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Sadistic inclinations - to recognize and heal in time.

There is a category of people whose interests in life are reduced to enjoying the humiliation and torment of other people. The propensity for cruelty that accompanies the behavior of such a person is called "sadism".

Psychiatry classifies sadism as a personality disorder and considers it an antisocial phenomenon.

It was found that a person is not born a sadist, but becomes one in the process of life, usually associated with similar cruelty. The reasons for the development of sadistic inclinations come from childhood, when the human psyche is very vulnerable, absorbs negative emotions, fixes them at the unconscious level and transforms them into various forms of violence.

The development of sadism as a personality trait does not depend on the quality of upbringing, but can be closely related to the methods of the upbringing process. Excessive severity in relation to the child, disproportionate punishments, not experienced and not meaningful grievances, threats of physical violence and its use for educational purposes are quite capable of inflicting mental trauma on a growing little person, deforming the psyche and developing aggression in him, which in the future will be directed to the external Wednesday.

Signs of sadism are visible to any person who is not versed in the intricacies of psychiatry, but are often misjudged until a particular person becomes a victim of such violence. There are several forms of manifestation of sadism:

Psychological abuse when a sadist regularly speaks out or does things that humiliate or offend another person.
Sexual abuse, when a sadist takes pleasure by inflicting suffering on his partner.
Inflicting bodily harm on another living creature in order to gain power over the victim and assert oneself at this expense.

A person can show sadistic inclinations not with everyone, but only in the presence of those people (or, as a rule, one person) whom he considers to be weaker psychologically and physically. For this reason, the victims of the sadist are most often animals, children, and females who cannot (or the sadist believes that they cannot) provide adequate resistance. Sadistic tendencies, manifested in the family, put all household members in the position of a victim.

Signs of sadistic tendencies can manifest as:

dislike of animals,
the desire to conduct experiments with living organisms that are dangerous to the life of the latter,
disrespectful or abusive behavior with individuals of the opposite sex (selective victims, not everyone in a row),
painful play on the feelings of another person,
deliberate destruction of other people's plans and hopes,
unmotivated vindictiveness,
contempt for some people,
desire to rule over someone,
slander, deceiving another person to cause trouble,
and many other actions that others may mistakenly regard as bad character traits, and not a mental disorder.

Psychotherapists undertake to treat sadistic tendencies, but the effectiveness of treatment is always in question, since there are no drugs that block the craving for violence. Psychiatry notes that sadistic tendencies are often akin to sexual disorder, that is, they originate in sexual attraction. Therefore, the methods of psychotherapy of sadism are similar to the methods of treatment of sexual dysfunctions.

It is extremely difficult to correct the psyche of a sadist, because his psychology has been formed for many years in conditions of trauma (psychological or physical), and it is impossible to reverse this process.

A person with sadistic inclinations who becomes a threat to members of society is restricted in freedom of movement. Victims of a psychological or sexual sadist are advised to move long distances from their tormentor. In cases of active persecution of his victim by the sadist, he is prescribed by law a prohibition on approach.