My daughter hates everyone

prezbucky
Sat, 18 Aug 2012 18:24:19 +0000

You’ll want to find out if this is just an extreme case of adolescence/hazing/acceptance issues. Maybe she is extremely smart, so she hates teachers who explain, over and over again, things that she gets the first time (in which case, she is being inconsiderate of her less-intelligent classmates); and (as someone else mentioned) maybe she “hates” classmates out of the fear of rejection (self-esteem issues or experiential factors), cruelty at the hands of some (whose likely arbitrary meanness she has interpreted as true rejection, and she is transferring that onto everyone else), or perhaps she sees herself as being “above” everyone else, which would be narcissism.

If she is functional otherwise, she’s not suffering from psychosis, which is a good thing; unmedicated psychotics cannot control themselves, basically – what they do, what they think they hear, what they think, etc. (schizophrenia)

The #2 “worst thing” (and #1 worst thing for the rest of society) would be Antisocial Personality Disorder, AKA Sociopathy… but if she isn’t abusing small animals, or picking nonsensical fights/beating people up, or stealing all the time, or cheating all the time, etc., then probably you don’t have to worry about that.
Echoing most others, I think that probably your best bet to figuring this out is to sit down with a professional who is capable of getting real answers from her.