Mental Illness In Serial Killers

Albert Einstein once said “Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.” Giving a criminal a device to search anyone in the entire world, can be an end to someone’s life. Criminals find way to make themselves feel better, whether it’s hurting others or themselves. There are many reasons on the possibility behind the criminal of violent perpetrators; those reasons being, they could have a mental illness, they lost people they cared about, or maybe they’re not in their right minds. Many people do have mental illnesses, but some of those people do not commit crimes. It varies because it depends what had happened in their lives. The main mental illness that criminals mainly have is schizophrenia. “Schizophrenia—a wide-ranging (and often misdiagnosed) mental illness—lists symptoms ranging from hallucination and delusions to emotional flatness and catatonia. It is one of the most common mental disorders diagnosed among criminals, especially serial killers.”(Dangerous Minds 2013-2015). Although, this illness can be treated so

Serial killers have different vibes than the rest of the individuals. In other words, they have something encoded/implanted something in their brain to make them do what they do. “The most broadly recognized mental disorder associated with serial killing is Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD).”(Pemmet 2013). This is also one of the mental conditions, they have a trait that manipulates and exploits people. It was also said that the murderer has a low heart rate which can cause the brain to act differently than anybody else. “Schizoid and Schizotypy personality disorders are known to share similarities with schizophrenia, but again, on their own the probability of them being implicated in serial murder is low to nonexistent.” (Pemment 2013). Some symptoms are alike and it’s very hard to tell which disorder they