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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/06/when-your-child-is-a-psychopath/524502/

The condition has long been considered untreatable. Experts can spot it in a child as young as 3 or 4. But a new clinical approach offers hope.

It's a old article, but worth sharing. This is every parent's worse nightmare I'm sure, and I do often wonder what causes it. I mean what exactly is the trigger for someone to become a psychopath? I don't know my mental health science like that.
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I read that. Actually fascinating stuff.
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Good read.

SalazarCrane posted...

Good read.

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just give them weed lmao

I actually read it all, pretty interesting, and scary.
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Very interesting read.
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FursonaNonGrata posted...

just give them weed lmao

That would be a interesting case study if they were given legal medical marijuana (non-smoking kind of course).

My Honor Sister used to be high strung, and pissed off all the time until she started taking it. She acted like a normal human being for once, and she immediately noticed the benefits.
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UnhndredDescole posted...

That was a very intriguing read

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Good read, this stuck out:

Still, researchers stress that a callous childeven one who was born that wayis not automatically destined for psychopathy. By some estimates, four out of five children with these traits do not grow up to be psychopaths. The mysterythe one everyone is trying to solveis why some of these children develop into normal adults while others end up on death row.

So most of these kids dont grow up to be psychopaths anyway? Seems kinda contradictory to the rest of the article
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Don't see how its contradictory, it still addresses the 1 in 5 that do end up being psychopaths and how its pretty much a life sentence since they don't get better at all.
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Didnt the article mention somewhere this was incurable or untreatable or something? I was just under the impression most of these kids were destined to become psychopaths given the nature of the illness as outlined in the preceding paragraphs in the article.
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Yeah, and they go on record saying that, but they're also discovering that, while incurable they can alleviate it, and actually make the person a contributing member to society, they're still a ticking timebomb, but they're not serial killers at least.

There's one example on the article about the worst case they ever got, and now he's 37, works at a funerary, got married, had a kid, all that stuff, he still had problems, but has living an almost normal life.

They also mention percentages of patients they treated vs patients that are just sent to juvenile/prison, and the percentage of repeated offenders, or people that just outright become murderers or kill themselves is way way lower, still big numbers though, but clearly they're going in the right direction, hopefully.
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That was a very interesting read
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