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
Gem your harem idea sounds like bliss, but one problem, you said with some gay men. and I know how gay men are in bubble baths and circular beds, so more than likely the ladies would be left alone feeding the animals grapes…your idea needs work Gem~!
Ox Drover
Dear Gem, I like your idea, but I think Henry is right! It wouldn’t work with more than one gay guy, and he’d be hard pressed to do all of the work and cooking and animal care and then feed us grapes on top of that! I thinkk they used to call that “slavery” and it’s not PC any more. Oh, well, back to the drawing board!
No, One-step, I’m the one with the new calf, and probably another one today. Pimped my cows out to the neighbor’s bull, and counted off the days of gestation and the “last possible” day of gestation was 2 weeks ago, and bingo! But cattle can actually have some “control” over when they calve depending on weather, length of day vs night, etc. so I got a nice surprise Yea, I love little calves too, and watching them nurse, or throw their tails up and gallop around. Gives me a nice feeling of peace and love.
Saw a big flock of ducks on the pond yesterday too, going North, and as I drove up I scared them and they took off to the next rest stop. Lots of signs of spring and I am SOOOOO GLAD!!!!
bird
This year is going fast and spring is near! And the birdie is getting big and talking if you can believe it! Thanks everyone for your comments and help. I am so unsure of my picking ability-because obviously my picker is broke!!lol I really can’t tell if this new boyfriend is good, even though he is not a sociopath which at least is a step in the right direction. But baby birdie loves him and it’s mutual and I listen to that because I know the birdies picker isn’t broken yet:) One of these days I am going to grab his phone and check his texts (like tiger woods!) It’s the only way to find out if he’s lying; after i see the texts, I will know exactly what to do. That is how I started to uncover the sociopaths lies. Something wasn’t adding up big time, so I checked his emails. Before that I trusted people so much, that I would have never invaded their privacy. Long gone are those days…
Thanks everyone…I love this place
Ox Drover
Dear Bird,
Glad things are going well with Birdie, gosh we spend the first couple of years trying to get them to walk and talk, and the next decade or so trying to get them to sit down and shut up! LOL You give that wonderful baby (a big boy now!) a big hug for me. He has an old woman in ARkansas that prays for him daily! (((hugs))))
When someone does something “secretive” I think it behooves us to WATCH OUT, that is a red flag. If it makes us have a twinge of “gut feeling” we need to listen to that!
If he doesn’t trust YOU, (like keeps a secret on his cell phone) then that tells ME he is the one that is NOT trustworthy, because trustworthy people are not “secretive”–they are open.
If this guy is not GIVING to you, then that “ain’t no relationship” in MY estimation, relationships are open, they are mutual and satisfying to BOTH parties. (((hugs))))
geminigirl
Dearest hens,
Oh well, back to the drawing board! You know this is all fun, I mean no disrespect to gays,{you know that!} Anyway, it was a fun idea!
Lotsa love, and Huggles! Maybe the animals would get the severe shits from all the grapes, and then we WOULD be in trouble! Love, Mama Gem.XXX
hens
Gem – You are a hoot~!
Ox Drover
Dear Gem,.. did you know that grapes and raisons etc cause kidney failure in DOGS? I didn’t know that but read a list a while back (can’t remember where! DUH!) of the things that are NOT good for or fatal to animals. Aslo found out that the reason coyotes hang around hay stacks in the winter time is they are eating the cow poo for B-12 which they apparently can’t make themselves. Boy, now THERE is some really IMPORTANT information! LOL (((hugs)))) Us OLDER women are BAAAAAAD! hee hee
hens
guess i can stop buying B 12 at the drug store now~!
one/joy_step_at_a_time
hens – i have an intimate knowledge of cow flops. I can see you breaking off ‘flakes’ of dried flop – very toney of you don’t you know. you’ll be the toast of the field with this chi-chi behavior.
one/joy_step_at_a_time
Oxy, a friend of mine posted some newborn calf pics on her fb page – no idea where the city girl got them or what her inclination was…
but i smiled. i love the look of them! i gotta get me some farm time! I don’t have a vehicle now, and it really messes up my out of city wanderings, but i have met a women through my last job, who has a farm, within the city limits (!), so I am going to follow up on that. She has a lot of sheep (not a type of livestock i am familiar with) but she also has some dairy cattle.
I also went to the city greenhouse last weekend – openhouse. i was worried – i can’t go anywhere where there is mold anymore – but it was great and SO WONDERFUL to smell the spring flowers – the hyacinths were so fragrant – didn’t realize the scent of the pink flower is so much stronger than the white or blue.
happy -we gonna get whacked by one more storm at least – spring!
best,
one step