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Re: Brother is anti social I need help by twin @ Yesterday at 02:02 PM

Thank you Diane. My brother is about 57 y/o. I'm not sure, but I think she gives him cash. My sister and I have talked about going to Adult Protective Services. We're in the information gathering phase right now. She just left my home recently a
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Re: Brother is anti social I need help by Dianne E. @ Yesterday at 12:30 PM

Hi Twin, Welcome to the forum. Your brother certainly has all the earmarks. I have known of other elderly people who became aware of what their child/adult was at an older age. The big difference is they had broken through the tough denial regarding
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Re: Brother is anti social I need help by twin @ 09/05/10 04:54 PM

Hi All - I'm new to this forum and appreciate all of the information that I've learned from reading the posts. Where do I begin? The most immediate problem is this: Our mother (who is now 83 y/o) has been financially exploited and emotionally
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Re: My Mother. by MrSammler @ 09/03/10 03:11 PM

My Psychopath nephew described several of the really hideous kids at the therapeutic boarding school (read: private boarding school for ODD/CD/Psychopath thugs with rich parents) he was sent to at 16 as psychopaths, and it was really interesting to
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Re: Enabling Parents of Psychopaths by MrSammler @ 09/03/10 01:00 PM

The father died 4 years ago. My sister and I are now permanently estranged from one another due to a final and completely unacceptable transgression on the part of her Psychopath toward one of my family members and my decision to end my relationship
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Re: Enabling Parents of Psychopaths by Dianne E. @ 09/03/10 12:26 PM

Hi MrSammler, His behavior does not add up due to drugs, people smoking pot are not the violent types. In my opinion they really don't burn out, they may slow down like all of us due to age. It must be so difficult to have to know all of this an
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Re: Enabling Parents of Psychopaths by MrSammler @ 09/03/10 11:07 AM

She thinks that his behavioral problems all stem from his addictions/addictive personality. Certainly drug use and drug dealing have been major facets of his experience at times (he started smoking pot in 8th grade and was *the* big drug dealer in h
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Re: Enabling Parents of Psychopaths by Dianne E. @ 09/02/10 07:29 PM

Hi, welcome to the forum. These are my observations about parents of Psychopath's, denial is a very common pattern. In part that is why a diagnosis of conduct disorder is really saying watch out your kid looks like a Psychopath. Parents want to see
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Enabling Parents of Psychopaths by MrSammler @ 09/02/10 10:35 AM

I've read very exhaustively on the topic of psychopathy as I try to understand my nephew. He appears to me and others to be undoubtedly a psychopath, as he "passes" the Hare Psychopathy Checklist with flying colors and has all of the traits indicati