Psychopathy is neither a disease nor a norm of behavior. This is a borderline condition that can easily develop into a serious mental illness. Signs of psychopathy can be seen even in early childhood, since this style of behavior is the result of congenital disorders of the nervous system. This may be a genetic predisposition, an inadequate intrauterine development due to harmful factors, or severe illnesses in early childhood.
Psychopathy is a violation of the activity of the higher nervous system, as a result of which the main signs of psychopathy in behavior appear:
- Infantility - when talking with a psychopath, you understand that there is something childish in the person, frivolous, irresponsible.
- Reduced emotional-volitional activity - the main symptom of psychopathy is a lack of will, which once again emphasizes partial infantilism. In addition, psychopaths, if they show their emotions , no matter how loud they are, it is always the same behavior.
- Psychopaths always exaggerate.
- They are easy to manipulate.
Hysterical psychopaths tend to fantasize, the symptom of an excitable psychopathy is emotional instability, paranoiac psychopaths are immature thinking, and unstable - weak will.
The course of psychopathy
Psychopaths, we repeat, are not sick, but they have some defects of nervous activity. So, a psychopath can build a successful career, business, acquire a family. In this he is assisted by the secondary synthesis of mental traits necessary for life in society.
Thus, there are two types of psychopathy - decompensated and compensated. Compensated psychopathy is a smoothing of the symptoms of psychopathy in adults, which occurs under favorable social conditions of life. But this state is easily shattered by any psychological shake-up, stress, shock, disappointment, and then the psychopath enters the stage of decompensation. Decompensation is a violation of the social adaptation of a psychopath, it occurs only if there are really important changes for a person. At such moments, the characteristics of the character of the psychopath are particularly pronounced, and in some cases, polar reactions also arise. For example, in hysterical psychopaths depression can begin, in those that are excitable - asthenia.
For example, signs of psychopathy in women worsen in the first trimester of pregnancy, before menstruation, after abortion, unsuccessful birth. There are two factors that influence the behavior of a psychopath:
- physiological - a change in the hormonal background;
- psychological - strong experiences.
Treatment of psychopathy
In general, psychopaths can live a full life, since psychopathy has no progressive properties. In the state of compensation there is no need for treatment, this is the time for prevention and avoidance of exacerbations and a state of decompensation. Prevention consists in an elementary social formation:
- correct education of a child with psychopathy;
- search for suitable (corresponding to the nature and interests) hobbies, hobbies;
- correct employment in accordance with intellectual abilities and social flaws.
For the period of decompensation, the psychopath should go to the sick leave, as the work capacity is temporarily lost. Before disability, it is extremely rare.
In decompensation, psychopathy is treated both medically and with the help of family psychiatry. Selection of medicines depends on the type of psychopathy. When asthenia is prescribed light natural stimulants based on ginseng, eleutherococcus, with hysteria, aggression , malignancy - antipsychotics, with emotional instability - antidepressants.