Rates of uxoricide Of the 2340 deaths at the hands of intimate partners in the US in 2007, female victims made up 70%. FBI data from the mid-1970s to mid-1980s found that for every 100 husbands who killed their wives in the United States, about 75 women killed their husbands.

A 2015 study published in The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology found that the most common motive for female serial killers was for financial gain and almost 40% of them had experienced some sort of mental illness.

Mariticide (from Latin maritus “husband” + -cide, from caedere “to cut, to kill”) literally means the killing of one’s husband or boyfriend. It can refer to the act itself or the person who carries it out.

The passion provoked by adultery empowers the court to exempt from punishment for the crimes of homicide and injury, provided that the following conditions are present: The offense is committed by one spouse against the other spouse whom he or she has caught in the act, or against the lover.

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Sadism is a condition in which people get pleasure from humiliating or hurting others. Often the pleasure is of a sexual kind. Sade’s books include many characters who find pleasure in cruelty, including torture and even murder.

A serial killer is typically a person who murders three or more people, usually in service of abnormal psychological gratification, with the murders taking place over more than a month and including a significant period of time between them. The murders may be attempted or completed in a similar fashion.

Failures of empathy: The killer with no remorse (Psychopathy)…

Alexithymia is a personality trait characterized by the subclinical inability to identify and describe emotions experienced by one’s self or others. The core characteristic of alexithymia is marked dysfunction in emotional awareness, social attachment, and interpersonal relation.

Alexithymia is not a condition in its own right, but rather an inability to identify and describe emotions. People with alexithymia have difficulties recognizing and communicating their own emotions, and they also struggle to recognize and respond to emotions in others….

Depression and anxiety are two of the most common causes. Severe levels of acute elevated stress or nervousness can also trigger feelings of emotional numbness. Post-traumatic stress disorder, which can be tied to depression and anxiety, can cause you to feel numb, too.

Apathy is when you lack motivation to do anything or just don’t care about what’s going on around you. Apathy can be a symptom of mental health problems, Parkinson’s disease, or Alzheimer’s disease. It often lasts a long time. You may lack the desire to do anything that involves thinking or your emotions….

Depersonalization disorder is one of a group of conditions called dissociative disorders. Dissociative disorders are mental illnesses that involve disruptions or breakdowns of memory, consciousness, awareness, identity, and/or perception. When one or more of these functions is disrupted, symptoms can result….

Because the disorder is widely considered to be a psychological phenomenon, as opposed to the result of a chemical imbalance in the brain, drug treatments such as antidepressants are often ineffective….

Derealization is one of a range of symptoms coexisting in a panic attack. Some youth who have panic attacks don’t experience derealization but for those who do, it can cause them to think, “I’m going crazy,” or, “Something is horribly wrong with me.” Fortunately, they are not going crazy and probably are quite healthy.

The symptoms associated with depersonalization disorder often go away. They may resolve on their own or after treatment to help deal with symptom triggers. Treatment is important so that the symptoms don’t come back….

If someone close to you is experiencing symptoms of DDD, there are several things you can do to offer support:

1. Read up on the condition.
2. Validate their experience.
3. Offer to go to a therapy session with them.
4. Understand it might be hard for them to reach out for help.
5. Respect their boundaries.

Psychotherapy, also called counseling or talk therapy, is the main treatment. The goal is to gain control over the symptoms so that they lessen or go away. Two such psychotherapies include cognitive behavioral therapy and psychodynamic therapy….

According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), other substances, including hallucinogens (LSD, psilocybin mushrooms), ketamine, Ecstasy (MDMA), and salvia may trigger derealization/depersonalization episodes….