Lovefraud invites you to complete a survey about your experience with a sociopath/psychopath/narcissist in order to help professionals diagnose this disorder properly.
Two days ago, the American Psychiatric Association released a draft of the fifth edition its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM 5). This book is the standard classification of mental disorders used by mental health and other professionals. The revision has been underway for a decade.
A work group of 11 doctors and psychologists focused on the section about personality and personality disorders. They have recommended significant changes to the description of antisocial personality disorder, which is also referred to as sociopathy and psychopathy. In fact, one of the suggestions is to change the name of the personality disorder to “antisocial/psychopathic type.”
The new description of the disorder is much closer to what most of us at Lovefraud have experienced. You can read the description here:
Antisocial/Psychopathic Type
The American Psychiatric Association has invited public comment on the draft of DSM 5, and Lovefraud is taking the doctors up on their invitation. We thought the best way to do it would be to survey our readers, asking you how well the proposed description of antisocial/psychopathic type matches your experience with one (or more) of these individuals.
Please take the survey. This is serious, so be thoughtful and accurate in your responses. It will probably take you about 15 minutes, so please start it when you are sure you have time to complete it.
The survey will be open until March 3, 2010. After that, we will tabulate and analyze the data. We will prepare a report of the findings for the American Psychiatric Association. The results will also be published on Lovefraud.
Go to the survey:
conomo
I really am sorry for discombobulating iit all!!!!!!!!!!!
conomo
thaaat said…I have aa beautiful cat n dog. Jupiter and Magda
witsend
ptsd,
On another thread where you asked initially asked about intuition, you had a few responses to that.
I am not sure if you went back and looked, it is under the thread “I fell for it a million times.” (something like that)
Usually someone is on here at Lf but it is kind of where people come and read and post and then check back again later. So people coming and going all day long….
Sometimes in the wee hours, late at night or early morning you can get into an ongoing back and forth “chat” with someone, and that also happens during the day as well.
But generally speaking posters are coming and reading then maybe posting and then checking back later.
Don’t want you to think that you are being ignored or interrupting 🙂
conomo
dont knowbout you but it is time we get it !!
conomo
Witsend? thank you…I really am f*cked over this(my) situation….I really can’t get it together….I am really a pretty responsible person…don’t feel like it these days… thanks…
conomo
oh man / woman did anyone get that viibe?
conomo
what i would have said : don’t mess with me…….ever had a gun pointed at you? Probably I’m not the only one here….
learnthelesson
PTSD – your pets names are so cute – bet they are great to have around.. I havent been able to follow your posts, but I just wanted to say hello and let you know alot of us couldnt get it together initially, but with time and talking and reading and sharing and listening to other survivors it does get better. Hang in there. What kind of dog do you have?
conomo
ltl:
M’s a min Schnauzer. Jupe’s a black cat with 7 toes! Here is the connection to the XS’s ex gf. Jupe came to me as a stray when I was signing the lease to a house in the hamlet where she still lives. That was 2001.
We met then and would chat on the road at times. I had no idea she was involved with XS at the time. Jupe was pregnant at about 8 months old. Her babes had the same toes. I wanted to be sure they went to good homes and ex gf was working with a local vet to find homes for litters. One kitten went to a dear friend and the other 3 were adopted in homes several hours away via ex gf and vet connection.
Once the XS and I got together 5 years after the kittens, I learned that he was in her life back then. NO idea before that.
Who knew the ex gf and I would connect again years later for the purpose of exposing this guy!
I am just very thankful that she also had the strength of purpose to come in to see me.
Yeah….my dates may be a tad off due to CRS too….lol
conomo
witsend:
Hi and thank you too. I’ve got a lot of reading to do. I want to be able to strengthen and encourage too. Not just need.