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Is your difficult child a psychopath?
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 627046" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>COM, another great post.</p><p></p><p>If a person is psychotic, as in out of touch with reality, the person does not often know it. Sometimes after an episode, he/she doesn't even remember it and often you hear about people calling the cops and the cops taking the poor sick person to a psychiatric hospital where they are given anti-psychotic shots often against their will because t hey don't even understand they are sick. Often, they quit their medications and get sick again...THAT is their choice if they make the decision while they are sane. But...</p><p></p><p>Our difficult children are not insane. Some have mood disorders. Some are drug addicts. Some if not most have personality disorders. They are cognizant of where they are, who they are, what they do. The understand right from wrong. They are not hallucinating. COM made an excellent point at how well they can think out a devious plot to manipulate us, steal, deliberately lie to get a certain result, and some...the fine art of dealing drugs. I don't think any of us are dealing with psychosis. I have a mood disorder without psychosis and it does not impair your thinking to the degree that you can not decide you want to feel better. In fact, many of our difficult children use depression as a reason/excuse for why they are taking drugs, although there are better alternatives and they have been told...</p><p></p><p>Their quirky, hard-wired, opinionated, stubborn, self-destructive personalities don't help them, but that CAN be overcome. Also, many are lazy and don't want to do the hard work to change. It IS hard work. And some just plain are fine with their lifestyles as they are, even if it makes US cringe. They want to live outside the box and hope Mom will pitch in with some $$$.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 627046, member: 1550"] COM, another great post. If a person is psychotic, as in out of touch with reality, the person does not often know it. Sometimes after an episode, he/she doesn't even remember it and often you hear about people calling the cops and the cops taking the poor sick person to a psychiatric hospital where they are given anti-psychotic shots often against their will because t hey don't even understand they are sick. Often, they quit their medications and get sick again...THAT is their choice if they make the decision while they are sane. But... Our difficult children are not insane. Some have mood disorders. Some are drug addicts. Some if not most have personality disorders. They are cognizant of where they are, who they are, what they do. The understand right from wrong. They are not hallucinating. COM made an excellent point at how well they can think out a devious plot to manipulate us, steal, deliberately lie to get a certain result, and some...the fine art of dealing drugs. I don't think any of us are dealing with psychosis. I have a mood disorder without psychosis and it does not impair your thinking to the degree that you can not decide you want to feel better. In fact, many of our difficult children use depression as a reason/excuse for why they are taking drugs, although there are better alternatives and they have been told... Their quirky, hard-wired, opinionated, stubborn, self-destructive personalities don't help them, but that CAN be overcome. Also, many are lazy and don't want to do the hard work to change. It IS hard work. And some just plain are fine with their lifestyles as they are, even if it makes US cringe. They want to live outside the box and hope Mom will pitch in with some $$$. [/QUOTE]
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