How to recognize and recover from everyday sociopaths - narcissists

You are here: Home / Explaining the sociopath / A spath behind every bush

//  by //  340 Comments

Tweet
Share
Pin
Share
0 Shares

I wrote an article not long ago about settling on a name for the personality disorder that we spend our time here talking about. I suggested using “sociopath” as a general term for exploitative people. Many of us have taken to shortening this term to “spath.”

Well, a Lovefraud reader “Justdreamin” informs us that “spath” is taken. She saw it on a flower pot, and sent us the photos.

It turns out that “spath” is a shortened version of “spathiphyllum,” which is the botanical name for the peace lilly, a common houseplant.

We might have to come up with a new name. If I were a beautiful peace lily, I wouldn’t want to share a name with the nasty predators.

Reader Interactions

Comments

  6. silvermoon

    “I would like to see every woman know how to handle [firearms] as naturally as they know how to handle babies.”

    Annie Oakley

    FWB…… Yeah Right………

  7. KatyDid

    Moon report has 1001 comments and the last ones printed tickle me lunar pink. these are a few…
    There’s……….. A Bad Moon……… On The Rise!
    Scientists reporting that if you use TIDE to wash your clothes during this event, your washer may overflow.
    How about some Moon Shine?
    I wonder if Ozzy will be barking at it.
    Pink Floyd will be jamming on the Dark Side of that Supermoon…..
    The 2012 crowd will spend the night throwing rocks at it.
    I haven’t shaved for a week… I want to see if I can scare the hell out of the neighbors
    I will be wearing my tin foil hat then, with my anti-werewolf spray in the right-hand, :-).

    teeheeheehee

  9. aussiegirl

    Mandorla –

    “has anyone heard of Dr. Hew Len. He is a healer in hawaii that supposedly” using a healing technique called Ho’oponopono” cured a whole ward of mentally ill patients (including many S’s/P’s)”

    The book is called ZERO LIMITS by JOE VITALE..

    Just wondering if anybody had heard about it..?? and their thoughts”?”

    I have not heard of either the man or the book but I will say this:
    Don’t you think that if what this man allegedly did with these people REALLY worked, that the whole world would have heard about it now? Even skeptical people will try ANYTHING when they are desperate – if a dear friend or family member of YOURS was mentally ill and institutionalised or hospitalised because of it, and somebody could “cure” them, wouldn’t you be banging on his door for help?

    So why isn’t this man travelling the world and curing ALL of the mentally ill? Why isn’t EVERYBODY getting better?

    I don’t ever buy anything like that – if a person truly has stumbled upon the cure for all cancer, why are people still dying from it? If someone has discovered the cure for hair loss then why are so many people still walking around bald?

    It just doesn’t add up. IMO.

Leave a Reply