Some psychopaths are superficially adapted to their environment and are even popular, but they feel they must carefully hide their true nature because it will not be acceptable to others.

4 These persons may feel that they are prisoners of their own etiological determination and believe that they had, in comparison with normal people, fewer opportunities or advantages in life.ĭespite their outward arrogance, psychopaths feel inferior to others and know they are stigmatized by their own behavior. The life histories of psychopaths are often characterized by a chaotic family life, lack of parental attention and guidance, parental substance abuse and antisocial behavior, poor relationships, divorce, and adverse neighborhoods.

The lives of most psychopaths are devoid of a stable social network or warm, close bonds. Psychopaths are at least periodically aware of the effects of their behavior on others and can be genuinely saddened by their inability to control it. This desire remains frequently unfulfilled, however, because it is obviously not easy for another person to get close to someone with such repellent personality characteristics. As with anyone else, psychopaths have a deep wish to be loved and cared for.

Psychopaths can suffer emotional pain for a variety of reasons. Furthermore, psychopaths suffer emotionally as a consequence of separation, divorce, death of a beloved person, or dissatisfaction with their own deviant behavior. Like healthy people, many psychopaths love their parents, spouse, children, and pets in their own way, but they have difficulty in loving and trusting the rest of the world. But do all psychopaths show a complete lack of normal emotional capacities and empathy? 1,2 As a consequence of these criteria, the image of the psychopath is that of a cold, heartless, inhuman being. Pathologic - this refers to any medical condition that is considered abnormal.Psychopathy is characterized by diagnostic features such as superficial charm, high intelligence, poor judgment and failure to learn from experience, pathological egocentricity and incapacity for love, lack of remorse or shame, impulsivity, grandiose sense of self-worth, pathological lying, manipulative behavior, poor self-control, promiscuous sexual behavior, juvenile delinquency, and criminal versatility, among others. Paying close attention can help us better distinguish the nature of the fear, and thereby respond more appropriately (less pathologically). All anxiety, pathologic or normal, serves as an important communication of a feeling which can be used to help us perceive more precisely what stimulus in our environments might trigger our fear. This stalling can subsequently mushroom in time to a mental and physical paralysis, thus leaving them unable to perform in the originally desired fashion. Writers, musicians, or students display this anxiety via procrastination, postponing aspects of their preparation out of a sense of fear. However, when pathological, this anxiety might drift into obsessing on all of the details necessary to prepare for the test but never actually preparing. For example, an upcoming test or performance can motivate us to study or prepare for the challenge at hand. Using the thermometer as a metaphor for understanding normal versus pathologic anxiety, one might consider normal anxiety as that which keys the body and prompts us to action in a way that helps us function better in life.Pathologic anxiety would prevent someone from doing what she wishes to do or from feeling how she would like to feel.

Normal fear vs pathological fear