- How many of the questions below apply to you?
- Do you think the questions (and answers on the webpage I linked) accurately reflect a sociopath? If no, why not?
http://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/16-questions-that-doctors-use-to-figure-out-if-youre-a-sociopath/ar-AAcLTIv
Sociopaths can be sexy and beguiling; they take risks the rest of us don't and come across as bold and exciting. Socially, they are often leaders, the life and soul of the party.
The downside is that they regard others to be used, don't feel sympathy, empathy or guilt, and are often one step away from becoming what psychologists used to call psychopaths: criminally vindictive types whose only motivation is to take advantage of weaker people.
Psychologists have changed the definition of sociopathy several times over the decades. It used to be called being a "psychopath." Sociopath is the newer term. The first researcher to name the concept of psychopathy was Dr. Hervey Cleckley in 1941. Cleckley noted that psychopathy was difficult to diagnose precisely because it presents itself without the obvious symptoms of mental disorder. Psychopaths and sociopaths are often a bit too rational.
Here are Cleckley's 16 characteristics. Ask yourself if they apply to you.
1. Are you superficially charming and intelligent?
2. Do you have delusions or other signs of irrational thinking?
3. Are you overly nervous, or do you have other neuroses?
4. Are you reliable?
5. Do you tell lies or say insincere things?
6. Do you feel remorse or shame?
7. Is your behavior anti-social for no good reason?
8. Do you have poor judgment, and fail to learn from experience?
9. Are you pathologically egocentric, and incapable of love?
10. Do you generally lack the ability to react emotionally?
11. Do you lack insight?
12. Are you responsive to others socially?
13. Are you a crazy party fiend?
14. Do you make false suicide threats?
15. Is your sex life impersonal, trivial or poorly integrated?
16. Have you failed to follow a life plan?
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1. Are you superficially charming and intelligent?
yes
2. Do you have delusions or other signs of irrational thinking?
no
3. Are you overly nervous, or do you have other neuroses?
yes
4. Are you reliable?
yes
5. Do you tell lies or say insincere things?
yes
6. Do you feel remorse or shame?
no
7. Is your behavior anti-social for no good reason?
yes
8. Do you have poor judgment, and fail to learn from experience?
no
9. Are you pathologically egocentric, and incapable of love?
yes
10. Do you generally lack the ability to react emotionally?
yes
11. Do you lack insight?
no
12. Are you responsive to others socially?
no
13. Are you a crazy party fiend?
no
14. Do you make false suicide threats?
no
15. Is your sex life impersonal, trivial or poorly integrated?
no
16. Have you failed to follow a life plan?no
now you reap
1. Are you superficially charming and intelligent?
Yes. I use charm as a form of manipulation.
2. Do you have delusions or other signs of irrational thinking?
No, I'm very rational and logical.
3. Are you overly nervous, or do you have other neuroses?
No. I rarely experience nervousness.
4. Are you reliable?
No. I have a tendency to break promises, say one thing and do another.
5. Do you tell lies or say insincere things?
Yes, I tend to lie a lot. More so offline than on.
6. Do you feel remorse or shame?
No. I've never experienced either.
7. Is your behavior anti-social for no good reason?
Yes. I argue just to piss people off, hurt them for my own personal pleasure and break rules/laws for the thrill of it etc.
8. Do you have poor judgment, and fail to learn from experience?
Yes. I'm fairly impulsive, don't often plan ahead, and either don't care or don't often think about the consequences until after the fact. Done that multiple times.
9. Are you pathologically egocentric, and incapable of love?
Yes, I'm aware that I'm very self-centered and selfish, and I've never felt love or been in love. Others have told me they love me, but I didn't feel anything in return.
10. Do you generally lack the ability to react emotionally?
Yes. Most of my emotions, aside from anger, are shallow, fleeting and not felt very often. Most of the time I just feel neutral/bored.
11. Do you lack insight?
I don't know. I've been told I do (on myself, that is).
12. Are you responsive to others socially?
Yes, I put on act around others, fake emotions etc when necessary to blend in/manipulate people.
13. Are you a crazy party fiend?
Yes, to some degree. If I had more money and a decent place to have them, I would hold drug and sex parties every weekend or every second weekend.
14. Do you make false suicide threats?
No
15. Is your sex life impersonal, trivial or poorly integrated?
Yes, I've had over 30 sexual partners (multiple times), fuked both single and married people and been in multiple sexual relationships just for the sex.
16. Have you failed to follow a life plan?
Yes. I struggle to focus on anything long-term. I'm very short-term reward driven. I tend to just live each day as it comes.
1. Are you superficially charming and intelligent?
no
2. Do you have delusions or other signs of irrational thinking?
probably
3. Are you overly nervous, or do you have other neuroses?
yes
4. Are you reliable?
kinda
5. Do you tell lies or say insincere things?
not really
6. Do you feel remorse or shame?
rarely
7. Is your behavior anti-social for no good reason?
nope
8. Do you have poor judgment, and fail to learn from experience?
probably not
9. Are you pathologically egocentric, and incapable of love?
nope
10. Do you generally lack the ability to react emotionally?
no
11. Do you lack insight?
nobody would answer no to this
12. Are you responsive to others socially?
yes
13. Are you a crazy party fiend?
im a virgin
14. Do you make false suicide threats?
no
15. Is your sex life impersonal, trivial or poorly integrated?
im a virgin
16. Have you failed to follow a life plan?