One of my exes is/ was a psych ward nurse. I'm sure she used to manipulate me. When I reflect back I can't help but think she really did. Things like emotional manipulation about not buying her gifts on my birthday after I'd just been told my nan was going to die. There were a lot of other things as well. I dodged that bullet.
Wow! Cool! I’ve been very alert of how I don’t feel for others at all, but also fully trust that other people do genuinely feel things. Because I do have feelings, I just don’t have the ones I see happening for other people which… it’s distressing to me that I don’t feel any distress from things that must be distressing for the person it’s happening to. I can feel “sympathy pains” easily when I hear about specific injuries. I feel all sorts of intense… intensity, from songs and stories. But I never feel genuinely sad about someone dying and leaving their family behind… except in one recent instance. But I know what I do when I’m genuinely upset, so I am good at pretending to be upset when the social rule is clearly that something is upsetting
I got my updated diagnosis recently, because I wanted to know how bad my deterioration has gotten, and I did ask that they use the term Sociopath instead of this new ASPD, because it's not fitting enough and I got my first diagnosis back when that was still the term being used. I'm a psychopath with Sociopathic tendencies, and I know I'm fortunate for this, I'm a psychopath that actually has too much empathy. I'm selfishly selfless. If it makes logical sense in my mind, then I'll go out of my way and to my own detriment to help people. I'm trying to get out the mindset that's become so natural for me of "if I keep being nice, then when I have the ammunition of them being an asshole I can use it to my advantage" I'm an anomaly and an enigma to a lot of people, but I do what I can to help the professionals feel comfortable around me, sadly because having a good reputation with them does inevitably help me in the end and I'm more likely to get the referrals and treatment I need. The worst part is that I know I'm like this, I know how bad it actually is, and the only thing I can think of to help people around me not deal with it is to not get too close or personal, I'm even planning on not seeking a romantic partner because I really don't want to put someone through this treatment, even though I desperately crave company.
1. The notion of "antisocial personality", while not being a formal diagnostic term until recently, has been in clinical use since the 70's so unless you're over 60 years old there's nothing new about it. 2. Being nice to people =/= empathy. You just sound like an edgy tryhard who's over-raltionalizing fairly typical behavior for someone who's been traumatized.
Story 4 omfg i think that was me 😅 as far as progress goes today i wake up and remind myself that you all deserve to breathe and are entitled to your own emotions even if though I'd rather not
Story 5: She was likely born that way. It does in fact, just happen. Some people are literally incapable of understanding emotions in the ways that others do because they do not experience them and never have. Our society is not equipped to consider the needs of these people. I am one of these. Not diagnosed but it is difficult to get passed a certain age without fundamentally understanding that the way you experience the world is just not the same as how others do. It's rubbed in our faces by media, fiction, and by 99% of the people we interact with.
Well the AP story just terrifies me.
Don't worry. He's giving motivational speeches now.
The AP story made me go and give my cat so many pets and scritchies and kisses. She got a little spoonful of cream as well. That kid is a _monster._
for story 5 some people r just born without emotion
Story ,#5 she's a true psychopath....no emotions, remorse, guilt.... just a predator, user, manipulator....
Either that or she has a very narcissist personality
One of my exes is/ was a psych ward nurse. I'm sure she used to manipulate me. When I reflect back I can't help but think she really did. Things like emotional manipulation about not buying her gifts on my birthday after I'd just been told my nan was going to die. There were a lot of other things as well. I dodged that bullet.
@mrw1783 - wth! She most certainly was manipulative and from the sounds of it, abusive. Glad you got out of it.
@jengsci8268 Thank you very much. I am definitely happy being single. Some poor sucker married her a few years ago.
14:59 The subtitles say "cell phone alive" there XD
Story 5, just tell her "Why would humanity fake emotions if nobody feels them?" if she's logical that might make her realize she's the odd one
Wow! Cool! I’ve been very alert of how I don’t feel for others at all, but also fully trust that other people do genuinely feel things. Because I do have feelings, I just don’t have the ones I see happening for other people which… it’s distressing to me that I don’t feel any distress from things that must be distressing for the person it’s happening to. I can feel “sympathy pains” easily when I hear about specific injuries. I feel all sorts of intense… intensity, from songs and stories. But I never feel genuinely sad about someone dying and leaving their family behind… except in one recent instance. But I know what I do when I’m genuinely upset, so I am good at pretending to be upset when the social rule is clearly that something is upsetting
Don’t guilt yourself, you’re just a bit numb and desensitized. Seems to be becoming more common in this modernized era
I got my updated diagnosis recently, because I wanted to know how bad my deterioration has gotten, and I did ask that they use the term Sociopath instead of this new ASPD, because it's not fitting enough and I got my first diagnosis back when that was still the term being used. I'm a psychopath with Sociopathic tendencies, and I know I'm fortunate for this, I'm a psychopath that actually has too much empathy. I'm selfishly selfless. If it makes logical sense in my mind, then I'll go out of my way and to my own detriment to help people. I'm trying to get out the mindset that's become so natural for me of "if I keep being nice, then when I have the ammunition of them being an asshole I can use it to my advantage" I'm an anomaly and an enigma to a lot of people, but I do what I can to help the professionals feel comfortable around me, sadly because having a good reputation with them does inevitably help me in the end and I'm more likely to get the referrals and treatment I need. The worst part is that I know I'm like this, I know how bad it actually is, and the only thing I can think of to help people around me not deal with it is to not get too close or personal, I'm even planning on not seeking a romantic partner because I really don't want to put someone through this treatment, even though I desperately crave company.
That doesn't make any sense, but anythings possible ig
1. The notion of "antisocial personality", while not being a formal diagnostic term until recently, has been in clinical use since the 70's so unless you're over 60 years old there's nothing new about it.
2. Being nice to people =/= empathy. You just sound like an edgy tryhard who's over-raltionalizing fairly typical behavior for someone who's been traumatized.
Story 4 omfg i think that was me 😅 as far as progress goes today i wake up and remind myself that you all deserve to breathe and are entitled to your own emotions even if though I'd rather not
NOT THE KITTEN NO NOO NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The inability to feel empathy is psychopathy which means some of those people were psychopaths (I am not qualified but a Google search says this)
Low empathy can be a symptom of many different disorders, and neither sociopathy nor psychopathy are diagnoses in the DSM anymore.
First guy, straight to jail. Do not pass go.
Story #2.... That kid is a true blue psychopath ...he will become a serial killer.... killing that kitten...he should have received 300 lashings!!!!
Great stories....these people are so soulless..... predators...
Do any of these psychopaths/sociopaths meet? Understand each other? Fall in love with each other?
what game is playing in the background? it looks interesting
Story 5: She was likely born that way. It does in fact, just happen. Some people are literally incapable of understanding emotions in the ways that others do because they do not experience them and never have. Our society is not equipped to consider the needs of these people.
I am one of these. Not diagnosed but it is difficult to get passed a certain age without fundamentally understanding that the way you experience the world is just not the same as how others do. It's rubbed in our faces by media, fiction, and by 99% of the people we interact with.
Isn't story 5 just alexithymia mixed with a bit of teenage assholery?
why do i kinda relate to story 5 lol
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