Wow Rod…I absolutely agree. Look up some of the traits of these type people. I have had several patients that suffer from antisocial personality disorder. I agree with Rod, there is no sure way to treat such a person because the circumstances that made them this way has already done its damage. The time to save a person is while they are in the midst of their abuse. We need to be rescuing children who are being victimized and frankly we are failing to do this. This condition is always the result, but I have to say, I think it can start at or before birth. I think mother’s who are abused by husbands while they are pregnant, mother’s who drink and use narcotics also contribute people who have this mental condition. If we recall, the sister of what was his name in Ohio…Anthony something, she said he was always mean. He wasn’t abused he was just mean. If his parents used drugs while he was growing inside his mother, he was clearly lost before he was born.
My brother was born this way, my mother drank and took prescription medication while she was pregnant with Benson, and then she was unable to embrace him after he was born. For whatever her reasons, Benson felt her intense dislike for him. Now she says she could tell while she was carrying him he was bad. I don’t or can’t tell her she was wrong. All I know is he came into this world with a severe case of antisocial personality disorder.
I guess my biggest self-contained secret is knowing I was not the best husband I could have been to my first wife. I didn’t marry her for the right reason and I never really loved her. I know this because I love my current wife in ways I can’t always find the right words to express. I married Vicki for all the right reason and she is the love of my life.