I am not a professional in any field of physcology, however I have read a fair amount of books, articles and so on about it regarding physcopathy and aspd in particular and more so regarding serial killers and those who are physcopathic or have other disorders as well as being homicidal- idk I'm weird I like criminal physcology. I have read about how therapy can make physcopaths in particular worse. I have recently come into the knowledge that aspd is a separate thing- many physcopaths have aspd but most aspd people aren't physcopaths, according to info I have gathered anyway. I know there is much confusion when most average people talk about it and use all sorts of terms interchangably without researching very deeply into the subject. (I'm not even going to talk about the term sociopath, just no!) I am gathering that both would have similar outcomes with therapy since they have similar characteristsics. However the ever present "you can't cure any physcopath/aspd patient cos they are all manipulative and lie and none seek help" will just never cut it with me. This takes away any individuality from every patient with either label. And as we are all told- no 2 people are ever exactly the same. People seem to forget the rest of the indivdual and the rest of thier personality and say that the whole personality is ONLY aspd or physcopathy if u see what I'm getting at. (I don't look at a doctor and say well he's a doctor everyone of them without fail makes a butt load of money and abuses prescription drugs, no I'd see him as a person with other things about him who happens to also be a doctor.) I suspect myself to have aspd probably, however finding out if I do seems to REQUIRE deception, it seems that society is FORCING me to be deceptive to collect information to find out if I do suffer from this cos if I seriously tell anyone and seriously reveal every detail of why I suspect this then as far as I can tell I'll be labelled as a no hoper, probable killer and thrown in the 'f off basket', (I already kind of have been since they diagnosed cluster b traits, I got some lame line from my mental heath team about them 'not liking to keep people on the books too long' and now I receive no help, no meds nothing. I'm out here, a possible aspd person, definate ptsd sufferer, who has no support structure and is alone, angry, sometimes sucidal and often pissed off at soceity and family/'friends' without anyone doing anything to change me-and I'm the only person who gives a dam about that O_O) and thats just the best case scenario I think taking some of the sterotypes and stigma away regarding this particular thing- "They never want to change, they are all unredeemable" will actually do a lot to help those who may have it and do want to change (cos hey my freakin life isn't working for me at all) be able to come out and seek help and be truthful. Also on the whole truthful thing, this is something I a having trouble with as I personally dislike liars, value honour etc but I find myself trying to really look at myself and see how true to my behaviour it is and it's like trying to look through an open door to a bookshelf that someone is purposefully standing in front of to block my view. Everytime I ask myself well how honest am I? Have I lied to people to get my way? It's like there is a haze over the answer or a distracting shiny thing (some thought) will come along and lead me away from that door. Trying to know ones self in all truth and flaws is a hard thing to do. That was long winded but hey I had a lot to say and ignore any spelling mistake I sure will