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jadedmusingsI love the people on the internet who can diagnose mental illness from an article and predict that someone will grow up to be the next Jeffrey Dahmer.
Look, torturing/maiming animals is AWFUL and horrific. It is indeed a sign that there is something seriously wrong upstairs. The children who did that? Awful little monsters is just what I start to say when I take my PC-filter off. I can't watch those animal cop shows on Animal Planet because there is not enough kleenex in this world to dry my tears from that, nor enough blood pressure medicine to keep my head from exploding. I never said this wasn't a serious problem, and I said it requires immediate intervention. However, I'm not a psychiatrist, particularly not one who specializes in children's mental health. Labeling them as sociopaths? WRONG without a hell of a lot more information. At this point the only thing that is certain (if we can be certain the article didn't leave anything out) is that they displayed a lack of remorse and empathy for the two little creatures. It's a sign that something is wrong, but there could be any number of disorders, and we don't know anything about the environment those children were raised in or even if the adults had a hand in helping them do this horrible thing.
Sorry, growing up under the stigma of mental illness and the misconceptions surrounding it have made this a rather sore subject for me. I'm sorry you had to work with animals who were harmed, I truly am and I wish I could lock up the people who did that so that no animals were ever hurt again. Yet, I have to speak out when I see people sling around terms and use Wikipedia as a way of saying someone is crazy. Sorry, doesn't work that way, and again, we don't know the whole story. I'll go so far as to say they need help and should be in therapy to both learn about what they did and to see if this is a sign of a much larger problem, but as for labeling them with an illness or as psychopathic? I'll leave that up to the people with the actual degrees.
Of course all people are hung up on is that I won't say they're sociopathic. I'm a horrible monster and an idiot, you guys!
Look, torturing/maiming animals is AWFUL and horrific. It is indeed a sign that there is something seriously wrong upstairs. The children who did that? Awful little monsters is just what I start to say when I take my PC-filter off. I can't watch those animal cop shows on Animal Planet because there is not enough kleenex in this world to dry my tears from that, nor enough blood pressure medicine to keep my head from exploding. I never said this wasn't a serious problem, and I said it requires immediate intervention. However, I'm not a psychiatrist, particularly not one who specializes in children's mental health. Labeling them as sociopaths? WRONG without a hell of a lot more information. At this point the only thing that is certain (if we can be certain the article didn't leave anything out) is that they displayed a lack of remorse and empathy for the two little creatures. It's a sign that something is wrong, but there could be any number of disorders, and we don't know anything about the environment those children were raised in or even if the adults had a hand in helping them do this horrible thing.
Sorry, growing up under the stigma of mental illness and the misconceptions surrounding it have made this a rather sore subject for me. I'm sorry you had to work with animals who were harmed, I truly am and I wish I could lock up the people who did that so that no animals were ever hurt again. Yet, I have to speak out when I see people sling around terms and use Wikipedia as a way of saying someone is crazy. Sorry, doesn't work that way, and again, we don't know the whole story. I'll go so far as to say they need help and should be in therapy to both learn about what they did and to see if this is a sign of a much larger problem, but as for labeling them with an illness or as psychopathic? I'll leave that up to the people with the actual degrees.
Of course all people are hung up on is that I won't say they're sociopathic. I'm a horrible monster and an idiot, you guys!
