Why is bed wetting in relation to serial killers?
Saturday, July 24th, 2010 at
6:03 am
Michelle asked:
I’ve read bed wetting can also be linked with anti-social disorder, but I don’t understand the link in behavior at all. What behavior does bed wetting go along with to match such possible things in the first place?
PS. I’m not saying every bed wetter turns into a serial killer of course, don’t be silly. However, bed wetting is part of the MacDonald triad and I was wondering why.
I’ve read bed wetting can also be linked with anti-social disorder, but I don’t understand the link in behavior at all. What behavior does bed wetting go along with to match such possible things in the first place?
PS. I’m not saying every bed wetter turns into a serial killer of course, don’t be silly. However, bed wetting is part of the MacDonald triad and I was wondering why.
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I wet the bed, and I’m a serial killer. Gotta be true.
That’s pretty much an urban legend. There are millions of people who had problems with bed-wetting growing up and never became anti-social or sociopathic.
I think i wetted the bed until i was like 6-7 and i’m not a serial killer.
There are many traits that, when considered in relation to each other, can sometimes make up a “formula” that forensic psychologists might use in order to determine sociopathic behavior.
Yes, most bed wetters are not serial killers.
However, if most serial killers were bed wetters then that would be an interesting correlation.
Not everyone with anti-social disorder is a serial killer! Very few are! *ahem*
Persistent bed-wetting as children is a symptom according to the MacDonald Triad, but there is insufficient evidence for it to be in the DSM as of yet. They are correlated with diagnosed adults, but the number of kids who show this trait that go on to develop an Anti-Social Disorder is unknown.
It may be a side effect (they feel less shame and remose than other children – harder to toilet train) or contrariness. Or linked to poor impulse control. They appear to be mainly focused on whether or not it *is* linked rather than finding out why…
EDIT: WHY it’s in the traid is simply because he found a correlation between bedwetting (firestarting and cruelty to animals) and adult criminals diagnosed with ASD. He didn’t come up with a reason for it, then look for evidence.
It’s not a causal link – bed wetting doesn’t cause serial killers. If more serial killers turn out to have been bed wetters than non-serial-killers, there might be some kind of link.
It could be that being having a mental disorder causes bed wetting, or something else causes both the mental disorder and bed wetting – such as anxiety, insecurity or fear.
There’s more than one reason for bed wetting, so it’s not very useful information for predicting future serial killers.
Enuresis or bed wetting IS a major factor in serial killer. In a report filed by the International Association of forensic Science they reported that more than 60% of Serial Killers were still bedwetting over the age of 12. But this is also combined with multiple other things. Just because a child wets the bed doesnt mean he/she will become a serial killer. But mix a child that wets the bed with a mother that ridicules him for it, possibly abuses him with it, you will get a child that acts out usually causing the other traits such as hurting animals, setting fires, failing in school and a delusional mind. All of these lead to a serial killer. Not any one alone usually.