I'm going to try something here as I'm wading out into the waters of personality disorder advocacy elsewhere.

My ex husband has sociopathic traits. That is not my opinion but a therapist's opinion. We have a teenage daughter so I have to interact with him.

There is a point to this story so please bear with me.

My father has narcissistic traits, again not my opinion, a therapist's opinion.

I had a PD NOS for which I was successfully treated.

Today when people don't like how I present they like to label me as a narcissist, which I am not, and never have been.

I actually like my dad and have compassion for him.

So that brings us to the title, compassion for a sociopath.

I notice that Doc John has created this as a safe place to talk about ASPD.

I know there is a book called Loving the self absorbed, it is the only book of its type, and its about how to have a successful relationship with a person with NPD.

Now I'm happily divorced, I have no interested in getting back together with my ex, that is not what this is about, but, since he's my child's father, and he has sociopathic traits, I'm trying to see if I can have some more compassion for him.

Does this make sense?

It is not my intention to offend anyone as I am a guest in this forum so I apologize ahead of time if I do.