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For me if the thing I am doing is not potentially life threatening, or could leave me seriously injured, I don't really get anything out of it. I will consistently cheat death with some of my actions, an easy example being my motorcycle riding habits, flying down busy roads at top speed weaving through traffic and in between cars, eluding police at times. I just consider myself an adrenaline junkie though.

Reply long overdue. Apologies for the wait.

You cant put a price on life & It never hurts to build a new bridge along the way. Who has the upper hand? Him for getting beaten up or me for saving him?

If it weren't for schizophrenia being unable to be comorbid, this would worry me a little.

Tryptamine stated: source post

"There is this commonly held notion that sociopaths don't experience fear."

Yeah, because people don't do any research.

about 50% of men with antisocial personality disorder (APD) present a comorbid anxiety disorder

Early descriptions of psychopathy emphasise fearlessness and a lack of nervousness or anxiety as key characteristics of the disorder. However, conflicting evidence suggests that anxiety may be positively correlated with some aspects of the psychopathy construct. This position may seem somewhat paradoxical when considered alongside impaired processing of fear related stimuli in psychopathic personality. The aim of the current paper was to examine the distinct relations of callous, egocentric, and antisocial psychopathic traits with measures of anxiety and social anxiety in samples of non-offenders (Study 1) and violent offenders (Study 2).

Social anxiety disorder (SAD) and antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) are not often thought of as being comorbid. However, recent research suggests the existence of a SAD subtype with characteristics atypical of SAD but common to ASPD. Thus, we explored two competing hypotheses: (1) SAD and ASPD represent opposite ends of a single dimension, or (2) SAD and ASPD exist on two separate dimensions that may be positively correlated.

This study investigated anxiety and depressive symptoms as potential moderators using a sample of 162 male offenders in the New Jersey correctional system. Results supported a significant positive correlation between secondary psychopathy and suicidal ideation. In addition, depression and physiological anxiety moderated the association between secondary psychopathy and suicidal ideation.

I am too exhausted right now to delve into high-functioning vs low-functioning psychopathy and its relation to fear/anxiety.

Perhaps those with ASPD who experience anxiety are at such a high function they come to a point where they are overanalyzing everything?

my uncle just got out of jail for the kinds of things that people who feel fear don't do. the whole family says he's a sociopath.

i always thought he was just a drunk. he's drunk every time i see him

I am intrigued to what motivated you to step in... did you see an angle?  Or was it a sudden burst of altruistic support?  And I really don't mean to rub you the wrong way... all apologies.