Originally posted by: Tiptup
Not just any personality disorder. I've been arguing for a long time that Anakin (of the PT) displayed all the signs of a bona fide psychopath. For instance, he regularly showed a complete inability to balance his own personal desires with those of the people around him; there were many times that he had extreme reactions to relatively tame problems, but those reactions only seemed to come when those problems affected his own happiness. Also, he only seemed to care for the wellbeing of others when they served as emotional supports for him, and the minute they stopped serving as such even slightly, he reacted in extremely violent ways against them, no matter how close his relationship to them had been previously. When it came to the lives of strangers and innocents, he had no trouble murdering them without empathy or remorse. Just one sick puppy all around.
Not just any personality disorder. I've been arguing for a long time that Anakin (of the PT) displayed all the signs of a bona fide psychopath. For instance, he regularly showed a complete inability to balance his own personal desires with those of the people around him; there were many times that he had extreme reactions to relatively tame problems, but those reactions only seemed to come when those problems affected his own happiness. Also, he only seemed to care for the wellbeing of others when they served as emotional supports for him, and the minute they stopped serving as such even slightly, he reacted in extremely violent ways against them, no matter how close his relationship to them had been previously. When it came to the lives of strangers and innocents, he had no trouble murdering them without empathy or remorse. Just one sick puppy all around.
My wife is a preschool teacher. Anakin exhibits, with massive regularity, the behavior typical of a three-year-old. What is curious is that such behavior was less evident when he first appeared in the Jar Jar Menace and increased with time.