[JpLIII]

I stumbled on this forum and was curious if any real mental health professional on here has actually sat down and had a talk with a sociopath? I've always wondered why people act strange like something is driving them to be unreasonable or just strange when something bad or adverse happened to them. I always thought everyone just pretended and faked feeling things. I have done some reading and recognized i show every sign of a sociopath (lol).
Now i am married i am fond of my wife and would not let any harm come to her, so im wondering is that normal for a sociopath? I saw that sociopaths dont have emotions but I often feel this anger and rage at people if im forced to be around them for an extended amount of time or if i am in pain and cant keep the facade up. I do like having my wife with me but i came to the realization that i could cheat on her and feel no remorse i dont know if thats normal (not only sociopaths cheat)? Im going to be honest im here wondering what normal emotions are. Perhaps I have mis-self-diagnosed myself.
I cant stay at a job for too long because I run into situations where I if something goes wrong i start tasting blood and feel this uncontrollable rage that if i dont get away from people i will snap and i quit the job because jail is unfavorable, although i do enjoy fighting.
I take pleasure in using people for nothing? Like if i see a "crack" in someones personality or life i immediately figure out a strategy to see how bad of decisions i can get them to make, leaving husbands / wifes, spending money just because. Its a strange game and this is where i wonder if i mis diagonsed myself because i understand they will hurt and i know this will hurt them and they are often friends who dont realize whats going on or what happened after, and i just smile at knowing the control a person can have over someones mind.
All of the articles i have read say there is no cure because a sociopath doesnt want to change, i think i would like to try, i am pretty sure i would enjoy not having to pretend feeling whatever situation im in. Any advice is appreciated.

[here today]

I just stumbled on this message, too. Please repost this to -- I'm guessing Narcissistic Personality Disorder forum would be the best? Sounds like you live a mostly normal life, not "antisocial", though a lot of sociopaths have been criminals and there were some interesting posts recently in the Antisocial Personality Disorder forum about whether people with ASPD can love. You are not the only one wanting to make the best of your situation. The people writing the articles are not usually the people with the issues and you are you. One author you might enjoy is James Fallon, a neuroscientist who discovered that he had the brain scan of a psychopath. I'm not sure about the difference between a sociopath and a psychopath -- guess there's ongoing research about it.

My agenda? I'm not a sociopath but I have had a personality disorder and I think there's a lot of misinformation in the public media about the disorders and not much help -- despite us wanting it.

[TheNextOne]

I'm no expert in this field, but being a personality disorder, sociopathy (usually considered to be Antisocial Personality Disorder) is not usually cured. Additionally, sociopaths are usually happy being the way they are because they usually don't feel empathy for others. I believe they can still feel anger and frustration, because those are about the sociopath themselves. It is instead generally others that they feel no compassion for. As a result, sociopaths usually see people as commodities that can be used and that doesn't tend to bother them. To them it's just the way the world is.

Sociopaths usually only understand hurt "logically", but not emotionally i.e. they don't "feel" others' pain, nor do they feel bad for causing pain. However, they can be aware that they are causing others pain, they simply don't care though. Most of what you describe is characteristic of a "flattened affect", which can in fact be indicative of multiple disorders including Narcissitic Personality Disorder (which is sometimes confused for Antisocial Personality Disorder) and Schizoid Personality Disorder.

[Atypical_Disaster]

Originally Posted by here today

I'm not sure about the difference between a sociopath and a psychopath -- guess there's ongoing research about it.

The general consensus last I checked is that a sociopath is more a product of a bad environment(nurture) while psychopaths seem to be born that way(nature).

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[VoidOfOblivion]

Originally Posted by JpLIII

I stumbled on this forum and was curious if any real mental health professional on here has actually sat down and had a talk with a sociopath? I've always wondered why people act strange like something is driving them to be unreasonable or just strange when something bad or adverse happened to them. I always thought everyone just pretended and faked feeling things. I have done some reading and recognized i show every sign of a sociopath (lol).
Now i am married i am fond of my wife and would not let any harm come to her, so im wondering is that normal for a sociopath? I saw that sociopaths dont have emotions but I often feel this anger and rage at people if im forced to be around them for an extended amount of time or if i am in pain and cant keep the facade up. I do like having my wife with me but i came to the realization that i could cheat on her and feel no remorse i dont know if thats normal (not only sociopaths cheat)? Im going to be honest im here wondering what normal emotions are. Perhaps I have mis-self-diagnosed myself.
I cant stay at a job for too long because I run into situations where I if something goes wrong i start tasting blood and feel this uncontrollable rage that if i dont get away from people i will snap and i quit the job because jail is unfavorable, although i do enjoy fighting.
I take pleasure in using people for nothing? Like if i see a "crack" in someones personality or life i immediately figure out a strategy to see how bad of decisions i can get them to make, leaving husbands / wifes, spending money just because. Its a strange game and this is where i wonder if i mis diagonsed myself because i understand they will hurt and i know this will hurt them and they are often friends who dont realize whats going on or what happened after, and i just smile at knowing the control a person can have over someones mind.
All of the articles i have read say there is no cure because a sociopath doesnt want to change, i think i would like to try, i am pretty sure i would enjoy not having to pretend feeling whatever situation im in. Any advice is appreciated.

Many disorders often have overlapping symptoms, so it's possible you could be wrong. But you wouldn't see a problem in hurting others if you were antisocial, I don't. But the misconception that antisocials don't seek treatment isn't fully accurate. While they don't care about what they do to others, they may seek out treatment if they feel things in their life are affecting them negatively.

I tend to go on the warpath when pushed past my breaking point or faced with too much adversity, as I have very low tolerance and harbor a lot of hatred for all of humanity, and therefore might be inclined to seek treatment in order to not land myself in any sticky situations by going into rages.

But I can't afford that, so I just start fights on the internet. I don't care, I'd rather threaten to kill someone over the internet than actually do it irl.