I’ve had rthe experience of knowing someone who’s reported really bad experiences with the people they know who treated them badly who then behaved psychopathically in a social service setting.
I’ve seen people’s life outlooks turn around working social service as they realize they don’t have it the worst in comparison with other people with developmental disabilities & mental illnesses who also depend on them. The new perspective and having other people need them has helped people’s lives who have been addicted, formerly in the drug trade, etc. With psychopathy people can have an exception like with children where they are able to care for to a degree until they feel the person or children “cross” them, often as teens or adults. In social service the people may look after the people under their care until it conflicts with their own agenda, or may focus only on getting power by kissing up & trashing anyone they see as rivals or potential rivals.
People with high levels of sociopathy can find actually doing jobs including like social service boring. They instead immediately upon hiring look to expand their power by kising up & kicking down. Rather than feel pleasure at service to others or in a job well done they have reportedly been measured as having four time greater dopamine release when they gain favor from people higher in the power structure & reduce the power of others, often by blaming others for their own neglect of their job.
Psychotherapy is not recommended because it has been associated with increased criminal acts as the people with psychopathy use what they learned to try to hurt others more in order to gain power.
Reading up on psychopathy is very enlightening as to a very different way of some people’s feeling & not feeling about other people & helps warn & arm us against the destruction they so often cause in people’s lives when they find it advantages them slightly. Whether by genetics, upbringing, or family/friends social culture people don’t ask to not have normal caring for others but are responsible to learn to act with caring for others safety, autonomy, & happiness.
