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Old Jan 03, 2016, 07:08 PM
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Grand Magnate
 
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Originally Posted by Atypical_Disaster View Post
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As far as therapy helping me, it depends on what you call help. Like many have said about psychopaths, therapy has taught me how to be even more manipulative and so on. However, I have learned in therapy that it is okay to drop the mask around some, and I've also focused on learning practical things to do that keep my boredom at bay so I don't do anything too reckless. My therapist knows I cannot be altered as I was born this way and thankfully she's smart enough to be able to work with that, and she and I just focus on how to modify behaviors that can cause me to get into trouble in my interpersonal life. I was sick of certain patterns in my interpersonal life, so I've done the work to turn that around for myself.
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Do you think that this is a practical approach for most psychopaths? And that if they can learn how to get what they want in socially acceptable ways then most/some can be OK with that? Like I said, win-win -- the altruists would like it.
Thanks for this!
Atypical_Disaster