Quotes About Character disorders

In unusual cases they may come to act out criminal activities with an absence of guilt because they believe the world somehow owes them what they missed in childhood. The absence of moral considerations or poorly developed conscience seen in character disorders, delinquent, and criminal individuals follows from this type of victimized thinking:

It is said that "neurotics make themselves miserable; those with character disorders make everyone else miserable." Chief among the people character-disordered parents make miserable are their children. As in other areas of their lives, they fail to assume adequate responsibility for their parenting. They tend to brush off their children in thousands of little ways rather than provide them with needed attention.