I began to yawn uncontrollably on the way there, which apparently is what dogs do when anxious - they yawn uncontrollably. Once I arrived, the staff took me through gate after gate until, eventually, we got to the wellness center – the place where you get to meet the patients. It looks eerily like nice but not so nice hotel. Everything is beige and peach and calming colors. The only things that stood out was the neon red of the panic buttons on the walls. The patients started wandering in; they were all wearing sweatpants and looked quite docile. They are all medicated, I assume.
The next man to walk in was quite different than those who came before him. He was in good physical shape. He wasn’t wearing sweatpants; he had on a pinstripe suit. He …show more content…
"You know, I've got the Stockwell Strangler on one side of me, and the The Yorkshire Ripper on the other side so I tend to stay in my room because I find them quite frightening. But they take that as a sign of madness too. They say it proves I'm aloof and grandiose.” So, only in Broadmoor, a place for the criminally insane, would not wanting to hang out with serial killers be a sign of madness.
He seemed completely normal to me, but what did I know? So, when I got home I emailed his clinician I asked, "What's the story?"
He explained Bryan’s case to me: "We accept that Bryan faked madness to get out of a prison sentence, because his hallucinations, which seemed cliché to begin with, disappeared the minute arrived at Broadmoor. However, we have since assessed him, and we've determined he is a psychopath.”
And in fact, as I later found out, faking madness is exactly the kind of cunning and manipulative act of a psychopath. It is on the checklist: cunning and manipulative. So, faking that you are mad, is proof that you have, sincerely, gone mad. Now, out of my own journalistic curiosity, I spoke to a few other experts, and they said the pinstripe suit he wore when I met him was a classic indicator of a psychopath - it spoke to multiple items on the psychopath checklist: glibness, superficial charm and grandiose sense of self-worth. So at this point I asked "Well, why didn't he hang out with the other
The next man to walk in was quite different than those who came before him. He was in good physical shape. He wasn’t wearing sweatpants; he had on a pinstripe suit. He …show more content…
"You know, I've got the Stockwell Strangler on one side of me, and the The Yorkshire Ripper on the other side so I tend to stay in my room because I find them quite frightening. But they take that as a sign of madness too. They say it proves I'm aloof and grandiose.” So, only in Broadmoor, a place for the criminally insane, would not wanting to hang out with serial killers be a sign of madness.
He seemed completely normal to me, but what did I know? So, when I got home I emailed his clinician I asked, "What's the story?"
He explained Bryan’s case to me: "We accept that Bryan faked madness to get out of a prison sentence, because his hallucinations, which seemed cliché to begin with, disappeared the minute arrived at Broadmoor. However, we have since assessed him, and we've determined he is a psychopath.”
And in fact, as I later found out, faking madness is exactly the kind of cunning and manipulative act of a psychopath. It is on the checklist: cunning and manipulative. So, faking that you are mad, is proof that you have, sincerely, gone mad. Now, out of my own journalistic curiosity, I spoke to a few other experts, and they said the pinstripe suit he wore when I met him was a classic indicator of a psychopath - it spoke to multiple items on the psychopath checklist: glibness, superficial charm and grandiose sense of self-worth. So at this point I asked "Well, why didn't he hang out with the other