Are you a psychopath?

[acheron]

The part that leads to the "personality disorder" is a) most/all of the symptoms, not just a few; and b) having them to the extent that it negatively affects your life to the point where you have trouble functioning in society (as SirStev0 said).

I don't fit into any of the pyschopath symptoms especially, but the list of symptoms of one of the other personality disorders is disturbingly accurate. But I don't have trouble functioning normally, so while maybe I have that type of "personality" a bit, it's not to the extent of it being the "personality disorder".

N.B. I took one psychology class in college, and didn't really pay attention, so most of my "knowledge" on this point comes from Wikipedia and other sites.

 

[BoberFett]

I match quite a few from both categories.

Fucking sweet.

 

[hanoverphist]

ive been accused of being most of those up there at many points in my life. i didnt have a conscience until i had kids as well. they are the only reason i recognize remorse even exists. i could probably be an axe murderer if it werent for them.

 

[BoomerD]

Most definitely...and proud of it.

 

[lsv]

Psychopath is just what the losers call the winners.

Best.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

I think that list typifies the majority of ATOT. All except for the "Promiscuous sexual behavior" and, they would if they could.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

our society pretty much teaches, condones/endorses all of that.

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

<-- proud psychopath here

There is nothing wrong with being a psychopath in and of itself. The issue is when you use that to "wrong others." The traits that tend to indicate psychopathic nature, are also traits that tend to help one further themselves and become successful in modern society. Using people is wrong, however that is how our society is setup. Look at a lot of "successful" people. A lot of them have a fair amount of the psychopath traits.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

I'm pretty at odds with that wiki article and all related. The correct term is sociopath.

What I find funny is, this list basically describes everything we attribute to someone incapable of living peacefully in society, and every single corporation in existence. So why do we model our businesses after Ed Gein?

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

I'm pretty at odds with that wiki article and all related. The correct term is sociopath.

What I find funny is, this list basically describes everything we attribute to someone incapable of living peacefully in society, and every single corporation in existence. So why do we model our businesses after Ed Gein?

Why indeed.

 

[zinfamous]

Taken from the wiki page:



I didn't realize it was so easy to classify a broad illness such as psychopathy... I myself meet six of the criteria from Factor 1, or so I think anyway :awe:, and only one from Factor 2. Anyone here meet all of the criteria from either?

Yep. were you to diagnose individuals explicitly based on criteria in the DSM, you could safely label perhaps some 60% of this country's population as psycopaths. Read some article about it last year.

 

[Squisher]

A little librium and thorazine and see I'm not so bad.

 

[tcsenter]

Features are not the same as symptoms. These are features of each psychopathy type/sub-type, not "symptoms".