A 24-year-old guy described himself in an Internet forum: He doesn’t feel emotion, is an excellent liar, becomes bored quickly, and experiences an adrenalin rush when deceiving or angering someone else. He asks, is he a sociopath?
I’d answer yes. The post is an interesting insight into how a disordered young man perceives himself and others.
Read Self-diagnosing sociopathy on the Dr. Robert forum.
Lizzy: Oh, I see. I’m the inside type of guy. I barely have any interest in outside activities for fun. I go shopping and to the doctors and stuff like that, but unless I have to go outside, I stay inside. I do like the movies, though. Maybe you should check some of those out. ^_^ Although, it takes money. 🙁
It’s good you like to work, though. Better than I am. I always seem lost inside my own thoughts and sometimes things pass me by. I hope you get to go in tommorrow night. Do you like to listen to music while you do other things? I am always listening to something while on here. Maybe that can relax you some until then. ^_^
That sounds like a FANTASTIC idea to do that on Friday. ^_^
Near-I tend to have music playing a lot too. I used to be a music major when I first went to college-SINGING, so I sing a lot. My friend next door likes it when I sing too, it makes her happy. I don’t have to stifle it when she’s around.
I really can’t wait to get around cops again. It feels so natural and where I’m supposed to be in life. There is none of the BS that you get around nurses. That’s why I really pray that I can pass my typing test and get that dispatch job in August. Also, I can’t get to my unemployment money for like 3 weeks. When I can get it, I’m going to pay a little to get a three month gym membership so I can spend a lot of time there when I’m not working. I need to lift weights so bad. I’m also going to apply for school for the fall semester to finish my bachelors degree. I’m either gonna major in psychology or history or both and minor in Spanish-or at least learn how to speak it as well as I can. My girl inspires me to do it. She sounds so sexy when she’s on the phone speaking Spanish to someone. That’s part of her job so she does it a lot.
Lizzy: I usually get annoyed when people sing. 😛 It’s terrible. I have the bleeding of the ears every time they do it. 🙁 It’s cool you’re friend likes it, though. It’s sweet that it makes her happy. Do you sing popular songs or your own or classics?
So cops are better to be around than nurses, huh. I’m the other way around, but I’ve been in the hospital for so long and I’m more natural around nurses and doctors. I would think they both have BS, but I know nurses are more petty. They tend to work against each other isntead of together as a unit.
I hope you have fun at the gym. I can’t do too much there because of my condition. I may break one of my surgeries if I lift too much or bend. 🙁 Are you feeling weak and that’s why you need to lift weights? I can’t lift much at all. 😛
I’m also going to college in the fall, and psychology is my major, even though I suck at it(getting a little better). 😀 I also like philosophy. It’s a VERY good idea to learn to speak spanish in your field of work! Good! Nice move! It’s funny you think it sounds sexy, though. Secret motivation FTW!
History? Yuck! Get it away! I HATE HATE HATE history. 😛
Near-you wouldn’t be annoyed if you heard me sing. You would probably be impressed. I sing opera and other people’s stuff-like Norah Jones, Joss Stone, Aretha Franklin and others. Yes it makes my girl happy when I sing.
Yes-it is better for me to be around cops. Nurses are petty and they do very much work against each other. Cops more work as unit and they have that brotherhood/sisterhood thing going-like firefighters-they have each other’s backs.
I do love history and I know you told Oxy how much you hated it. History is my biggest love-after all if you don’t learn your past, you are condemned to repeat it (not my quote), and psychology and Spanish are both very good for my future career. Yes the girl does sound very sexy speaking it because she is so fluent. Since she doesn’t have dark skin, most people don’t know she’s half Latina. They can speak it around her and not know that she knows EVERYTHING they’re saying. She if so fluent that she can argue with people and everything. It’s funny to hear her raise her voice and not know what she’s saying.
Lizzy: That’s good! It sounds(ha!) like I would be impressed by it. I’m already glad to see taht it’s opera and other stuff. I thought it would be like Britney Spears or something. Oh, my silly stereotyping! 😛
Actually, I hate history so much because it never changes. School killed it ffor me by having us study the same stuff over and over. I think I’d be interested in learning the history of another country. That’d be fun. So maybe I don’t hate history, just United States history! Happy early 4th of July everyone! 😛
You almost wrote a paragraph on her voice alone. Good thing I didn’t ask you about all of her! I’m joking, I think it’s kind of sexy too and I like it when people don’t know that you understand the language they are speaking! That’s always funny.
LL – CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!! YAAAAAAAY!!!!
Near-sometimes I can’t help but write a whole paragraph on that-and other things
I like that: “self diagnosing sociopathy”….
In others or ourselves? Hmmm?
What is the suggestion in that? Perhaps that we are all prone to a certain degree of ‘sociopathy’? I am sure all of us would prefer to think not. I mean, we have our ‘moments’ but I seriously doubt any of us is running around infecting people with AIDS and being a jerk the whole ten yards as well as mind controlling and demonic in the way we treat others.
Degrees? ARE there degrees? Perhaps they are unique unto themselves, each one….interesting concept and point to ponder. Are they ALL the same? Or, are they all different and unique unto their own sociopathy?
When you look at it like that, it kind of gives you a little more DIFFERENT perspective: trying to understand the ‘details’ and the ‘patterns’; the ‘symptoms’.
CAN they ever change? I don’t think so from what I have read and studied so far. They are predisposed to be the way they are for the rest of their lives because change is too difficult to achieve in one’s own biological ‘jacket’. WE know how difficult the change has been for all of us! “IT” just doesn’t even get ‘in touch’ with that part of ‘itself’ the same way we do.
When I go to sleep at night, missing the lie, I tell myself those things – that it’s like sleeping with a rattlesnake. Oh sure, as long as you lay there reallllll quiet, in your sleeping bag, you are pretty safe but don’t you DARE roll over!
I have been coming to terms with not only my fraile medical condition and trying to grab the reality that my life could just suddenly end now at any moment, wanting desperately to just make everything ‘right’ and make that ‘peace’ with my life…
I mistakenly though I could include him in that plan but after all of this time, it isn’t meant to be.
Where is that woman who vowed unconditionally?
She was killed and left for dead. I am trying to raise myself from the dead. It hasn’t been easy in more ways than one. I know how much we loved and how much that love was thrown in the garbage like fodder in our faces.
You just remember that it’s not “US” who are the losers in all of this. Put some perspective spin on it and look at it from an entirely different avenue: “WHOM” is the REAL loser in all of this?
Does anyone have a spath that just hangs on and hangs on and hangs on, year after year after year…them always being the ONE maintaining contact, after you have requested NUMEROUS TIMES that they JUST GO AWAY….
Does anyone else out there have this persistence problem?
If so, I would truly like to know how you stop it from happening. You can get all the restraining orders you want but it isn’t going to stop them. Not really. Not any better than dialing the local police, if necessary. Truly.
I have considered moving away and disappearing.
Has anyone had any of this similar problem? If so, I would truly love a dialogue with you.
You all take care of yourselves and remember that you are cared for and that this isn’t the end but a new beginning and it is whatever we make it and wish it to be.
Peace and love
DUPED
DUPED:
No, mine is the opposite. He dumped me twice and isn’t contacting me at all. I know it’s for the best, but it hurts very badly.
Hi Louise: *HUGS* 🙂
Well, my x has been dumping me, off and on, the past five years. It was never ME until this last time and as he said: “That completely blows me away and I never saw that coming from you.” I bet. Enough is enough disrespect. Period. So, he was going to try swooning me again, not being ‘happy’ where he is, ‘either’, wanting to ruin my life some more…yah, I opened that door, the last time for a good reason: to tell him all those things I have been wanting to say for a long time. He was NOT a happy person when he left here and I could care less anymore.
He tried to kill me and has done nothing but terrorize me since I have known him in one way or another. He was suppose to be my friend but the whole time we were acquaintances, he just used me until there was nothing left, without conscious whatsoever. Instead, he defends himself by saying everything I say is a lie and it truly is not. For five of the 6 years he was MARRIED, without my knowledge, as he lead me on and lead me on…deceiving and lying. THEN turns around and calls ME the liar and deceiver trying to save his own ass.
Nope, I don’t need this madness around me and I am almost out. I have been teaching myself to focus on MYSELF more lately and if that takes my being a bitch, I guess that’s what I am.
I am so sorry Louise, that it hurts so much. I KNOW exactly how that feels. I used to ask the Angel Michael to come and protect me at night, as I slept and to take away the pain in my heart. Ironically, last October,
I had a massive sudden cardiac arrest that almost killed me and x was no where to be found…too busy with one of his ‘herd’. The new victim in his life…he met HER on the internet too. Imagine that.
Time will heal our wounds.
Dumped you twice! What a loser!
You are better than being treated that way, Louise.
I would rather be alone for a good reason than to be with someone for the wrong reasons.
🙂 Like Hens said: “Better to have loved and lost than to have to live with sp forever!”
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