Anders Breivik

Anders Breivik was formally charged with the massacre of 77 people in Norway. This horrendous crime shocked the world. During his trial I was shocked that the issue of his mental health arose. Paranoid Schizophrenia was the mental illness Peter Sutcliffe claimed to have during his trial for the murders of 13 women in Leeds, Bradford and other northern cities.
Perhaps due to the fact that I have some experience of mental illness it is quite clear to me the difference between a psychopath and someone in mental ill health. The psychopath does not suffer from halucinations or any of the other symptoms associated with schizophrenia. The psychopath is logical, often passes by through life unnoticed. Some are very successful. There are those that believe psychopaths are more successful in business and politics than those of us without personality disporders as they have little or no conscience.
Essentially that is the distinction. Psychopathy is not a mental illness it is a personality disorder. It doesn't come and go. It is the true nature of the incurable psychopath.
Having seen footage of Breivik talking it is clear he is quite without remorse. He believes he did no wrong. He will never 'get better'. He is not mentally ill.