Ha ha!!
Hmm. That's an interesting take. It could be very true.
Earlier I theorized a lot about possible, simmering rage and resentment that could've come from not having a fully formed identity, just going through the motions and living someone else's life, doing what was expected but not what he truly desired, which he could not know as he kind of didn't fully exist.
I mean you have to have an identity to really know what you want and to pick the life you want to live.
In no way do I think this cat was truly enraged or on some sort of rampage when he did this.
But I do think he dug deep down for some simmering resentment and deep anger and dissastifaction.
It was interesting when the investigators asked him if he was angry at Shanann and why. He said he was motivated by rage but he couldn't articulate why. He couldn't point to anything real that she actually did to him to upset him. I mean he also said that he killed his kids out of anger but could not explain it. Which maybe makes sense.
I think he may have felt some slight anger or really tried hard at least to drum some up. But he probably mostly felt adrenaline and excitement as he killed his wife as well. I believe him that he was shaking afterward. I don't think a pure and classic psychopath would have been.
But he calmed right back down like a snake on a rock after that and quietly and methodically loaded his car.
His anger at his parents - that's an interesting theory. Others have said the same thing. And it makes sense.
I feel he was likely annihilated by a narcissist. His description of his mother always asking him how he feels but he never expressed anything? That flat effect around one's parents is common for children of borderlines and narcissists because they can't make the wrong move and any expression of individual needs or feelings is met with annihilating rage or consumption. (Those I know who've been through this said they cannot let their parents in at all or ever tell them about their lives because the parents will use whatever they tell them).
He describes his mother as loving but she's shown herself to be anything but- ruining Shanann's bridal shower, not going to the wedding, bad mouthing her, risking her geandchildren's lives with nuts, saying savage things about her murdered daughter in law despite the utter agony it would cause Shanann's family. Making her victim statement all about showing how great her son and her family is and how she is a victim. Making it all about appearance and about her.
She's shown her character in so many ways.
So I think he's leaving a lot out. What he's described of his father and what we've heard from that man likewise shows a dysfunctional person of questionable character to me. He became a coke addict because his son got married and moved? Wth? And he continues to throw his murdered daughter in law under the bus refusing to accept reality?
What was it like being raised by them?
I recall this photo I saw of the family when Chris was little. It was in a YouTube movie about the crimes and flashed quickly on the screen. I rewinded and froze it.
Chris' sister appears much older than he. Chris was quite young. About 8-10. His father wasn't smiling much. Sort of stone faced. His mother and sister had almost identical expressions. Kind of smug, half smiles.
Then there was Chris. The little boy had a super wide and sweet smile. He was the nicest thing in the photo. The very picture of affability, innocence and niceness.
A very good boy.
I think like Scott Peterson he had to play a role in that family. He couldn't express emotion. He couldn't develop a personality.
And maybe indeed he had a simmering anger toward them as well.
It's all so horrible yet interesting to ponder.
I've watched this case because of another case coming up and wanted to see what a trial was like. I'm interested in an attorney's take is on my theory: maybe even a psychiatrist.
My belief in a nutshell. I do not think Chris Watts falls in the category of a classic sociopath. They have no remorse for things. Chris does show extreme emotion with things (and maybe it's not just a case of remorse for getting caught): sometimes the seeming lack of emotion could be an extreme emotion in and of itself. I believe in my heart of hearts that he has something similar if not the exact traits of a person with Borderline Personality Disorder. A person develops BPD in child hood and the connections for one reason or another in the brain itself do not connect like the average person without BPD. Many borderlines have a smaller hippocampus
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cited one case study:
Hippocampus and amygdala volumes in patients with borderline personality disorder with or without posttraumatic stress disorder
"Results
Hippocampus volumes of patients with BPD and PTSD were smaller than those of healthy controls. However, there was no significant difference between patients with BPD but without PTSD and controls. Impulsiveness was positively correlated with hippocampus volumes in patients with BPD."
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Cited from another source:
Low Empathy Associated with Borderline Personality Disorder
“Our results showed that people with BPD traits had reduced activity in brain regions that support empathy,” said the study’s lead author Dr. Brian Haas, an assistant professor in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences psychology department.
“This reduced activation may suggest that people with more BPD traits have a more difficult time understanding and/or predicting how others feel, at least compared to individuals with fewer BPD traits.”
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I'm wondering if his upbringing crossed the line to where his parents treatment were beyond the threshold of that to where if he is indeed suseptable to developing BPD that it was considered a "Traumatizing Experience for him". If he indeed has a malformation to where the hippocampus volume is smaller then there might be a viable explanation to all the questions everyone is seeking with this man. People who have no clue what happens in the BORDERLINE MIND and EMOTIONS will NOT under any circumstances understand the anger and rage totally especially with that lack of empathy that is involved with the disease. I have BPD and I've experienced such a rage before that could have ended in disastrous results. The PTSD with the trauma suffered in child hood could very well have been a missed diagnosis or even today could be diagnosed by a trained professional as latent onset PTSD. Or even Latent Onset Complex PTSD.
IMHO This man had a very controlling mother who was manipulitive to the point of placing her own grandchildren in harms way just to get her way, which I will cite that she placed peanuts on a table, in which one of her own grandchildren was deathly allergic to, while the children were outside to spite her DIL because she wanted to be in control for her own selfish purposes. That is really showing me how this women doesn't care who she hurts in the long run to make her point or get her own way. What mother upon meeting the mother of her son's fiancée for the first time would dare speak down on another mother's child like she did about SW to her mother?
THEN A man marries a woman like "his mother". (A woman marry's a man like her father). Sociological studies state that. CW Marries SW (NOT SPEAKING DOWN ON THE WOMAN HERE I'm going by what has been said in the past but I do have respect in every way for her). SW was controlling for a very different reason. Instead of selfish desires or gain, her reasons for being like that was definately beyond a doubt for the health and well-being of her family. Whether she was obsessive with it I don't know. IMHO. She was a great woman....a good find! A KEEPER! She knew how to get things done.
THEN CW goes and confuses himself with an affair with a woman of a different type. He got his freedom with her. THEN SHE gets upset with him and deletes all his messages because he never told her about the baby. Which is HUGE! So I don't blame her ...although I do blame her for continuing an affair with a married man which I absolutely no doubt feel she knew about. As soon as she found out that should have been it.
He has TWO WOMEN who are in his life supposed to be THE MOST IMPORTANT women in a man's life: his wife and his mother bickering and fighting. (I am not placing blame. I'm just looking at it through his eyes). His escape using a woman was this woman he had an affair with and then SHE was angry. SO every woman in his life is angry.
HE IS NOT SEEING what is going on. ALL HE KNOWS is all this anger around him.
(THOSE POOR LITTLE GIRLS THROUGH THIS BECAUSE this was affecting them moreso than it was for CW and then ....I won't even go there because it breaks my heart).
ALL THIS MOO as a person with BPD....now... to explain this to others without it....a doors hinges comes loose....you are there tightening that screw to get that door on better. A person with borderline is replacing the whole door. A person without borderline their emotions from all intense purposes fluctuate throughout the day on a scale from one to ten from four to five or six back down to a four........with borderline those same emotions you are feeling go from a two to a five up to an eight or nine back down to a two. If we get stuck on one of the two extremes it's bad. WITH ANGER being that emotion being stuck up there on the nine I really can see this all happening exactly the way CW explains in this latest video with the anger from that said argument lingering even with the children especially since those precious little faces did resemble SW more that CW.
I am satisfied he's telling the truth here. I don't need to have an explanation other than the fact that he stated: He was angry. MOST PEOPLE do NOT kill when they are angry...they delete texts, they rip up photos, they work out (which I would have liked to see CW work out)...anything other than harming, especially an innocent precious little one. I have no doubt he loved every single one of them too. Hence the back and forth of why he didn't save them. (spare their lives would be a better description). CW probably doesn't understand why he couldn't stop himself. He probably has never been to a psychiatrist or therapist lest it is now in prison.
............MOST WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THIS with mental health issues...none of it.
I'd like to see him get his brain tested and all that for his own personal understanding and for the understanding of the family's and friends on both sides of the courtroom to get a better answer.
The brain of a borderline does misfire and is seen on those tests. Too the hippocampus can be measured.
I'm not excusing what he did I'm just trying to shed light on it.
Most of this is MOO and My guess is as good as yours without the personal experience of having BPD I could never be able to understand that anger either...but it is indeed like CW stated...it's beyond an anger...it's a rage.
God bless and my heart goes out to each and every family member in this case. I have no answers as there have been instances to where even the most hardened criminal has been forgiven by his maker on his literal death bed in a sentence carried out. I am no judge only our maker can make those determinations. ~Marie
