tormenting the little sister or brother

to no end.



There are those parents who truly believe their son or daughter

are little angels. In most cases that's true but there is always

that one or two percent that could have a future Bundy or

Gacy.etc, etc.

Yes, and quite often such chldren are often innately able to mask the anma by superior intellgence. In the case of this particular 9 year old, his intellgence was not sufficient to mask his anima which may be why his parents were able to notice lack of conscience in him.

I don't care, just take this disturbing picture off Sodahead please.

I went to school with a bunch of them. Several schools FILLED with them actually. And these were PUBLIC schools! And PLEASE don't tell me that the kid's last name is Meyers!

I would really have to see the patient, first; before making that decision.

....and it fascinates the hell out of me. o.O I have a thing for psychopaths and such.

Oh hell yes they can. I've heard of kids torturing/murdering small animals before... makes me sick.

I imagine so; a chemical imbalance in the brain is what causes it, so I suppose it just depends on when in the person's life it becomes noticeable, and one possibility is childhood.

Can a child have down syndrome?

I'm not saying it's genetic, but the day a person turns 18 is not the day they decide they're going to be a psychopath. It's a mental thing that doesn't need any rhyme or reason to develop. You either are or your not, it's better to catch it soon then deal with it later when it's too late for god knows what.

psy·cho·path   [sahy-kuh-path] Show IPA
noun
a person with a psychopathic personality, which manifests as amoral and antisocial behavior, lack of ability to love or establish meaningful personal relationships, extreme egocentricity, failure to learn from experience, etc.

If the conditions are right, societies can and will breed by social osmosis these types of individuals...Since the beginning of time MANKIND has had this soulless and spiritual vacuum within these types of persons.. VOID OF EMPATHY.. NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER IN THE HIGHEST DEGREE. NO REGRETS or COMPUNCTIONS, and SO INTERNALLY and EXTERNALLY VIOLENT....this void of EMPATHY, is the greatest catalyst. Some social remedies are usable to lessen such a void, TEACHING CHILDREN the importance of OTHERS and TEACH THEM TO FEEL FOR OTHERS and HOW and WHAT it feels like to feel for other. EMPATHY CAN BE TAUGHT. As we see OUR WORLD is filled to the BRIM with NARCISSISM,"as long as I get me mine", "survival of the fittest" and " god doesn't exist" and "all is relative"..these ideas need to be DE-EMPHASIZED.....

PSYCHOPATHIC INDIVIDUALS start their path in CHILDHOOD.

I do have to admit, the kid looks creepy:





This seems to be the diagnosis of one doctor. Is that so? A second opinion is definitely in order, here.

Most kids, especially teens, are considered mild sociopaths. It has to come from soemwhere, I suppose, but this is a dangerous way to look at it; are we going to start treating all misbehavior as psychopathy, now? I mean, the trendy, diagnosis-of-the-moment now is for any unexplained, small devation from "normal behavior" to be labelled "autism". A few years ago, it was ADD.

So easy to label what we don't understand, isn't it?

For those who said "No" think about this. True Child Prodigies are born, not created. As this is a proven statement, then true psychopaths are also born, not created. A born condition can be affected by environment, but it is already there

Of course. One does not need to be 18 to lack empathy/manipulative/logical.

It's definitely something you're born with as an underlying cognitive function. It would be akin to seeing the "glass half empty/half full" and how you have a pre born disposition for perception. Except in this case, the glass, whether it breaks or not (when dropped) stirs no emotional response and you clean it up and move on. It's a cause and effect with no worth. Break your favorite glass? Stare down, examine it, move on. Think of the next logical thing to do like replace it or not. The same can be done with people. It takes a person to self condition themselves with the philosophical/intellectual reasoning to not succumb to said biology.