Topic: Are you a sociopath - psychopath? (Read 1650 times)

Finding the normal one is a challenge although true enough ^_^

Its only just occurred to me, but Brady was of course a psychopath himself - so everything he says has to be taken with a pinch of salt. But I must say, it does have the ring of truth about it.
   Hindley was said to have had a strict and hard father who beat her. Not uncommon this in those days - a "leathering" was par for the course in many households. So I personally am not wholly convinced by this as an explanation, in itself, for her later behaviour. I'm no clinician but I would be interested to know the role of hormones in personality development, in particular abnormal personalities.

...except ,of course, they wouldn't generally win the match because they don't have the ability to learn from their own mistakes to quite the same extent as a well adjusted human being - delusions of grandeur etc

Well usually woman who turn out to be serial killers have a history of being abused by men and have huge daddy issues, so they usually tend to try get affection from men in any way they can and sex is one of those ways. Abusive men then take advantage of this and fuck them up mentally even more and the cycle continues.

I think all my ex girlfriends have been sociopaths lol.

Does anyone here like snooker ? The world championship is on at the minute in Sheffield. Terry Griffiths is doing a bit of commentary - I like Terry, he's a philosopher of the green baize.
      Reason I mention it is that earlier on today Terry was trying to explain (understand) what happens psychologically when the game of a player collapses - and in snooker it is always some kind of mental collapse that makes the top professional lose. He said that a player makes a mistake in one frame and subsequently loses the frame - he then spends the next 5 frames pondering over the mistake that he made initially - and so subsequently loses the next 5 frames also. As Terry put it, the player becomes halted in the moment of the initial mistake, but meanwhile time moves on around him.

   It just struck me that the psychopath would be much less likely to fall prey to such mental collapses whereby they might, as a result, lose the match. They would move on much quicker. Psychopathy confers some kind of an evolutionary benefit after all - albeit, when looking at the long game, lesser of an advantage than that of rational empathy and compassion.

I had a girlfriend back in the day who I believe now was a sociopath. It was a nightmare.

     I remember reading somewhere that Ian Brady had said that Myra Hindley had had a sex drive "almost like a mans" - and I must say, the woman I had the misfortune of knowing could be described likewise - not that I'd put the woman in the same category as Hindley, but it has made me think over the years about the relationship between sexuality/sexual deviancy (hormones ?) and (female) sociopathy.

  And no, to answer the OP, I don't believe that  I'm either a sociopath or a psychopath. These are terms we only use for the dysfunctional working class - and not the ambitious performance driven upper middle class (like wot I am guv  )  

High-functioning sociopaths are interesting; they're not necessarily violent people, they acknowledge what they are and cope as anyone else might.  Psychopaths OTOH are nucking futs and I wouldn't want to cross one in a dark alley.

I guess when you are mentally unstable people should expect your actions to be represented and magnified by your disability.  Kind of a no brainier no pun intended.

Well I stand corrected.  Seems they bask in the glory of being demonized, go figure.

look up reddit amas about sociopaths.. there are people who are diagnosed with it.. they just accept it. not all of them are like that, sure, but i'd guess that there are a decent number of them who know.

They're different.
They look for the "symptoms" and discover it.

( I guess? )

what makes you think people know they're sociopaths?

They would probably just gloat and take pride in themselves if they were exposed as a sociopath. They would do whatever they could to appear as if they're still on top or in control.

the serial murderers have a sense of pride about what they do.. it actually turns them on.

Actually they don't and for the most part come to terms with what they are.

Check out this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Rader

He told the courts in very cool terms what he had done and what he would do should he not be locked up.

My $.02.

Call it a hunch but something tells me a sociopath would have a problem with being labled a sociopath lol.

Based on my experience in dealing with a few of them, they know.

My $.02.

Would a sociopath consider themselves a sociopath?   

LOL!

GOOD ONE!

My $.02.

hitting a kid like that.. you must be a sociopath!

i remember a kid who was in my same boy scout troop.. who microwaved his cat. that's fucked up.

Once when I was a kid I went over to a freind's house.

He was shooting baby kittens with a bow and arrow.

I took the bow away from him, hit him with it and left.

I never went back there and would not speak to him at school.

My $.02.

do you have a sociopath ex gf that ricked you into the anal probing, and you accidentally started liking it?

psychos have so many advantages in the modern world. Sometimes I really wanted to be one.

Most sociopaths are really manipulating and convincing that when, and if, their acts are revelled people just refuse to believe the truth. And most serial killers receive love letters while in jail.

Well we can all be a bit sociopath inside the psycho path is the Tsundere Based option 

I think most people probably have at least some sociopathic tendencies.


Sociopaths are usually great at hiding their true feelings and can come across as really nice people, but that's how they rope their victims in. They soon change when they've got their claws into people though.

Carrots!



Which colors are those??

RED

Purple
Blue
Green

It's just a mind game. That "test" can't be even called test. lol


He was providing you information ( in this case, orange letters ). You already had the answer before he even asked, you just didn't know

wtf? the youtube commentors didn't even question the methodology of the test.. they just talked about what they actually chose.

Well, I took the online test but if I told you the results, I'd have to kill you.

LOL!

Just kidding!

My $.02.



P.S.

Can you think of anything that would go well with fava beans and a nice Chianti?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWAgjHoBUXM

there were a few interesting reddit AMAs from sociopaths.. apparently they like to manipulate people and feel no remorse.. some even get off on making others react negatively.

has anyone had a gf who threatened to harm herself if you didn't do something for her? that's a tell-tale sign of it.

I've only known one person in my life who I would consider a sociopath and they were a terrible person. These kinds of individuals are nothing but a mask. Imagine that your every interaction with another person was completely false because you simply didn't care about them. You would have to fake everything from scratch. Things like gratitude, humility, respect, empathy, friendship, guilt, and regret - pretty much everything social animals do without thinking - a sociopath has to manufacture. In this way, the social effects of sociopathy are remarkably similar to that of aspergers syndrome or schizoid personality disorder, and I would argue - equally as debilitating.

It has been said that sociopaths are the next step in human evolution from an alleged "rational" perspective, but I would argue the disorder is nothing more than a crippling social debility. I say this because it is very, very hard, for these individuals to appear completely normal, all of the time (which is a requirement for healthy interpersonal relationships.) We as healthy individuals don't have to worry about our masks slipping, revealing the inner monster. But a sociopath must always maintain their facade, every day, for the rest of their life... and it must be exhausting. And in that time they only have to slip once to destroy the relationships they spent years leveraging. That is the risk a sociopath faces every day when their entire existence is based on lies.

No, I'm not a sociopath (and I wouldn't want to be.)

Thanks for taking care of your country.

Still 2 sociopaths.

no. you're a terrorist. NSA has been contacted, though i probably didn't even need to do that.

2 sociopaths so far. Let's see more

I choose D. None of the above. 

I didn't see any suitable reason for one of those to be a label best suited for me.

no. but an interesting thing is that most sociopaths don't go around broadcasting it, so i suspect that there were more than we are aware of.

Just answer the question above.

I heard that one in 25 persons is a sociopath. I'm trying to figure out some stuff.


Thanks for your time!


PS: Self moderated topic, just to avoid useless troll comments.