PDs most certainly ARE treatable in as such that one can at least learn to live with the problems they cause and, in many cases, overcome the anxieties they cause too! Sure, it requires varying degress of medicinal intervention for some, and differing proportions between that and therapy, but CBT has a proven success rate with different forms of personality disorder - apologies if I'm seeming picky or defensive - I, like Flimb, just want to try and battle against the causes of stigma associated with "mental illness" - the biggest cause is ignorance (not meant in a nasty way - just meant as "lack of sufficient knowledge". Grouping the words "psycopathic" and "personality disorder" together is dangerous as it encourages further misconception. I would say that most people are capable of doing "bad things" - in the case of "pure-o OCD" for example, the distinction between a sufferer and non-sufferer would be that the sufferer endures varying degrees of anxiety relating to the guilt felt for being able to imagine the act and its consequences - whereas you, an apparently "normal" person, could easily dismiss a flash of a "bad" thought in a similar situation - it then causes you no stress. Big difference and very hard to explain to someone who doesn't experience the full effects/consequences. However, this does not mean the sufferer is psychopathic! I would recommend some people read a course 101-type book on mental illness.......................a mental health diagnostic manual would cover such problems as "mild depression" and, as batsgirl quite rightly said in the previous entry's comments, there is a difference between "clinical" depression (for example) and non clinical. Under the definition you appear to be using, up to 67% of the UK is "mad"! Now THAT's insane..........and potentially harmful. Lecture over. Soap box away. Fancy a pint?! :)