There is essentially no treatment for sociopaths / antisocial personality disorder. Some forms of cognitive behavioral therapy might work on a few, but what you learn when you’re in school and training to be a psychologist/psychiatrist (I’m a Psych major right now, specializing in abnormal psych) is that there isn’t…

Yep. That’s what happened. She meanly made one comment and then he killed himself.

If you don’t know what happened, shut the fuck up with your false equivalencies.

They dug up a mummy in bloody Mesopotamia. That alone should tell you how poorly thought out this film is.

There are only 2 good uses of Tom Cruise in movies nowadays:

Poor Brendan Fraser. The 90s era movie was so great.

On a scale of Man of Steel bad to Suicide Squad bad, how many Martha’s bad is it?

No, no, no! The “teenagers are all dumb” defence does NOT work here - she knew EXACTLY what the fuck she was doing! My 16 year old niece may have crazy temper tantrums sometimes and find every adult to be, like, soooo embarrassing, but she would never urge someone to murder themselves with repeated, insistent,…

Is it just me or does he look surprisingly good for being 63 [and white]? Dude takes care of himself.

I’m pissed that Cosby harmed those (many, many) women, but I’m also pissed that he murdered Cliff Huxtable.

The Atlantic had a great article about this recently! Basically, punishment doesn’t really work, but hardcore reinforcement of reward pathways in children with sociopathic tendencies can help them to gain some level of control over their violent behavior. Kinda.

she’s also a teenager who makes nonsensical decisions with an uncompletely developed brain.

Right. Do we all not remember what it was like to be 17 or something? She’s not a fucking toddler. I realize there are all sorts of fuzzy legal arguments to make about her being a minor and also having an undeveloped brain, but at 17 you fucking know you’re not supposed to tell someone to kill themselves. This is way…

I strongly doubt that she will get anything from this except for sympathy *for herself*. This is not normal teenage behavior. Normal teenagers do fucked up things. They bully, they tease, they point out flaws and they even casually tell people to “kill yourself” (although the internet has taught us that sadly, adults…

That’s my instinct too.

I don’t think I’d want strangers running up and hugging me either. Maybe she was a fan that slipped through the ropes? Judging by the worried look on his face, he had no idea who this person was, nor what she was going on about. Imagine if this had been Michael Richards running up to hug Beyonce and she was like, “I…

There was an article that had some doctors saying you can treat it up to a point but for some you basically have to lock them away forever.

How do you rehabilitate and punish a sociopathic child? Or teen? At what age does it cease to be parental responsibility, and becomes self responsibility?

I am a person who has struggled with mental illness (yay mood disorder) and been hospitalized for it just about 10 years ago. This story makes me sick to my stomach.