So you've revealed to me that your an unpredictable person.
Even that has it's applications.
I agree. No I haven't been diagnosed with that and I don't want to. I have another diagnosis and I'm not sure if it fits. It doesn't matter really... But my psychologist sometimes makes me think he suspects something. Mentioned something about my childhood I perhaps shouldn't have. I don't see I psychologist because I wanna be helped or change. Basically I don't think there is anything wrong with me.
by StormI agree. No I haven't been diagnosed with that and I don't want to. I have another diagnosis and I'm not sure if it fits. It doesn't matter really... But my psychologist sometimes makes me think he suspects something. Mentioned something about my childhood I perhaps shouldn't have. I don't see I psychologist because I wanna be helped or change. Basically I don't think there is anything wrong with me.
Then why do you see a psychologist?
In the beginning it was more because I wanted to be helped. I got fired from my first real job, and after that I went to see a psychiatrist. With almost all psychiatrists and psychologists I've had, I've devoloped realtionships that are more like friendships. The first one was an eccentric man who admired me very much. I showed stuff I had written and drawn and he said "You are so gifted". He also had secrets and things he didn't reveal. Found out about some of it later... But he was a great man and someone I liked very much. He once said a slightly cryptic thing... "It is because you are so intelligent you have done so well". But really I hadn't. He couldn't mean my failed studies or all the jobs I quit or got fired from.
Then I had some who were dickheads (ok, only one) and there was I fight of wills but I prevailed. The one I have now is also more like a friend. He sometimes begins the sessions by asking me about things that are in my field of expertise (IT). Also, I now lots about psychology and I have taught him some things he knew nothing about. We talk too little about my life, and even then there are things I don't want to reveal. To be diagnosed as a sociopath would avail me nothing. It only makes psychologists and others become suspicous of me.
Some people I know say that I'm a psychopath. Not to my face but I know they have said it. I think I know the reasons for this. It is in a way because of what I've said but also because of my actions. But I don't want to tell more about this.
I have other reasons too why a see a psychologist but I don't feel like mentioning it know. I'll be gone from the forum for a while now.
The psychologist isn't your friend, lol. He's just saying stuff to make you comfortable so you'll open up more. It's a manipulative technique and a very affective one that works on the majority of people because it makes them feel like there is some type of bonding happening when there really isn't.
Do you think the psychologist will call you and hang out with you like a friend when you're sessions are over? lol. Of course not, because he's not your friend.
Clearly you're not a psychopath or you would have been aware of that.
A psychologist does not manipulate at all. This is what manipulative idiots that say "daaw I wud b a gud sikologist!" fail to understand. All a psychologist does is provide an environment that allows a willing patient to reach their own conculsions. When a conclusion is reached, the psychologist provides the willing patient with options for further treatment. These options are based on evidence-based practice and common sense.
A psychologist is required to discourage the bonding effect.