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:
hens
Hi Bird – this is henry long time no see. Yes i used to have a pattern of picking losers or they picked me. i met some good one’s but i wasnt interested, go figure – i met a nice lady a few months ago – (no just friendship) but she is so grounded and well adjusted and seems to be a super nice person – this is going to be interesting for me, she doesnt need rescued or fixed, so what do I do? i feel like I am lower class because I have all this baggage and history… I dont want to discuss my past with her..but she was talking about a neighbor of hers that really upset her, she started saying things like ‘i should of listened to my gut and i should of paid attention to the red flags’ and i am like ‘ok we speak the same language – so maybe i can develop a good casual friendship with her after all…but about men? ya’ll can have em I am done…with em. period – zilch nada no more pain…
Ox Drover
Dear Henry,
When is our wedding? You promised me that if you gave up men and went straight we would get married, and I am breathlessly waiting!
Who is this woman that is trying to beat my time? Let me know and I will come at her with skillets flying! I can’t have someone trying to beat my time with my BEST GUY!!!! LOL
Weather is wonderful here today! Hope it was good where you are! Gosh it is nice not have it gloomy any more! I’m enjoying this spring like weather. Had a new calf yesterday and one more any hour now, but not by late this afternoon. Cow looks like he has an elephant to give birth to! She either has to have it or explode! LOL
Henry, ifr you say anything about you being “lower class’ cause you got all this baggage and stuff and history, I WILL boink you! CLASS is not about money, education or anything else of that nature, CLASS is about HEART! One of the CLASSIEST GUYS I know is illiterate and can’t even write his name, but he has good kids, he worked hard all his life, paid his bills and was a good neighbor. His FAMILY however, for the most part are WHITE TRASH to the ultimate! So sweetie, classy is how you think, how you ACT and you is a CLASSY MAN!!!! and you know I loves ya, even if I am responsible for your flat head! (wear a baseball cap, it will make it look round!) ((((Hugs))))
hens
Ox darlin I said i was giving up men but i couldnt go straight if i wanted too..remember what i told ya? yeah you know..anyhow why ruin a good friendship like ours by gettin married? we have the same weather here have been diggin in the dirt and makin some money, there is nuthin cuter than a baby calf – too bad they grow up and become rib eyes…well i am a classy dood – it takes class to survive what we did, classy doodette~!
one/joy_step_at_a_time
hens – over the last few months, I am stripped of more and more of resources – money, health, housing, sanity, work.
and strangely enough, I am feeling like the good of this is that my sense of self cannot lay in those things – that i am distilled more and more, that i cannot accept the mantle of shame that circumstances and spaths have hung about my shoulders.
we are more. MORE than this – this is not even about us. yes, we do have to come to understand ourselves, and change what we can and need to. But fundamentally, our worth never wavers. I mean this.
I sat across the table yesterday morning, from a man who is doing some very real world things to help me with my employment situation. He is well off, a very active Rotarian (they are head hunting me 😉 a world traveler, a man deeply committed to community and good. He knows my situation. And his very appropo response is to bring his resources to bare to help me pull myself up in life. there is no judgement. only care. those are the good ones.
may you be blessed. blessed sweet henry.
hens
Dear Oxy and Onestep – you are my angel’s and Onestep it sounds like you have met one also. there are good people out there willing to help those who will help themselves – i wish you the best onestep..
one/joy_step_at_a_time
thank you hens. i am trying mightily.
do yo have a new calf? i grew up on a dairy farm. i miss them. as a kid i walked around with my cuffs soaking wet and stiffened by milk replacer, from the calves sucking on them. and somehow this is a fond memory…..
i also said the word ‘sociopath’ to two people this week. no, actually three. i tired slipping it into a social conversation last week – that didn’t work so well 😉
I am coming out of the big ‘stun’ phase. I see how disabled i am by ptsd, but I feel a lot of hope rising.
to bed. x
witsend
One Step,
Gentle and kind people. Sometimes they appear in our lives when we least expect them to or when we need them the most.
I am so happy for you that this “goodness” has come into your life.
witsend
hens,
You know hens, all the ladies on lf would be fighting over you.
hens
AWH shucks witty – that was sweet…
geminigirl
Tell you what, hens, we can have an all girls harem, with some gay men,-the men can do all the cooking, feed us grapes all day long, paint our nails, feed the animals,have witty conversation with us, read knowledge able books to us,, theyd be too tired to even think about sex!!
And we can all sleep together and cuddle each other,and play soft gentle music to each other, give each other bubble baths.
I think as Harems go, it would be a great one!
Well have huge circular communal beds, and all the animals,{the ones that get on with each other that is,} can all curl up and sleep on our feet. What do you think, hens?
Im starting to think that sex is overrated anyway, cuddles may be OK!! This is only a blue print idea! Love and a group Hug!! Mama Gem!!!.XXXXX