Do you think a child can be a psychopath?
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@BambooPanda13 (867)
United States
August 2, 2009 8:58pm CST
Do you think that a child could be a psychopath? Medically, in the psychological world, it is deemed that children can not be psychopaths because under a certain age their brains aren't fully developed and can't really process right and wrong, and the consequences of their actions. But I've heard real stories about kids who kill, and I mean, by everything that was said it sounds like they are psychopathic. There are red flags for telling if a child is mentally disturbed, and they've said that people who become serial killers mostly always had these traits in their past when they were child (and still do). Like little kids that kill animals, for fun. Kids that pathologically lie, even manipulate. Stuff like that. I mean, it may be hard to pick that sort of thing out because I'm sure kids who are harming animals are doing it in private. Or if they do something bad but show no remorse or guilt, no matter how severe it was. So, taking those things into consideration, do you think that a child could actually be a psychopath? And I don't mean, grow up to be one, I mean as they are, a child.
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@tutor19us (455)
• India
3 Aug 09
Yes. A child may be smart enough to have psychopathic tendencies from childhood. Have you seen Omen? Though the devil is there in the child but still the killer is still a kid. I feel they may not be physically strong but yet they can have a well developed psychopathic tendency.
@eikonsamala (34)
• Philippines
3 Aug 09
yes,,i think so... During pregnancy many things happened inside the womb. It can affect the mentality of the unborn child. Such as drinking medicines that are not for pregnant woman, or accidentally taking hormonal pills during pregnancy... There are what you call clinical cause of psychosis which can be due to the acts of pregnancy.. Other is caused by the environmental influences. Which includes the way of disciplines and the set up of the community around the child. Some psychosis is caused by a traumatic experiences which turns to negative compensation. They tend to do bad things to satisfy themselves or to put their feelings toward it. Releasing the introversion toward what he sees.
@baldypriest (338)
• United States
3 Aug 09
Little kids who display psychotic tendencies do sometimes grow up to be fully legit "psychopaths." Of course, there is the debate of whether it's biological, environmental, or a bit of both. It seems that these traits manifest early in life for some folks, starting on a smaller scale and leading up to the big-time. Are these children already completely psychopathic? I think that's hard to say for certain. Like you said, their brains are not fully developed. In a few select cases, I do see how a child could fully embody the term "psychopath." This is the kind of thing they tend to gloss over in lifespan classes, ha ha.
@Daisy11 (13)
• China
3 Aug 09
A chid may not be a psychopath.According to psychology,people's childhood has big effect on their mentality.The family problem like parents' broken marriage,poor family educantion,or focible educantion,the school problem like being laughted/joked at,teachers' unfair treating and so on,will hurt chilren's healthy mind.You can watch many films about children's problem.They'll tell you many examples.
I do believe that there's child who's a psychopath.
