are you psychotic?

[Mr. Tea]

I've deliberately not looked at other people's answers for this.

I reckon the man, who knew the mother, was a witness to the other sister murdering the mother, and the sister's crime is motivated by revenge.

Edit: or, and this has just occurred to me, the mother's death is a red herring - the woman acts out of pity as her sister is terminally ill and the man she's met is a doctor who does assisted suicides on the sly, and gives his new lover a vial of something that'll allow her to facilitate a quick and painless death for her cancer-riddedn sibling.

I think this answer qualifies me as almost pathalogically sensitive and nice and quite likely to write a novel that will sell moderately well to middle-class housewives.

 

[noel emits]

Is it that the more elaborate your answer the more completely radio rental you are?

 

[noel emits]

i didn't think so? thought it was a real criteria...

It might, according to the ever reliable internet, be a quote by Einstein, or possibly Benjamin Franklin.

 

[zhao]

well T is not psychotic... but something else probably just as bad

 

[swears]

A child molester perhaps?

 

[zhao]

perhaps.

 

[mistersloane]

mother of 2 sisters die. at the funeral, one of the sisters meets a man and they have an amazing love affair. afterwards, she goes home and kills her sister. why?

blatantly 'cos she's a murdering psychotic who listens to dubstep.

 

[Lichen]

she realised that family was a brake on her happiness

 

[Mr. Tea]

blatantly 'cos she's a murdering psychotic who listens to dubstep.

Or grime - it was all that gun-talk and GM SUPERSKUNK!!!!11 that sent her over the edge.

 

[zhao]

Or grime

yeah because she dissed her on her new record. and after ALL she has DONE for the ungrateful bitch ALL these YEARS!

i mean who does she thinks she is? been gettin some P and all of a sudden turn on her own sister? SOMEbody had to do SOMEthing.

 

[fokse vektaire xeven]

i see one correct answer staring at me on this page...

staring at you...THROUGH THE SCREEN...

this old chestnut predates the internet (or at least my awareness of it predates my awareness of the internet) and has about as much genuine foundation in current academic thinking as:

<a href="http://s167.photobucket.com/albums/u133/exeryad/?action=view&current=understanding.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u133/exeryad/understanding.jpg" border="0" ></a>

Even if we were to give this any credence, it would more properly be a test to determine a tendency toward pyschoPATHology- ie a lack of human empathy. the idea being those that presuppose a relation between the sister and the man are at least being empathic. Psychosis has no necessary relation to violent behaviour and the two terms cannot be used interchangeably...

back in the real world, i was psychologically assessed as a child and went through the whole thing with pictures that could be interpreted a number of ways and all that shit. does anyone know if this methodology is still in use? it has surely been so widely disseminated / parodied etc as to be entirely useless as an indicator of the psychological state of all but the most catastrophically unaware...i can recall my wariness of the test even as a child.


EDIT: the best insight i've had into psychopathology was seeing joel rifkind interviewed. on his murders:

"They occurred in front of me".

 

[IdleRich]

Er, if anyone is still interested it's because she will meet the man again at her sister's funeral as he is presumably someone close enough to come to family funerals but whom she doesn't tend to see that often. Obviously.

 

[tryptych]

sorry about that - PM box cleared.

i see one correct answer staring at me on this page... and the version i know is a little bit different from the one on the urban legends page. not sure if i trust what that page says anyhow because it equates psychopathy with sociopathy, and from what i understand sociopathy is a form of psychopathy...

and no gek, the correct answer is actually not tricky, it's the most logical one actually... albeit maybe a wonky logic.

Sociopathy and psychopathy are technically the same thing, at least from a psychology point of view. The difference is what you believe the causes of the abnormal behaviour are - psychopaths are people who are born with neurological defect of some kind, whereas sociopaths are people who's aberrant behaviour is caused by social factors. It's basically a nature/nurture choice.

Although there's dissenters to that view, naturally.

 

[zhao]

so false alarm. turns out Foxy knew about this thing and was pulling my leg.

or was he...

tell us why you were extensively psychologically profiled as a child?

 

[mms]

my mates girlfriend got this right or a version of it straight away which was well scary for him, i think he was right to be scared from what i remember too.

i met a girl who's job it was to try and get psychopaths rehabilitated for normal life - in the same way that stn says - fully aware that they are psychopaths, she has to train them to act like they're not and remember to behave that way, even if they don;t understand why the really have to, so weird

 

[noel emits]

Wait, psychotic is not the same as psychopathic.

 

[mms]

Wait, psychotic is not the same as psychopathic.

corrected that.

 

[bruno]

fokse, that's a great scan. incest was the first thing that entered my mind, actually. so what is it, zhao? is it about the inheritance?

 

[gek-opel]

Wait, psychotic is not the same as psychopathic.

Yup, a psychopath will seem totally normal, until they hideously fuck you over without a second thought once they can get away with it. The Psychotic will just sit there banging on about the queen chasing them around Berkshire.

 

[zhao]

incest was the first thing that entered my mind, actually. so what is it, zhao? is it about the inheritance?

foxy got it right (because he heard it before or so he claims): to meet another man at her sister's funeral.