Psychopathics Are The Biggest Positions Of Power In Dictators

However much you may deny it, psychopathics are more common than people may think. They are just another person on this world. A psychopath it defined as a person suffering from a chronic mental disorder with abnormal or violent social behavior. These traits are often seen in police officers, prison guards, and CEO’s of major corporations. There is one thing these professions all have in common: power
Complete power can change a person virtually overnight. One of the biggest positions of power is the leader of a country, for example dictators. They are the prime examples of a psychopaths. Dictators have complete control over their country and make every little decision. Because of their job, dictators get very paranoid and almost lose control of their own mind. This should
hopefully show you into the mind of a psychopathic dictator.
Let's start with the fact that dictators compulsive liars.
John Ashley Cloud, senior writer at Time Magazine and Harvard Grad, states that “dictators not only lie to others as a matter of course but also lie to themselves”. Cloud quotes Oxford historian, Robert Service, in saying “If ever [Stalin] called somebody a traitor, it was not only the minds of others he was manipulating”. For example, Muammar Gaddafi, Former Prime Minister or Dictator of Libya, believed that the existence of society revolved around him. Gaddafi is on record saying “All my people are with me. They will die to protect me.”
On top of being liars, dictators are unmerciful murders. They have the same mentality of a serial killer. Dictators seem to lack any feelings at all. If you commare a dictator to a murder, there is no difference; if anything, dictators are abundantly worst. John Wayne Gacy used a variety of tools to torture his victims over many hours, bring them back to consciousness after they pass out, then eventually showing mercy by killing them. While Joseph Stalin may not have physically done these things, he did call for the murder of anywhere for 3 million to 60 million of his own people with no
remorses. Men with an extreme amount of power do not usually only have one mental disorder. Some of the most common mental illnesses seen in dictators include Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) or Megalomania, Depression, Schizophrenia (a failure to understand what is real), Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), Severe Attachment Disorder, Paranoid Personality Disorder (PPD), and Bipolar Disorder. Since these illnesses were so horrible, many leader and dictators found drugs as a way to cope with there many issues. For example, Hermann Göring, Commander of the Luftwaffe, was addicted to morphine and Adolf Hitler was hooked to methamphetamine and oxycodone.
Pretty much every dictator that has ever lived was paranoid in one way or another. Powerful people become more willing to take credit for accomplishments they did not do. Because of this, dictators see themselves as heroic and anyone that thinks differently is against the country. They will sometimes hire subordinates that take “toxic minds” out of the controlled society. Dictator lose the ability to see what they are are actually doing. So when the murder of a free thinker is ordered, a dictator actually believes that he is protecting his people for someone that could harm his country.
Most dictators fear the uprising of their citizens. That is another reason why they feel they must stop all rebels before a civil war begins. Dictators will not change how their people are being treated by the government, they will just get rid of someone who is “wrong”. Dr. Seth Davin Norrholm, Assistant Professor Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Emory University, has studied the paranoia and anxiety of the most powerful dictators. Norrholm says that Saddam Hussein, former President/Dictator of Iraq, was so paranoid he had people make meals for him all over the country just incase he couldn't be in a dangerous place for a meal. Kim Jong-il exhibited an excessive fear of assassination and Than Shwe (Former Prime Minister of Burma) moved the capital of Burma to a remote forest with no running water or electricity out of fear of retaliation.
Most prominent issue in dictators, far as paranoia goes, is a mental disorder known as narcissistic personality disorder or NPD. Norrholm defines NPD as a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, a need for admiration and a lack of empathy for others. People with this disorder have an inflated sense of their own importance. NPD causes problems in areas like relationships, work, school, and financial affairs. They are basically dysfunctional as human beings.
Every dictator starts off as a normal, everyday person. They unfortunately develop mental disorders in extraordinary circumstances form holding so much absolute power. John Clouds states that Robert Mugabe, former President of Zimbabwe, was a “a polite ascetic as a young man”. Peter Godwin points out in his book, The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe, that absolute power corrupted Mugabe. A normal brain does not have the ability to wield absolute power.
As seen in in history, absolute power changes a person from good to evil. The brain almost rewires itself which will permanently ruin a person's brain function. In 1971, volunteers and students of Stanford University took part in a two week experiment. Some where prisoners, while others were prison guards. The guards were given little to no training and were told that they had absolute power over the prisoner. The experiment was ended only six days in because of how brutal the guards were to the prisoners. With their absolute power, these guards when from nice, average, everyday people to violent, psychopaths.
Most psychopaths and dictators have a dysfunctional extender amygdala. The extended amygdala is just behind the eyebrows and next to the neocortex in the temporal and frontal lobes. Dr. James H. Fallon, Professor of psychiatry and human behavior and emeritus professor of anatomy and neurobiology in the University of California, states that the extended amygdala is the key node in the brain circuit that mediates "animal instincts" and it contributes to making 2 percent of the world's population psychopaths. Only a small number of the most versatile and talented of these become dictators. The amygdala is a major center that regulates fear, rage, sexual desire, and emotional memories. In some individuals, the amygdala can be so poorly developed that it creates an extreme pattern of dependency.