Am I a psychopath?
Did I just grow up with ID tendencies, forgetting most of my EGO and cutting out my SUPER EGO? Apparently these are the types of people only out for their own means, selfish and dangerous beings who will do anything to get what they want. There was a guy living in Dorset, and his girlfriend lived in London. She'd moved over there for a job, whilst he stayed at home and was basically a slob living off his parents. One day, his girlfriend was feeling the need for a break; and to convince her not to do this, the guy asked his parents for their car to drive down to London and sort it all out in person. His dad refused him the car, and suddenly the guy's selfish ID took over and grabbed a hammer and hit his father over the head. He then went into the kitchen, to make a sandwich for his journey - with no remorse or care for what he had just done. He stumbled upon his mother in the kitchen, and proceeded to smash the hammer into her skull as well. Then, dragging both bodies (leaving trails of blood behind,) the guy drove off in the car (with his sandwich) and dumped his parents' bodies off a cliff. Then he went down to London, acted completely calm with his girlfriend and explained that he'd seen an injured sheep (to explain the blood on his shirt.) Later that evening, the police caught up with the guy, his parents bodies had been discovered at the bottom of the cliff (they didn't quite make it into the sea) and the guy was arrested.
We do have fun talking about these things. Like human babies are more vulnerable than other animals because they can barely see, can't hear or smell straight after birth whereas within a few hours, other animals are walking after being born. However, babies have an instinctive defence mechanism for survival in their appearance of being cute; making people look at them, notice them, and care for them. They are born with an EGO, which controls their desires. This process of controlling our desires is largely learnt from parents, teachers etc. But between the ages of three and eight years old, babies are largely unconcious beings. They are fully instilled with SUPER EGO's, which promote guilt, satisfaction and remorse whenever the ID takes control.
The conflict between the ID and SUPER EGO causes stress throughout our lives. The EGO relieves stress by compromise/resolves conflict otherwise we would always stay stressed. Similarly, Psychodynamic counselling is about talking our stresses out, because if we repress certain memories, we will feel stressed. This can lead to reaction formation, which is an expression of anger where a person's repressed feelings surface. A big trauma can be repressed until the stress gets too much, then a person may explode bigtime and repress again until there is too much stress. Unconcious ID's can explode from being repressed and cause multiple personalities. i.e. MPD. A person can create up to seventeen personalities within themselves. However, it is difficult to test the unconcious mind, although the Rorscharch test is a good way, also, white noise.
It is said that healthy people get angry quickly, and also return to normal quickly. (is that me?)
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