Ever met an actual Psychopath?
How could you tell you were dealing with one?What are some of the characteristics exhibited by a Psychopath which can help identify this type of individual?
Were you feeling fear or apprehension at some level when confronting one?
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Excitement and attraction is what you'd most likely feel around a psychopath.
That's psychopathy. Doubt, fear, pessimism and regret don't get you anywhere and simply do not register for that reason. You wouldn't lose heart by looking at the corpse of that dog you've killed. Thoughts and feelings of empowerment are pretty much all there is because they work - work for you if not necessarily for the rest of life on earth.
But we must not mistake psychopathy for cool and the impersonal masks we wear to survive in mass society. The latter is more akin to the sociopath over the psychopath and it's the mild end of sociopath at that. Keeping doubts to yourself is not psychopathy. And the very individualistic person may go to great lengths to appear normal where the ordinary goes to great lengths to stand out. The sheep in wolves clothing is ordinary, the wolf in sheep's clothing is the real nutcase.
1) Ever met an actual Psychopath?
2) How could you tell you were dealing with one?
What are some of the characteristics exhibited by a Psychopath which can help identify this type of individual?
3) Were you feeling fear or apprehension at some level when confronting one?
1) My sister-in-law.
2) I've had some formal education in psychology.
Y'all can pick up the basics by searching Psychopath Symptoms or Psychopath vs Sociopath. It's not difficult - quite easy, really.
2) Nope. Not a bit. I get along well with her - better'n her blood relatives.
The trick is to recognize 'em for what they Are and take it as a given that they'll behave as psychopaths - so one won't be surprised/disappointed when they behave as what they Are.
Her blood kin find it more difficult to recognize/accept her psychopathy than do I.
Understandable, I suppose. They have closer family ties/feelings for her & are disappointed/hurt when Daughter/Sis behaves as what she IS.
Women, religion and the spirit are something else. You may not have the confidence to do X, Y and Z even if X, Y and Z were legal and the spirit is a spur to X, Y and Z. Where doubt is the default the remedy is a course of esteem-boosting belief. And you better be forgiving or else nobody would dare do anything.
Horrible people, run if you can.
I just hope he eventually got the help he needed