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"Here is a theory. Lets say this UK state secret is that they know XMRV is the cause of CFS? And people like weesley have been put in place to push the psychological line to deliberately keep it hidden. It is only that a private, non government run lab stumbled across it that it has now come out.
If this were true we should be very worried that this discovery will be buried again and we may miss our chance for answers. Is this why we are seeing the delay with the Alter paper?
In my mind I don’t think this could be a so far fetched scenario. I can’t believe we can’t get this information released somehow.
If there is supposedly 17 million of us worldwide with CFS, much more than say MS, then why are these other conditions so well known and having things done to help the cause, when nothing is being done for us?"
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->>>Muffin says: I do think there is an over-abundant amount of evidence that strongly suggests that the US CDC/CFS and the UK (Weasel, White, Sharpe, etc) are PART OF a 30 plus year conspiracy to cover-up a known virus or multiple viruses (or maybe other pathogen(s)). This would have had to start at the top of our governments, maybe in the military part (Hence, the excuse that this was covered up for "National Security" reasons, as I expect will be the case when it ALL comes out). So, Reeves (other US types), the UK Weasel (and others) were told to do everything possible to keep CFIDS/ME a psychological disorder so that no one believes it could be a very real disease and to keep us all under any radar what so ever.
When there is something like 5,000 plus medical studies/documents on CFIDS/ME and everything surrounding the disease, the CDC/UK shrinks/virologists/researchers still refuse to admit that this is a real disease? Give me a break! They know darn well that this whole thing is not psychological but very much a real and severe physical disease. How could they not believe it? They aren’t stupid, they aren’t crazy but they are true sociopaths and may well have been told that this was of the highest National Security and to keep the “crazy, lazy label” for CFIDS/ME going to cover-up whatever the governments did, deliberately or accidently, decades ago.
Then we have the UK document that has been sealed for 83 years? Right. That too has to be National Security and not just protecting the names of the ill, etc. As stated before, a black marker would take care of the issue of personal information. Just black out personal info and be done with it. But the UK folks didn’t do that. Instead they locked down a 40 page document (or part of a document) for a rather suspicious amount of time. I and my husband requested access to that document knowing full well that we would be denied – and we were denied with the typical bureaucratic reasons given.
I have to wonder if this now CDC splicing of CFIDS/CFS/ME is a part of a long-standing plan that was instituted either as part of the whole plan created decades ago or in the event that a virus was indeed found and flew right into the faces of the UK and US government theories. The collusion between the UK shrinks and the US CDC idiots has been long-standing and united, regardless of the intense efforts of many groups to force CFIDS/ME to be regarded as a real disease rather than a psychological (early childhood abuse, maladaptive personality, etc) disorder(s). Regardless of the huge number of hard-core medical studies, the millions of terribly sick, the deaths attributed to CFIDS/ME, and the demands made by the patients, advocates, doctors, researchers – these UK/US sociopaths still refuse to budge.
I don’t believe this is only about the potential for damaged egos, careers, reputations. Those issues could have been easily fixed right after the stupidity of the Incline Village cluster debacle. Research on the Defreitas virus could have been done in parallel with HIV/AIDS with both viruses benefiting hugely. Money would actually have been saved from a two front research assault on these RETROVIRUSES. But that did not happen. Instead, HIV got the billions of funding and CFIDS/ME got labeled as psychological with what tiny amounts of money going to “research” that tried to “prove” the psychological instead of the very real physical. This tactic to spend funding on HIV and not on another possibly related Retrovirus was deliberate, but not in an effort to save money. And probably the insurance companies got into the act but they would not have had THIS much impact on research for this long with this many sick and dying. That doesn’t make total sense either. Had research been started from the get-go on CFIDS/ME at about the same time as HIV/AIDS, money actually would have been saved in the medium and long –run. The immense loss of income from millions disabled would not have occurred. The amount of Social Security Disability would be much lower for US CFIDS/ME sick. The insurance companies would not have had to spend millions fighting legal battles against the CFIDS/M sick – had the government(s) of the US and UK only did the CFIDS/ME research in parallel with HIV/AIDS. None of this makes sense to me. The whole money aspect doesn’t work – not after 30 years. It just doesn’t work. That leaves us with the horrible conspiracies by our own governments in covering up something.
Think it all through. How can the CDC and the UK idiots refute thousands of serious medical research documents and studies done by highly respected and regarded researchers? They can not. Why is the CDC splitting the “I’m Tired” from the “Neurological disorder” now? Possibly part of the plan from the start or part of the CYA plan if someone (in this case the WPI/NCI/CC and soon the FDA and NIH) figured out that there was indeed a virus involved. They (the CDC and NIH) killed off the Defreitas virus and any further Retrovirus research from the late 1980’s until 2008, but that cat got out of the bag and so now we see this ridiculously transparent split between the “I’m Tired” and the “Neurological Disordered”. This new split is so very transparent to anyone bothering to pay a small amount of attention. It is so damn stupid that it is insulting. But the CDC and the UK sociopaths don’t care. They now it is utterly transparent but they have that insane amount of hubris and the sociopath personalities that allow them to continue this charade – they simply don’t care what anyone else thinks or says. (See the definition and signs of a true sociopath. The discussion fits with the personalities of Reeves and Weasel and their followers).
What I do not understand is why someone, somewhere has not come forward and told the whole truth. How could anyone stand by and watch as millions are disabled, their lives destroyed and thousands more die a terrible death and then not do or say anything to stop it or make it public? HOW? Dear God, there has to be one single person whose conscious can not take any more of this cover-up. Where is that person? How can they live with themselves knowing that their actions/inaction is the cause of 30 plus years of millions of terribly suffering sick/pained and dead? How is it possible to look at children and the very young and not respond? It’s one thing when it affects the older group of people who have had full or near full lives, but an altogether different thing when it is children and the very young who have not had a chance at any real life.
Below is the profile of sociopaths. We know that the anti-CFIDS/ME crew are indeed sociopaths, but what about the other people who also are involved? Are they too sociopaths as well?
I’m beyond disgusted. This isn’t just about money, egos, careers, reputations – it’s much more than those issues. There has to be a much larger and far more powerful situation and group involved in keeping CFIDS/ME research/credibility damaged and damaged for this long.
Profile of the Sociopath (http://www.mcafee.cc/Bin/sb.html)
This website summarizes some of the common features of descriptions of the behavior of sociopaths.
• Glibness and Superficial Charm
• Manipulative and Conning
They never recognize the rights of others and see their self-serving behaviors as permissible. They appear to be charming, yet are covertly hostile and domineering, seeing their victim as merely an instrument to be used. They may dominate and humiliate their victims.
• Grandiose Sense of Self
Feels entitled to certain things as "their right."
• Pathological Lying
Has no problem lying coolly and easily and it is almost impossible for them to be truthful on a consistent basis. Can create, and get caught up in, a complex belief about their own powers and abilities. Extremely convincing and even able to pass lie detector tests.
• Lack of Remorse, Shame or Guilt
A deep seated rage, which is split off and repressed, is at their core. Does not see others around them as people, but only as targets and opportunities. Instead of friends, they have victims and accomplices who end up as victims. The end always justifies the means and they let nothing stand in their way.
• Shallow Emotions
When they show what seems to be warmth, joy, love and compassion it is more feigned than experienced and serves an ulterior motive. Outraged by insignificant matters, yet remaining unmoved and cold by what would upset a normal person. Since they are not genuine, neither are their promises.
• Incapacity for Love
• Need for Stimulation
Living on the edge. Verbal outbursts and physical punishments are normal. Promiscuity and gambling are common.
• Callousness/Lack of Empathy
Unable to empathize with the pain of their victims, having only contempt for others' feelings of distress and readily taking advantage of them.
• Poor Behavioral Controls/Impulsive Nature
Rage and abuse, alternating with small expressions of love and approval produce an addictive cycle for abuser and abused, as well as creating hopelessness in the victim. Believe they are all-powerful, all-knowing, entitled to every wish, no sense of personal boundaries, no concern for their impact on others.
• Early Behavior Problems/Juvenile Delinquency
Usually has a history of behavioral and academic difficulties, yet "gets by" by conning others. Problems in making and keeping friends; aberrant behaviors such as cruelty to people or animals, stealing, etc.
• Irresponsibility/Unreliability
Not concerned about wrecking others' lives and dreams. Oblivious or indifferent to the devastation they cause. Does not accept blame themselves, but blames others, even for acts they obviously committed.
• Promiscuous Sexual Behavior/Infidelity
Promiscuity, child sexual abuse, rape and sexual acting out of all sorts.
• Lack of Realistic Life Plan/Parasitic Lifestyle
Tends to move around a lot or makes all encompassing promises for the future, poor work ethic but exploits others effectively.
• Criminal or Entrepreneurial Versatility
Changes their image as needed to avoid prosecution. Changes life story readily.
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Other Related Qualities:
1. Contemptuous of those who seek to understand them
2. Does not perceive that anything is wrong with them
3. Authoritarian
4. Secretive
5. Paranoid
6. Only rarely in difficulty with the law, but seeks out situations where their tyrannical behavior will be tolerated, condoned, or admired
7. Conventional appearance
8. Goal of enslavement of their victim(s)
9. Exercises despotic control over every aspect of the victim's life
10. Has an emotional need to justify their crimes and therefore needs their victim's affirmation (respect, gratitude and love)
11. Ultimate goal is the creation of a willing victim
12. Incapable of real human attachment to another
13. Unable to feel remorse or guilt
14. Extreme narcissism and grandiose
15. May state readily that their goal is to rule the world
(The above traits are based on the psychopathy checklists of H. Cleckley and R. Hare.)
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NOTE: In the 1830's this disorder was called "moral insanity." By 1900 it was changed to "psychopathic personality." More recently it has been termed "antisocial personality disorder" in the DSM-III and DSM-IV. Some critics have complained that, in the attempt to rely only on 'objective' criteria, the DSM has broadened the concept to include too many individuals. The APD category includes people who commit illegal, immoral or self-serving acts for a variety of reasons and are not necessarily psychopaths.
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DSM-IV Definition
Antisocial personality disorder is characterized by a lack of regard for the moral or legal standards in the local culture. There is a marked inability to get along with others or abide by societal rules. Individuals with this disorder are sometimes called psychopaths or sociopaths.
Diagnostic Criteria (DSM-IV)
1. Since the age of fifteen there has been a disregard for and violation of the right's of others, those right's considered normal by the local culture, as indicated by at least three of the following:
A. Repeated acts that could lead to arrest.
B. Conning for pleasure or profit, repeated lying, or the use of aliases.
C. Failure to plan ahead or being impulsive.
D. Repeated assaults on others.
E. Reckless when it comes to their or others safety.
F. Poor work behavior or failure to honor financial obligations.
G. Rationalizing the pain they inflict on others.
2. At least eighteen years in age.
3. Evidence of a Conduct Disorder, with its onset before the age of fifteen.
4. Symptoms not due to another mental disorder.
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Antisocial Personality Disorder Overview (Written by Derek Wood, RN, BSN, PhD Candidate)
Antisocial Personality Disorder results in what is commonly known as a Sociopath. The criteria for this disorder require an ongoing disregard for the rights of others, since the age of 15 years. Some examples of this disregard are reckless disregard for the safety of themselves or others, failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors, deceitfulness such as repeated lying or deceit for personal profit or pleasure, and lack of remorse for actions that hurt other people in any way. Additionally, they must have evidenced a Conduct Disorder before the age of 15 years, and must be at least 18 years old to receive this diagnosis.
People with this disorder appear to be charming at times, and make relationships, but to them, these are relationships in name only. They are ended whenever necessary or when it suits them, and the relationships are without depth or meaning, including marriages. They seem to have an innate ability to find the weakness in people, and are ready to use these weaknesses to their own ends through deceit, manipulation, or intimidation, and gain pleasure from doing so.
They appear to be incapable of any true emotions, from love to shame to guilt. They are quick to anger, but just as quick to let it go, without holding grudges. No matter what emotion they state they have, it has no bearing on their future actions or attitudes.
They rarely are able to have jobs that last for any length of time, as they become easily bored, instead needing constant change. They live for the moment, forgetting the past, and not planning the future, not thinking ahead what consequences their actions will have. They want immediate rewards and gratification. There currently is no form of psychotherapy that works with those with antisocial personality disorder, as those with this disorder have no desire to change themselves, which is a prerequisite. No medication is available either. The only treatment is the prevention of the disorder in the early stages, when a child first begins to show the symptoms of conduct disorder.
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[Taken in part from MW -- By Caroline Konrad -- September 1999
THE MALIGNANT PERSONALITY:
These people are mentally ill and extremely dangerous! The following precautions will help to protect you from the destructive acts of which they are capable.
First, to recognize them, keep the following guidelines in mind.
(1) They are habitual liars. They seem incapable of either knowing or telling the truth about anything.
(2) They are egotistical to the point of narcissism. They really believe they are set apart from the rest of humanity by some special grace.
(3) They scapegoat; they are incapable of either having the insight or willingness to accept responsibility for anything they do. Whatever the problem, it is always someone else's fault.
(4) They are remorselessly vindictive when thwarted or exposed.
(5) Genuine religious, moral, or other values play no part in their lives. They have no empathy for others and are capable of violence. Under older psychological terminology, they fall into the category of psychopath or sociopath, but unlike the typical psychopath, their behavior is masked by a superficial social facade. You may also find more at http://sociopathworld.com/.
"Here is a theory. Lets say this UK state secret is that they know XMRV is the cause of CFS? And people like weesley have been put in place to push the psychological line to deliberately keep it hidden. It is only that a private, non government run lab stumbled across it that it has now come out.
If this were true we should be very worried that this discovery will be buried again and we may miss our chance for answers. Is this why we are seeing the delay with the Alter paper?
In my mind I don’t think this could be a so far fetched scenario. I can’t believe we can’t get this information released somehow.
If there is supposedly 17 million of us worldwide with CFS, much more than say MS, then why are these other conditions so well known and having things done to help the cause, when nothing is being done for us?"
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->>>Muffin says: I do think there is an over-abundant amount of evidence that strongly suggests that the US CDC/CFS and the UK (Weasel, White, Sharpe, etc) are PART OF a 30 plus year conspiracy to cover-up a known virus or multiple viruses (or maybe other pathogen(s)). This would have had to start at the top of our governments, maybe in the military part (Hence, the excuse that this was covered up for "National Security" reasons, as I expect will be the case when it ALL comes out). So, Reeves (other US types), the UK Weasel (and others) were told to do everything possible to keep CFIDS/ME a psychological disorder so that no one believes it could be a very real disease and to keep us all under any radar what so ever.
When there is something like 5,000 plus medical studies/documents on CFIDS/ME and everything surrounding the disease, the CDC/UK shrinks/virologists/researchers still refuse to admit that this is a real disease? Give me a break! They know darn well that this whole thing is not psychological but very much a real and severe physical disease. How could they not believe it? They aren’t stupid, they aren’t crazy but they are true sociopaths and may well have been told that this was of the highest National Security and to keep the “crazy, lazy label” for CFIDS/ME going to cover-up whatever the governments did, deliberately or accidently, decades ago.
Then we have the UK document that has been sealed for 83 years? Right. That too has to be National Security and not just protecting the names of the ill, etc. As stated before, a black marker would take care of the issue of personal information. Just black out personal info and be done with it. But the UK folks didn’t do that. Instead they locked down a 40 page document (or part of a document) for a rather suspicious amount of time. I and my husband requested access to that document knowing full well that we would be denied – and we were denied with the typical bureaucratic reasons given.
I have to wonder if this now CDC splicing of CFIDS/CFS/ME is a part of a long-standing plan that was instituted either as part of the whole plan created decades ago or in the event that a virus was indeed found and flew right into the faces of the UK and US government theories. The collusion between the UK shrinks and the US CDC idiots has been long-standing and united, regardless of the intense efforts of many groups to force CFIDS/ME to be regarded as a real disease rather than a psychological (early childhood abuse, maladaptive personality, etc) disorder(s). Regardless of the huge number of hard-core medical studies, the millions of terribly sick, the deaths attributed to CFIDS/ME, and the demands made by the patients, advocates, doctors, researchers – these UK/US sociopaths still refuse to budge.
I don’t believe this is only about the potential for damaged egos, careers, reputations. Those issues could have been easily fixed right after the stupidity of the Incline Village cluster debacle. Research on the Defreitas virus could have been done in parallel with HIV/AIDS with both viruses benefiting hugely. Money would actually have been saved from a two front research assault on these RETROVIRUSES. But that did not happen. Instead, HIV got the billions of funding and CFIDS/ME got labeled as psychological with what tiny amounts of money going to “research” that tried to “prove” the psychological instead of the very real physical. This tactic to spend funding on HIV and not on another possibly related Retrovirus was deliberate, but not in an effort to save money. And probably the insurance companies got into the act but they would not have had THIS much impact on research for this long with this many sick and dying. That doesn’t make total sense either. Had research been started from the get-go on CFIDS/ME at about the same time as HIV/AIDS, money actually would have been saved in the medium and long –run. The immense loss of income from millions disabled would not have occurred. The amount of Social Security Disability would be much lower for US CFIDS/ME sick. The insurance companies would not have had to spend millions fighting legal battles against the CFIDS/M sick – had the government(s) of the US and UK only did the CFIDS/ME research in parallel with HIV/AIDS. None of this makes sense to me. The whole money aspect doesn’t work – not after 30 years. It just doesn’t work. That leaves us with the horrible conspiracies by our own governments in covering up something.
Think it all through. How can the CDC and the UK idiots refute thousands of serious medical research documents and studies done by highly respected and regarded researchers? They can not. Why is the CDC splitting the “I’m Tired” from the “Neurological disorder” now? Possibly part of the plan from the start or part of the CYA plan if someone (in this case the WPI/NCI/CC and soon the FDA and NIH) figured out that there was indeed a virus involved. They (the CDC and NIH) killed off the Defreitas virus and any further Retrovirus research from the late 1980’s until 2008, but that cat got out of the bag and so now we see this ridiculously transparent split between the “I’m Tired” and the “Neurological Disordered”. This new split is so very transparent to anyone bothering to pay a small amount of attention. It is so damn stupid that it is insulting. But the CDC and the UK sociopaths don’t care. They now it is utterly transparent but they have that insane amount of hubris and the sociopath personalities that allow them to continue this charade – they simply don’t care what anyone else thinks or says. (See the definition and signs of a true sociopath. The discussion fits with the personalities of Reeves and Weasel and their followers).
What I do not understand is why someone, somewhere has not come forward and told the whole truth. How could anyone stand by and watch as millions are disabled, their lives destroyed and thousands more die a terrible death and then not do or say anything to stop it or make it public? HOW? Dear God, there has to be one single person whose conscious can not take any more of this cover-up. Where is that person? How can they live with themselves knowing that their actions/inaction is the cause of 30 plus years of millions of terribly suffering sick/pained and dead? How is it possible to look at children and the very young and not respond? It’s one thing when it affects the older group of people who have had full or near full lives, but an altogether different thing when it is children and the very young who have not had a chance at any real life.
Below is the profile of sociopaths. We know that the anti-CFIDS/ME crew are indeed sociopaths, but what about the other people who also are involved? Are they too sociopaths as well?
I’m beyond disgusted. This isn’t just about money, egos, careers, reputations – it’s much more than those issues. There has to be a much larger and far more powerful situation and group involved in keeping CFIDS/ME research/credibility damaged and damaged for this long.
Profile of the Sociopath (http://www.mcafee.cc/Bin/sb.html)
This website summarizes some of the common features of descriptions of the behavior of sociopaths.
• Glibness and Superficial Charm
• Manipulative and Conning
They never recognize the rights of others and see their self-serving behaviors as permissible. They appear to be charming, yet are covertly hostile and domineering, seeing their victim as merely an instrument to be used. They may dominate and humiliate their victims.
• Grandiose Sense of Self
Feels entitled to certain things as "their right."
• Pathological Lying
Has no problem lying coolly and easily and it is almost impossible for them to be truthful on a consistent basis. Can create, and get caught up in, a complex belief about their own powers and abilities. Extremely convincing and even able to pass lie detector tests.
• Lack of Remorse, Shame or Guilt
A deep seated rage, which is split off and repressed, is at their core. Does not see others around them as people, but only as targets and opportunities. Instead of friends, they have victims and accomplices who end up as victims. The end always justifies the means and they let nothing stand in their way.
• Shallow Emotions
When they show what seems to be warmth, joy, love and compassion it is more feigned than experienced and serves an ulterior motive. Outraged by insignificant matters, yet remaining unmoved and cold by what would upset a normal person. Since they are not genuine, neither are their promises.
• Incapacity for Love
• Need for Stimulation
Living on the edge. Verbal outbursts and physical punishments are normal. Promiscuity and gambling are common.
• Callousness/Lack of Empathy
Unable to empathize with the pain of their victims, having only contempt for others' feelings of distress and readily taking advantage of them.
• Poor Behavioral Controls/Impulsive Nature
Rage and abuse, alternating with small expressions of love and approval produce an addictive cycle for abuser and abused, as well as creating hopelessness in the victim. Believe they are all-powerful, all-knowing, entitled to every wish, no sense of personal boundaries, no concern for their impact on others.
• Early Behavior Problems/Juvenile Delinquency
Usually has a history of behavioral and academic difficulties, yet "gets by" by conning others. Problems in making and keeping friends; aberrant behaviors such as cruelty to people or animals, stealing, etc.
• Irresponsibility/Unreliability
Not concerned about wrecking others' lives and dreams. Oblivious or indifferent to the devastation they cause. Does not accept blame themselves, but blames others, even for acts they obviously committed.
• Promiscuous Sexual Behavior/Infidelity
Promiscuity, child sexual abuse, rape and sexual acting out of all sorts.
• Lack of Realistic Life Plan/Parasitic Lifestyle
Tends to move around a lot or makes all encompassing promises for the future, poor work ethic but exploits others effectively.
• Criminal or Entrepreneurial Versatility
Changes their image as needed to avoid prosecution. Changes life story readily.
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Other Related Qualities:
1. Contemptuous of those who seek to understand them
2. Does not perceive that anything is wrong with them
3. Authoritarian
4. Secretive
5. Paranoid
6. Only rarely in difficulty with the law, but seeks out situations where their tyrannical behavior will be tolerated, condoned, or admired
7. Conventional appearance
8. Goal of enslavement of their victim(s)
9. Exercises despotic control over every aspect of the victim's life
10. Has an emotional need to justify their crimes and therefore needs their victim's affirmation (respect, gratitude and love)
11. Ultimate goal is the creation of a willing victim
12. Incapable of real human attachment to another
13. Unable to feel remorse or guilt
14. Extreme narcissism and grandiose
15. May state readily that their goal is to rule the world
(The above traits are based on the psychopathy checklists of H. Cleckley and R. Hare.)
________________________________________
NOTE: In the 1830's this disorder was called "moral insanity." By 1900 it was changed to "psychopathic personality." More recently it has been termed "antisocial personality disorder" in the DSM-III and DSM-IV. Some critics have complained that, in the attempt to rely only on 'objective' criteria, the DSM has broadened the concept to include too many individuals. The APD category includes people who commit illegal, immoral or self-serving acts for a variety of reasons and are not necessarily psychopaths.
________________________________________
DSM-IV Definition
Antisocial personality disorder is characterized by a lack of regard for the moral or legal standards in the local culture. There is a marked inability to get along with others or abide by societal rules. Individuals with this disorder are sometimes called psychopaths or sociopaths.
Diagnostic Criteria (DSM-IV)
1. Since the age of fifteen there has been a disregard for and violation of the right's of others, those right's considered normal by the local culture, as indicated by at least three of the following:
A. Repeated acts that could lead to arrest.
B. Conning for pleasure or profit, repeated lying, or the use of aliases.
C. Failure to plan ahead or being impulsive.
D. Repeated assaults on others.
E. Reckless when it comes to their or others safety.
F. Poor work behavior or failure to honor financial obligations.
G. Rationalizing the pain they inflict on others.
2. At least eighteen years in age.
3. Evidence of a Conduct Disorder, with its onset before the age of fifteen.
4. Symptoms not due to another mental disorder.
________________________________________
Antisocial Personality Disorder Overview (Written by Derek Wood, RN, BSN, PhD Candidate)
Antisocial Personality Disorder results in what is commonly known as a Sociopath. The criteria for this disorder require an ongoing disregard for the rights of others, since the age of 15 years. Some examples of this disregard are reckless disregard for the safety of themselves or others, failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors, deceitfulness such as repeated lying or deceit for personal profit or pleasure, and lack of remorse for actions that hurt other people in any way. Additionally, they must have evidenced a Conduct Disorder before the age of 15 years, and must be at least 18 years old to receive this diagnosis.
People with this disorder appear to be charming at times, and make relationships, but to them, these are relationships in name only. They are ended whenever necessary or when it suits them, and the relationships are without depth or meaning, including marriages. They seem to have an innate ability to find the weakness in people, and are ready to use these weaknesses to their own ends through deceit, manipulation, or intimidation, and gain pleasure from doing so.
They appear to be incapable of any true emotions, from love to shame to guilt. They are quick to anger, but just as quick to let it go, without holding grudges. No matter what emotion they state they have, it has no bearing on their future actions or attitudes.
They rarely are able to have jobs that last for any length of time, as they become easily bored, instead needing constant change. They live for the moment, forgetting the past, and not planning the future, not thinking ahead what consequences their actions will have. They want immediate rewards and gratification. There currently is no form of psychotherapy that works with those with antisocial personality disorder, as those with this disorder have no desire to change themselves, which is a prerequisite. No medication is available either. The only treatment is the prevention of the disorder in the early stages, when a child first begins to show the symptoms of conduct disorder.
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[Taken in part from MW -- By Caroline Konrad -- September 1999
THE MALIGNANT PERSONALITY:
These people are mentally ill and extremely dangerous! The following precautions will help to protect you from the destructive acts of which they are capable.
First, to recognize them, keep the following guidelines in mind.
(1) They are habitual liars. They seem incapable of either knowing or telling the truth about anything.
(2) They are egotistical to the point of narcissism. They really believe they are set apart from the rest of humanity by some special grace.
(3) They scapegoat; they are incapable of either having the insight or willingness to accept responsibility for anything they do. Whatever the problem, it is always someone else's fault.
(4) They are remorselessly vindictive when thwarted or exposed.
(5) Genuine religious, moral, or other values play no part in their lives. They have no empathy for others and are capable of violence. Under older psychological terminology, they fall into the category of psychopath or sociopath, but unlike the typical psychopath, their behavior is masked by a superficial social facade. You may also find more at http://sociopathworld.com/.
