Sociopath Community

Oh yea talk dirty to me bitch.

Oh, now I get it! You're conflating sociopathy with emotional deadening, and further hypothesizing that this numbness arises out of a consumer culture, feeling a lack of purpose and control, fewer interpersonal interactions, etc. If you completely redefine the term, then yes, almost everyone is a sociopath. Absence of normal emotion is not the only defining trait of a sociopath.

Also, your premise that "everyone is a sociopath" is more fundamentally flawed. If this were true, sociopathy would be considered normal, and those who don't fit the bill would be the ones with the supposed disorder. Think of how normal is defined relative to abnormal. Those people that fall within one or two standard deviations of the mean for most of their traits and behaviors would be considered to have normal psychology, and outside of that would likely be abnormal. (Don't assume I'm attaching the usual value judgments to the terms normal and abnormal).

That's right... while all the working class moves through the institutions, deadening themselves in persuit of the dream that is fed to them over commerical television, the upper elite make compelling movies that shock and speak more truth than we will ever truly understand. American Psycho is the defacto psychopathic standard.

The criminal justice system and the law are what the average citizen deem to be psychopathic, when you remove law from the equation the entire general population at large is in a deep psychopathic coma.

This is nothing new... people have been saying it for ages now...

Psychopaths...

Just...no. I can accept sociopath as the term for high-functioning, well-integrated psychopath, and psychopath for the more criminal element that seems to get more media attention. But sorry, the masses are fascinated because, most of the time, it's at odds with their ingrained patterns of thinking and behavior. The vast majority are ruled by their emotions, even superseding rationality and to the detriment of their well-being. Hence, the fascination with the seemingly cold, rational sociopath.

You're playing the semantic game to try and justify a worldview that is plainly wrong.

I agree with you.  The soul trait for a psychopath is a lack of empathy and it is not the same as no emotion. I have a lot of emotions about things i just cannot feel emotions or the pain of other people or animals in other words no empathy

I liked you as soon as you stopped lol'ing. ;)

Indeed, it's not the same as emotionless. So do you embrace your sociopathy or try to integrate normally? (Or both, because that is an interesting combination).

I do both.  It gets complicated but I make it work.

by Darklawliet

 scares me to think I may be a sociopath and the last thing I would want to do is use and hurt the people I tell myself that, I care about. Then there are just times where I find myself doing just that whilst my conscious screams the question "WHY! WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS" and my body, my mind can only continue to enjoy seeing torment in the faces of other people. It feels bad to say that seeing someones face go from, the most honestly happy, full of life most cheeful expressions, within seconds shift to fear, pain and agony, disgust and remorse. Like seeing the happiest couple in the world, sure enough good for them, theyre happy together and thats great.. But how great would it be if one of them just died, for no reason right there, blatently and obviously. How beautiful would it be to see the spouses face change and mold to the flow of there mind as it is processes the reality of the situation. One second they were with the love of there life, the next second that same love is now lying on the ground 1ft away from you with a shotgun blast now where there face was. 

 

Every sentence in this post indicates that you're not a sociopath:

1. You clearly have a conscience (bolded);
2. You think before you act, while you're acting, and after you've acted (italicized);
3. You could have sadistic tendencies, or your could be hiding behind a shitload of defense mechanisms due to past incidences of abuse (I'm going with the latter based on numbers one and two) (bolded);
4. More defence mechanisms (italicized);
5. You experience trauma-related bitterness (bolded), possibly to do with a breakup you've never managed to get over.

The fact that you posit that you may not be a psychopath indicates that you probably aren't, as psychopaths have no insight into their personality. You do. I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that you've experienced child abuse and have rejected the role of the victim in favour of the role of the villain. TK did exactly the same thing.

It's also pretty normal to be considered arrogant or even narcissistic in this society. Theodore Millon has written a great deal about it. I suggest you check out his book, "Personality Disorders in Modern Life."

He is a sociopath. That is because he said so. Why won't you believe him? It's on the internet, it must be true!