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Sho nough!! What ya need?
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Many years ago we used to have a really nice psychopath community on here, mostly in chat. Since then, chat shrunk to almost nothing. It used to be vibrant and alive and lot of fun.
Not a psychopath, but I liked their company and their humor, also liked that they were quite allowing, they didn't care if I accidentally stepped on their toes. Narcissists, on the other side, tend to hate me, I wonder why, LOL. __________________ |
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I have ASPD. Psychiatrists do not seem to like to diagnose it for some reason. Maybe because they can't treat it with medication very well. It would be good to talk to other psychopaths/sociopaths.
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Narcissists hate everyone. Were you diagnosed? If not, then how do you know? |
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I was diagnosed, and I wasn't all that surprised when I got the diagnosis. I already had the feeling that I never really quite belonged anywhere. You really do have to wear a mask to seem "normal." I am not capable of empathizing with other people, and I've never felt true remorse for anything wrong I've ever done. It's a selfish disorder honestly. The only thing that keeps me from doing some really bad things is the fact that there are consequences. Sociopaths can still do good things and be good people, but I've rarely experienced any good feelings from it. I feel embarrassed about it, honestly. Anyway, it's not too hard to pick up on the fact that you may be a psychopath or sociopath. The fact that you care if you are or not leads me to believe that you aren't one.
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One interesting way psychiatrists could go about the discovery of psychopathy earlier is by having people play the game The Sims behind closed doors and secretly monitor them. What a person would do in a simulated world with no consequences could be a good indicator as to their real life inclinations. This is just from my experiences though. I've gotten a lot of insight on myself from playing this game as a teenager. It went from highly ambitious and successful to utterly depraved real quick once the doors were closed and no one was around.
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As an aside, did you know you can get mods that will add "assassin" as a career option? It even comes with its own associated skill. When you level up your Sim, they can kill other Sims in unique ways. You can also get a sniper rifle that can kill other Sims at range. I had one of my Sims live across from the park so he could shoot pedestrians from his living room. This is for The Sims 3, by the way. I haven't gotten The Sims 4, and I don't know what mods come with it. |
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Ahh the Sims. So much you could do with mods. I'm not sure why I feel embarrassed about doing good things. I do a lot of good things, and I just get this strange chill up my spine. The strange thing about me is that I don't think about getting rewards for doing good. I just do it so that I look like a good person. And maybe in trying, that does make me a good person. I have no particular desire to be evil, but the compulsions to do twisted things are ridiculously strong, so I tend to isolate myself when I have them. Not because I would feel guilty, but because I know there are consequences. Psychopaths generally tend to be very successful in their careers and personal lives. It's their sense of grandiosity and power that compel them to be successful by any means. They are very ambitious. I think it's just a matter of their opinion on what success is. It could be politics, amassing knowledge, or in some cases, to be as notorious as possible. Not sure how much of this is fact, but it's what I've noticed personally and is my own opinion.
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Reporter: "Sir, why did you risk your life to save this woman from her attacker?" Heroic psychopath: "Because I wanted to fight some-- Err... Because she needed to be rescued." Quote:
I don't feel compelled to do "evil" things, but I tend to disregard any sort of social decorum when I get in one of these moods, only restraining myself enough that I don't get into trouble, and sometimes failing even that. And yeah, I try to isolate myself if I know it's something that'll get me into serious trouble. But I don't want to do that anymore. Do you know how much we could get accomplished if only we could control what triggers these compulsions? |
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LoL, the Sims. Brings out a memory from when the game was quite new and my neighbor hadn't been caught lying to me and backstabbing me, and hadn't "borrowed" all my savings yet...
She was quite easy going and easy to hang out with, she liked when I popped over just to hang out, she would call me and tell me she put the kettle on. When she played the Sims, she tried to find all ways of killing them. She had a main Sim that always survived, but she killed off everyone else in her Sim home eventually. She had a graveyard where she collected her tombstone. And, nope, I didn't react at all to that. Now I know I should have. __________________ |
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What I like the most about the psychopaths I've met is that not only will they tell me whatever they want to say, without sugarcoating it, if they find it unnecessary, they provide a different perspective. A new perspective is often something we need. If everyone else gives the same answers, sometimes we need something fresh. And usually they don't get angry if I disagree with them, it's more like a game than something they take uber seriously. Normals can tense up quite fast. Now of course all psychopaths aren't the same, I understand that. And some are quite negative. But lacking what they lack and having what they have doesn't HAVE to be a bad thing. __________________ |
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The twisted things I have compulsions are very unpleasant. Talking about it usually gets me in trouble. I won't even tell a therapist about it after they went all Tarsoff on my ***. I lost my job because of the Tarasoff rule.
Its true that psychopaths have some advantages. Not feeling guilt is a plus. It would be great to learn how to direct what gives psychopaths compulsions. They could do so much. On the Sims, it was always fun to trap neighbors, ex girlfriends, mothers in law, and even firefighters in a tiny room and watch them go crazy. I did give them a sink because it was amusing to watch them pre themselves lol. Another one of my favorites was building a big pool, inviting people to swim in it, and then building railings all around it so they couldn't get out. I never bothered with gravestones. I had a badass gnome collection. |
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And what the hell are normal people thinking that they can't see something so blatantly obvious? I'll show you yours if you show me mine. Wait, that didn't come out right. Or did it? Quote:
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Serious question: How is it not obvious to people that narcissists are actually weak-willed and easy to manipulate? |
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People are blind I guess. It's way too easy to manipulate a narcissist. All you have to do is play into their heightened ego and you can do whatever you want to them. Hell, I had a narcissist wife. I could plant ideas in her head and get her to believe it was her idea. Another fun thing to do wad to teach her a new word. She would use it over and over til I got tired of it and taught her a new one.
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Normal people will fall for the same **** 29 times and still be surprised the 30th time. I just don't get it. |
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I had a narcissist doctor long time ago. It was like some weird battle between us. Then I realized to get something I wanted, I need to play her. I didn't like it because it would put me in a pretend position where I was sort of way down the ladder. It felt icky. But I needed what I wanted so I decided to really overdo it, I don't remember why I did. But I was so surprised, not that I got my way because I counted on that, sucking up to her and telling her things she wanted to hear, but that she didn't understand how fake I was. Anyone else would have seen how much I overdid it. Yes, so easily fooled.
I have some minor narcissistic tendencies but not at all like that, so I try to be aware of nice people. But it is still sooooo nice to hear nice things about me in the areas I find important! (Yum!) About playing Sims, I would have been the worst psychopath candidate and so obviously not a psychopath, LOL. I only liked to create my character and build my home. I just liked to make it great. I though a lot about how it would be to really live there. Once I had built my house, I got tired of the game. __________________ |
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I am not a diagnosed psychopath. I too am searching for answers. I'm in the same boat you are in. Trying to figure it out. But I feel anxious. Its usually only in a situation that involves me or putting me at risk. Others I dont care for. Or going to a new restaurant and not being able to control the situation. I agree with what others have said about it seeming impossible to not feel anything at all. At least for me, i have a Very small range of emotion.
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