Definitions of disheartened on the Web:   * demoralized: made less hopeful or enthusiastic; desperate demoralized people looking for work; felt discouraged by the â¦magnitude of the problem ... wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn  * Deprived of hope, despairing en.wiktionary.org/wiki/disheartened.
He believes that psychopathy is more of a category than a dimension. This means that someone either is or is not a psychopath. Notably, other researchers disagree and believe that psychopathic traits fall on a continuum. How common is psychopathy? Hare estimates that about 50 - 75% of the prison population meet criteria for antisocial personality disorder but only 15-25% exceed the cut-off point for psychopathy. Hare also estimates that psychopaths make up about 1% of the general population.
The genetic and hereditary aspects of this disorder are of interest to me. I am sure that my father is a psychopath, and it seems that my half brother (fatherâs son), and my full brother display psychopathic traits. However, my younger brother and older brother display milder behaviors and traits. believe psychopathy/sociopathy is genetic. I have two children, raised the same way. One is neurotic, sensitive, conscientious, too feeling; the other meets all of Dr Hareâs criteria for psychopathy. From the time she was born she was different.