First, Dahmer wasn’t a cartoon villain. He was a deeply troubled human with a voyage of psychological shipwrecks. He had borderline personality disorder, paraphilic disorders, and a severe lack of social connection. Sounds grim, right? But understanding why he broke down reveals why you don’t have to.
His brain didn’t just go “wrong” one day—it was a slow, sad erosion of emotional wiring. He craved intimacy but had zero tools to build it. Spoiler: you have those tools, even if you don’t realize it yet.
