[Ballistech]

It makes me sad that i know i can help everyone if they took the time to not judge me and talk to me.
Psychopaths aren’t murderers and criminals by their nature, they’re simply people without compunction. Naturally this can make them callous and cold, but it doesn’t automatically make them dangerous. In fact, in cases where it has been demonstrated and proven to psychopaths that they will personally benefit from abiding by rules, then it is possible they can become relatively well assimilated into society.i learned to mimic healthy emotional behavior.
What is the difference between a successful sociopath and a less successful one? Sometimes I wonder if it's a matter of chancing upon a good thing first and sticking with it rather than a bad one -- like we're monkeys in an experiment, and if you press one button you get heroin, if you press another you get food, and if you press another you somehow get sexual pleasure. Once you find a good thing, you'll probably just stick with it, right? I always got good results being legit, ever since I was little, but if I didn't, or if my first good results came from being less legit, I'm sure I would have gone that way.
But if you want to "manage" yourself or someone else, I do think the key is incentives and immediate gratification. The caveats are that the incentive cannot be discretionary (because sociopaths will see it as arbitrary and not actually associate it with their own behavior) and the reward can't seem too good or the task too hard, otherwise he will spend all of his time trying to figure out how to trick you into giving him the reward without actually completing the task.

[elliemay]

psychopath or sociopath? decisions decisions...

[healingme4me]

You've told the people in your life, that you have this diagnosis?

I'm a little confused, was thinking I'd come into a thread, with examples of how they expressed thinking you were fake or insane.

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I'm certainly not qualified to disagree with a psychiatrist if they've given you that diagnosis, but I thought a key characteristic of sociopathy was a lack of empathy? That, combined with their a lack of remorse, is why people are so wary of them. They're people who can do negative actions towards others and not feel bad about having done so.

If you're saddened by being unable to help others, wouldn't that mean you must have empathy towards them to want to help in the first place? Unless helping others would somehow benefit you in some way...

[Ballistech]

Helping others benefits me so I manipulate others not to get all I can and destroying their life,I manipulate them and benefit their life's and I benefit

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[krisakira]

A lot of people without psychopathy or sociopathy help other people because it benefits them too, because it makes them feel better as a person. Perhaps this is what you are doing? Helping someone makes me feel like a good person and helps my self-esteem. So I am benefiting from helping someone else. It makes me feel like I am a better person than the person I am helping. So I do good deeds because it benefits me.

[Ballistech]

Originally Posted by healingme4me

You've told the people in your life, that you have this diagnosis?

I'm a little confused, was thinking I'd come into a thread, with examples of how they expressed thinking you were fake or insane.

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I am insane

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