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You are a sociopath who doesn't give a fuck about anything.

No :( I do care about some things.

Are you anxious about your apparent lack of short term (immediate) fear?

Fear is just a state that all people experience in one way, or another.

People think that I'm fearless, but I just don't care in the immediate terms.

Just a careless idiot.

Then I worry about what I have missed and very soon after it dissipates.

Then I have to deal with the consequences, but the underlying causes are irrelevant. 

The moment is ever so fleeting, when most of your focus relies on its perception.

How could you take anything seriously? Basically everything you are told from the moment you are aware as a child till the day you die is a lie.

The only thing people take seriously are threats to their health and welfare.

So consider that someone who has a family they love will take anything that effects the welfare of the family seriously. Taxes, or changes with work, illnesses, and so on...

Someone who gains a significant amount of self-worth through an institution such as school, will consider anything that invalidates what they have learned as a threat to their well being. People are that messed up.

Same goes for religious principles, entire wars are fought under the guise of religious principles.

So OP, you are not a sociopath. You are probably unipolar depressed or something and stagnating. Closer to a psychopath than a sociopath.

I just read your old post saying you were a sociopath. Now you just said you don't take things seriously. 

I was just paraphrasing what you said.

^you know, historically, the psychologists had no differentiation or official definition as to what was a psychopath and what was a sociopath.

Technically they are evolving beliefs, if you ask me.

A sociopath eventually evolved to mean someone who was a psychopath, only active in the world. The psychopaths simply keep to themselves and are dysfunctional in society. More or less.

OP, your amygdala plays a major role in your fear response. So, if you are depressed at all... which is difficult to spot if you are truly clinically depressed, as you simply are not as aware of yourself or your surroundings when clinically depressed, rather than emotionally depressed, if you understand the subtle difference. Anyways... meds will help, but chances are the majority of doctors will give you SSRIs which won't do anything for you...

by Storm

But...it's not that I am fearless, it's more that I don't understand when something is dangerous or risky. I am sometimes completely unaware that it is, until the shit hits the fan or someone points it out to me. This has almost gotten me killed several times.

I can relate to that to some degree. Though, I'm usually aware that the situation is dangerous or risky. I just don't care and that causes me to act a little recklessly. Sometimes I just don't think far enough ahead to really consider the potential consequences.

Other times, my flight response doesn't kick in when it should and I will take on more than I can handle, usually during a confrontation with someone who is bigger and physically stronger than myself.

I can also be seen as "careless"... And it has been said that I lack any sense of responsibility, but that isn't true. And it's not really that I don't care perhaps, more like I'm not even aware of the possible consequences or of the "danger".

Amygdala...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amygdala

3 Neuropsychological correlates of amygdala activity
  3.1 Sexual orientation
  3.2 Social interaction
  3.3 Aggression
3.4 Fear
  3.5 Alcoholism and binge drinking
  3.6 Anxiety
  3.7 Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Fear
There are cases of human patients with focal bilateral amygdala lesions, due to the rare genetic condition Urbach-Wiethe disease.[58][59] Such patients fail to exhibit fear-related behaviors, leading one to be dubbed the "woman with no fear". This finding reinforces the conclusion that the amygdala "plays a pivotal role in triggering a state of fear".[60]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18072812

Tianeptine also has beneficial effects in the amygdala and cortex and can reverse the effects of stress on neuronal and synaptic functioning. The neurobiological properties of tianeptine may provide an explanation not only for its antidepressant activity, but also for its anxiolytic effects in depressed patients and its lack of adverse effects on cognitive function and memory.