Life of a Psychopath: The Challenges, Deep Sense of Sadness

Challenges of Psychopaths
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Abstract
This paper tries to establish the challenges that persons suffering from psychopathy face on their daily life. This is topic that is rarely researched, relative to the focus on the impacts that psychopaths have on their victims (Quan, 2011). When one mentions the term Psychopath is mentioned, it commands dread among the minds of many. This is relative to the fact that, it is a term that is associated with dysfunctional persons that cause unspeakable horror upon their victims (Dutton, 2013). It is for this reason that most people will have thought of ruthless killers, who do not show remorse or guilt other than enjoyment, when the term psychopath is mentioned. Persons that are medically diagnosed with psychopathy tend to be characteristically aggressive, violent, lacking guilt, remorse and empathy. For most people, psychopaths do not seem to suffer from any form emotional turmoil, much like persons that do not have mental developmental disorders (Ohikuare, 2014). In some cases where psychopaths have been cited in court rooms, they have been seen to show no emotions when sentenced to death or life imprisonment (Dutton, 2013). In some cases, psychopaths have been seen to grin at the jury or even insult the judges. Psychopaths have also been known to feign suffering to be in a position to take advantage of their victims before attacking (Dutton, 2013). However, psychopaths tend to suffer from deep sense of deep sadness associated with their low ability to develop social connections and general dysfunctional lives. Psychopaths have also been found to suffer from inferiority complex, despite the fact that the outward personality is a display of orchestrated superiority. For the persons diagnosed with psychopathy, they have a great challenge connecting with people, partly because of their mental state and partly due to the attitudes that people around psychopaths portray towards them. One of the most exhausting element of being a psychopath, is that that they lack a sense of self control (Martens, 2015). This means that they constantly engage in activities that endanger their lives and of those around them, without the element of control. What is more is the fact that they do not seem to learn from their mistakes, relative to repetitive mistakes, associated with lack of control. They also tend to battle very intense emotional battles, reeling from their dysfunctional lives (Martens, 2015). Much of their lives is associated with failed relationships, jobs, family ties and marriages among other connections. As such, they live is basically an eternal dysfunctional set of life activities.
Introduction
The term psychopath, when used to refer to someone, comes with its fair share of dread, relative to the fact that it is a name that is closely associated with dysfunctional persons. For most people when the word comes to mind they imagine of a person that is eager to kill without remorse of self-guilt (Martens, 2015). The meaning in this couldn't be further from the truth. When one is medically identified as a psychopath, this means that they have been diagnosed with a developmental disorder which is largely associated with low empathy, remorse, guilt, aggress...