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:
ErinBrock
I bet we could raise the funds to purchase secluded/remote/desolate property to set them free on…..
FUCKERS!
Sarah999
Dear OxDrover,
I had the exact same thought many times. That we should put all N/S/P/As together, in an area that is far away from all of us.
JaneSmith
Kathleen,
That’s what’s so great about these websites that out dysfunctional, toxic psychopathic predators.
Yes, there are psychopaths who vehemently claim to be the poor, little victim and not the real predator that they are. But when you begin to read the pissed off comments from true victims, a plethora of them cascading underneath the first post, the truth is revealed for all to see.
The stories are eerily similar in almost all details (as we see on LF all the time), same characteristics, same MO, same sick, demented, perverted loser doing the same chit to everyone.
It’s good that more and more people are outing the evil humanoids who hurt them in so many ways, whether parents, siblings, ex lovers, colleagues, and bosses.
The more we know the more we can help ourselves and others.
JaneSmith
Ooh, you lovely LF members…
I like my science fiction fantasy of sending all the useless blackhearts who roam across our beautiful planet, and the majority of those in penal institutions, to the Prison Planet Epsilon 4000-X located in the Dire System.
Just dump them on a barely habitable planet, throw some garden tools and supplies to give them a start so as to show we’re not soulless, heartless b*stards like they are, and skip off into the stratosphere in our fancy, smancy starships.
Hey, it seems rather sensible to me. Out of sight, out of mind.
🙂
ErinBrock
Jane:
If were going to dump em……I’d prefer heartless…..just dump em……
let em find their own way…..
🙂
pollyannanomore
LOL – oh thanks – you have cheered me out of my dark funk today – dumping them all on a distant planet (with or without tools) sounds like a fab idea! I vote for without tools – we don’t want to aggravate their sense of entitlement in any way! Anyhow – they’re so smart and clever I am sure they can figure it out on their own (NOT!!!!)
geminigirl
Kathleen,Rainer Maria Rilke is my favourite poet of all time!
And the phrase “Dark angels’ comes from my favourite, the first of the Duino Elegies, which he wrote to his patroness, Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis Hohenlohe. She gave him the use of Schloss Duino indefinitely, asa quiet safe place to write his poems in.Not a bad exchange Im sure youll agree!
It begins,
“Who if I cried, would hear me among the Angelic orders— wonderful stuff! It must sound even better in German! Love, GemXX
Rosie
Anti-social is a word people use to describe someone who stays home and doesn’t want to party..which is the exact opposite of a sociopath IMO. So why not stick with Sociopath and hope in time the public will get a better grasp on the definition. Of course there are always going to be people who don’t get it. Some people still insist on thinking schizophrenia means ‘split personality’.
As a side note; this is a bit random, but today I was watching the cartoon movie Jungle Book on DVD with my son, and there’s a bit in the movie where the resident SNAKE (a boa-constrictor) is trying to lull Mogli in for the kill. The snake’s little intro included the words “Don’t you trusssst me?” and then followed by hypnotising Mogli with his eyes…all the while gently chanting “trussst me, trussst me”
No prizes for guessing who that reminded me of!! “Just trust me” was his catch-phrase..
I think the makers of Jungle Book were onto something..
one/joy_step_at_a_time
credit bureau for sociopaths: we can build one – every time we tell the truth about them on the net.
if it wasn’t for one of her others dupes writing on the net, and having a couple of articles in the press – I would never have known.
We need to figure how to out them on the net, while preserving our safety. Plant the seeds in our/ their communities.
there are ways to do this – we just need to focus on it t figure it out. Remember Margaret Mead.
It took me 15 years to create a tool box of methods and the internal balance to present parts of myself that are outside the norm in a way that others ‘get it’, and to be imperturbable with those who are without enough of a mind to ‘get it’.
we CAN do this.
one/joy_step_at_a_time
rosie – rudyard kipling was an infamous imperialist. the spathy snake (all seduction and take, no give) was very much about the ’empire’s’ relationship with the colonized.