I have noticed that the cptsd symptoms I have been experiencing after my encounters with the psychopath in fact match how he used to often behave or feel.
lack of feeling safe
constant fear and fearfulness
being suspicious of people
seeing everything as ugly although there are no realistic flaws
trying to find safety in objects that are "good" or beautiful, trying to keep them close with too much attachment
lethargy and great insecurity in actions, especially when it comes to decision making
I have a feeling as if I caught this from him as the "flu". He, of course, had the other side as well, of feeling extremely comfortable in his skin, being confident and outgoing. Would a traumatized person also feel like that? Say, if they "embraced" their trauma so to say, as something they are?
I know that there are parts of the brain with psychopaths that do not activate and that this is an explanation for a lot of their behavior and mental states. But why do they not feel like they are suffering because of this? And most importantly, even if they do, or say they do, why is there no effort to change? Where does all the narcissism come from? It just doesn't match all of that insecure behavior on the other side. Their confidence seems to be genuine, rather than a manner of compensation.
I personally do not feel that they are traumatized, although I believed that for a long time about the P I knew.
Something just doesn't match. It feels to me more accurately to describe it as if they sold their soul to the devil, and now they are not just impaired as one is with a trauma, but completely annihilated as people.
But I am curious to know what is the scientific stand on this now. What is the reason that they cannot be "rehabilitated", but only taught how to act more appropriately?
What would be the difference between a trauma and this kind of complete annihilation of humanity?
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