Posted on 10/20/2008 10:59:20 AM PDT by Red Badger
Sociopath diagnostic ping..............
“Sociopath” is so overused but this time it sounds right.
You could take that entire article and replace “Casey” with my brother’s name and it would fit perfectly..................
I was once stalked by a chick like this one.
It's off to the re-education camp for Dr. Mitchell.
...and you’re still alive? Or did you marry her?.............
Add my biological male parental unit to the list, and I have the physical scars to prove it.
i was reading this and thinking - OBAMA!
To a true sociopath, pleasure is all. They are pure “Id”. The direction from which the pleasure comes isn’t important...........
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
and this also describes the liberal mindset...
me me me
“I was once stalked by a chick like this one.”
I was once stalked by a guy like that. Of course it was 30 plus years ago and it wasn’t called stalking. There was nothing my parents and I could do about it. The guy finally lost it and was looking for me with a gun. Luckily I was out of town. His family had to have him committed and he got the help he needed. I never had anymore problems with him but I still worried about him.
I had no idea we were related! :)
My younger sister too. 100%
Technical detail, a “sociopath” is an individual with a learned or conditioned disregard for others. A “psychopath” is an individual who naturally disregards others because their brain is different from most people.
A common type of “sociopath” is a soldier taught to dehumanize his enemy, which fortunately is not as common as it used to be, found in situations of genocide like Rwanda, or ethnic cleansing, like in Bosnia.
Importantly, even “psychopaths”, who are not mentally able to empathize with others, are not *inherently* criminal or violent, because they develop other means by which they act in the correct and/or legal manner, no matter their lack of feeling or caring.
An oddity of psychopaths is that on occasion, they make superb leaders, because they accurately project an objectivism to the situation and their subordinates. That is, their emotions do not interfere with mission accomplishment, and subordinates are treated in accordance with their success and failure, not ulterior reasons.
This being said, if the woman in question is indeed a sociopath, then the question becomes, “Who trained her to be a sociopath?” If she is a psychopath, then it is meaningless to try and shame her, as she can only grasp that what she did was wrong from a technical, not emotional, point of view.
Sociopaths are totally unable to look at any situation from the eyes of another. They are unable to “moccasin walk”. The only pain is their pain, they look at things in the perspective of “see, look at all I have done for you, unable to acknowledge what many have done for the sociopath. They are controlling and selfish.
I know, I was married to one. Casey is one.
I know, I was raised with one. Casey is one.......
Very interesting. It’s mostly what we’ve been saying all along, but it was really interesting to read a doctors take on it.
Reading that I saw a whole lotta Bill Clinton.
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