Comments on: The Unburdened Mind

By: Tokano

Tokano — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 21:13:31 +0000

Is it bad that all of the quotes in this article made me laugh?

By: Pseudohero

Pseudohero — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 03:26:08 +0000

[quote]xyntheripper said: “Entirely not surprisingly this test claims I am in fact a psychopath. It said psychopath like halfway through.. I answered “yes” to 15/19 and “some what” to two. The only ones I don’t fit is habitual liar and the “first!” thing. I am glad I am a psychopath. Emotions and remorse are pointless. You are much better off going about life without such things as they are only going to hold you back. I recently had some events occur in my life most would deem quite upsetting. I went to jail for the weekend which really wasn’t so bad I caught up on my reading and watched some of the March Madness tournament and when I got out I found out my girlfriend had been raped. To be perfectly honest I didn’t give a shit. Then she told me about a month before the rape she had cheated on me. To this I felt relieved that she gave me the easy way out since I liked someone better anyway. Fast forward a few weeks my best friend died of an over dose. I guess most people are supposed to go through grief and feel bad right? I just felt happy for him. I mean he got out of this fucked up world and went out the best way possible. Just 19 years old. Lucky him. I got kicked out of his funeral a few days later. I was at a podium infront of 50 people sharing stories about him. I had a few people laughing until one of his best friends came up to me and cut me off and took me to another room. He said I made his mother cry (who abandoned him when he was a little kid) and that those stories I was telling are the reason that made my friend “hate me” and that I had no right to be there and if it wasn’t for me my friend would probably still be alive. I simply turned around and walked out and shrugged it off. The only time I ever really feel emotions is when I do heroin. I’m not sure why. I guess heroin is supposed to numb people emotionally so perhaps it has an opposite effect on psychopaths? Maybe psychopaths should be given a heroin prescription, there’s your cure! I have no desire to harm other people. I mean I really wouldn’t care if I did, but with all the forensics and shit they have now it’s just not worth going to prison for the rest of my life. There is just little to gain out of doing this. You know who is another psychopath? God. Noah’s Ark… Didn’t like the way the world was going so he mass murdered everybody? I doubt he even felt bad about it. And the story of Moses. He kept telling Moses to get out of there while “hardening Pharoh’s heart” making Pharoh unable to release Moses’ people then he murdered all of Pharoh’s army. God is definitely a psychopath.”[/quote]

You are quite interesting and like your attitude.

By: Serendipity

Serendipity — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 17:10:03 +0000

After reading this I felt great concern for the children born to the PEOPLE that are this way. (apples don’t fall far from the tree!) And the future significant others whose lives they will destroy. We need a new type of “self defence” taught to our children, one that prepares them for the prediator stalking the halls of our schools and employment areas of our work forces!

By: xyntheripper

xyntheripper — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 05:05:26 +0000

Entirely not surprisingly this test claims I am in fact a psychopath. It said psychopath like halfway through.. I answered “yes” to 15/19 and “some what” to two. The only ones I don’t fit is habitual liar and the “first!” thing. I am glad I am a psychopath. Emotions and remorse are pointless. You are much better off going about life without such things as they are only going to hold you back. I recently had some events occur in my life most would deem quite upsetting. I went to jail for the weekend which really wasn’t so bad I caught up on my reading and watched some of the March Madness tournament and when I got out I found out my girlfriend had been raped. To be perfectly honest I didn’t give a shit. Then she told me about a month before the rape she had cheated on me. To this I felt relieved that she gave me the easy way out since I liked someone better anyway. Fast forward a few weeks my best friend died of an over dose. I guess most people are supposed to go through grief and feel bad right? I just felt happy for him. I mean he got out of this fucked up world and went out the best way possible. Just 19 years old. Lucky him. I got kicked out of his funeral a few days later. I was at a podium infront of 50 people sharing stories about him. I had a few people laughing until one of his best friends came up to me and cut me off and took me to another room. He said I made his mother cry (who abandoned him when he was a little kid) and that those stories I was telling are the reason that made my friend “hate me” and that I had no right to be there and if it wasn’t for me my friend would probably still be alive. I simply turned around and walked out and shrugged it off. The only time I ever really feel emotions is when I do heroin. I’m not sure why. I guess heroin is supposed to numb people emotionally so perhaps it has an opposite effect on psychopaths? Maybe psychopaths should be given a heroin prescription, there’s your cure! I have no desire to harm other people. I mean I really wouldn’t care if I did, but with all the forensics and shit they have now it’s just not worth going to prison for the rest of my life. There is just little to gain out of doing this. You know who is another psychopath? God. Noah’s Ark… Didn’t like the way the world was going so he mass murdered everybody? I doubt he even felt bad about it. And the story of Moses. He kept telling Moses to get out of there while “hardening Pharoh’s heart” making Pharoh unable to release Moses’ people then he murdered all of Pharoh’s army. God is definitely a psychopath.

By: Aws

Aws — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 23:33:36 +0000

I found the article very enlightening indeed. Since my son was only a mere 2 years old, I knew something was wrong, mothers always do! Life has been extremely difficult with this child and for the past 22 years I have had so many close calls and emotional uphievals with him. Matters have spiralled so out of control that the family unit has been shattered to the extent where I actually fled the family home and when to live at a womens’ shelter because of his behaviour. Thank you for confirming what others could not. My son has the ability to wrap anyone around his little finger and therefore the doctors I took him to for help did not manage to give the correct diagnosis. Regardless of my protests, they would send me home with him telling me that he is just a normal naughty little boy. I have moved almost 17000 miles away and have left him to his own devices because I am unable to cope with it anymore. The emotional abuse and sometimes physical abuse, has been unbearable.
Thank you so much for this article – now I can have peace, knowing I was right all along. I love my beautiful boy, but cannot risk the rest of my family nor my own sanity any longer. He has no remorse and cares only for himself.
I have spent 22 years trying to help him and in the process lost myself, ruined my relationship with my husband and almost lost my other children.

By: TravelBugBrit

TravelBugBrit — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 00:37:39 +0000

I Realize that as i am the last comment to be posted i will obviously be overlooked, however, What an incredible article that was.

“This has caused some researchers to suspect that the condition isn’t a “disorder” at all, but an adaptive trait. In a civilization made up primarily of law-abiding citizenry, the theory goes, an evolutionary niche opens up for a minority who would exploit the trusting masses.”

This part Fascinates me. The concept of the human mind evolving and adapting constantly to Social situations, which in turn turns off “Normal” more suppressive emotions to deal with the in-balance, has my mind racing
Maybe more “Personality Disorders” could be better treated if we looked them all as the minds way of finding advantages in such tedious times.

Sleepy rant finished………….
:)

By: vortex2

vortex2 — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 14:55:15 +0000

I know 2 psycho/socio-paths, although at the time of “friendship” did not classify them as such. However, having come upon the topic and reading up on it, now know more defintively about it, and can now do so. Thank goodness, being the ‘weak willed person’ I certainly am in their eyes, they are out of my life for the most part. The internet knows no bounds though, and I must say the curiosity keeps me coming back for more, but from a safe distance combined with extreme care in what is written (how that can be used in the future) and without hinting to those people that I’m “on to them”, even though I know that could care less if I was…it’s immaterial.
I’ll describe one of them. Met this guy in high school. He was very smart, but did not get good grade due to is apparent lack of focus. He always had bigger eggs to fry. Anyone who got to know him knew he was a little ‘off’, charming and good looking as he might be. He planned a surprise birthday party for me, took me to the arcade to play pin-ball while the surprise party was gathering. A bit later, I discovered the roll of quarters he had with him to use the games was stolen off my bedroom dresser the week before. He was adopted very young and was in trouble for minor things constantly, the biggest of which I later learned was from starting fires. I probably lost a lot of what would other been long-lasting friendships due to being associated with him. We had fun. He was reckless and unabanded. Lots of fun. A total Yin-and -Yang when you got to know him better. He’s been married twice. I went to his mom’s funeral. He feigned sadness and put on quite the show for all the attendees that were completely igonorant. I was tempted to stand up and clap at the end of the eulogy, but I know that would have not been viewed warmly…and I felt bad for his dad anyway…and I bit for myself too…cause she was such a nice, but very weird, person. I’m glad I never got to know her better. She gave me the creeps, but it was nothing I could ever put a finger on. He ruined a part in time of my life emotionally, and that’s the clincher. The things I’ve written are totally minor I know. If only I could paint the overall, broad picture. That would take a book. The turning point came during a Thanksgiving break after high school when I found him ‘in bed’ with his also adopted brother. He wanted sex any way he could get it. Any such person doesn’t ‘make love’…they ‘do sex’. At first appearances, like while at the mall, we could walk the mall on Friday nights and have the girls google over us. He loved the attention, I was indifferent and only did it because what the heck, I was a teen. He’s moved several times and is now far away, but get concerned that when I do hear from him he talks about moving back. He’s probably not the brightest at socializing as others that have the mentality. Having experienced being with both individuals at separate times of my life…they shared many qualities..but were also quite different. From what I’ve experienced, a person can fall within the label regardless of intellect. That has nothing to do with it. And there seems to be levels within the ‘label’ that further delineates from serial killer to just plain pain in the ass. I wonder though, the same as what others have, would any future retalitory measures taken on my part perhaps lead them to taking a measure of revenge – not of physical nature, but of whatever they can scheme up to get a momentary rush. Therefore, even though tempted at times, I do not write them. I unfortunately ‘friended’ them in Facebook. But they are well far away from my location. Distance does make the heart grow fonder. Fonder of the notion that they are no where near me. I feel for the posts from any one who has posted about having a marriage, relationship, sibling, or child that falls within this category. Best thing to do is NOT communicate with them. And for those who have read and posted about “it” and described the uncaringness and other dribble you have…so what. I don’t care and you don’t care (if what you even say is true). If it is true that you are a sociopath, you don’t care what anyone says, so why post in the first place. It’s too bad all this information is available now on the internet. It’s just more fuel to feed the imaginations of those that fit the label….fuel for that, as well as was to hide more effectively what has become known publicly. On the otherhand, one can’t diss anyone for being like this. Everything is relative in the broad scheme of things. It’s not really a disorder, nor a brain dysfunction. It just is. The world in some ways has become a better place with this, and in many ways worse. I really don’t like describing or labelling ‘socio/psycho pathology’…because in doing so give it in and of itself credence. As far as the status quo goes though, and in review of the statistics, I’m sort of inclined to see it as merely a deviance from the morally and socially accepted norm…which in other ways means nothing. I’m “quite a piece of work’ myself of an entirely different nature. Quite aware of it. I’d like to be of psychopathic mind set sometimes…sort of like and overweight person would like to be anorexic. In both cases, the ‘means’ does not become and attractive ‘ ends’.

By: PotentlyAlive

PotentlyAlive — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:38:49 +0000

I wouldn’t say that just because the person has improper writing skills that they are not a sociopath/psychopath. My ex is definately one and his writing skills are terrible, although he thinks differently. My ex is a narcissist, a spoiled rotten brat and has the biggest case of entitlement I’ve ever heard of, so when it came to school he didn’t bother to pay attention in class and was never made to, hence the horrible letter writing which he thinks are legally intimidating to me.

BUT I would love some advice if anyone has any thoughts about what to do when you have an ex who is a sociopath and is being ‘protected’ by the local police department. He gets away with everything from having his ‘friends’ give me parking tickets to having my 16 year old daughter charged with assault after he attacks her and gives her a physical injury. He hasn’t done anything physical to me since I got out, 13 years ago, but it’s been constant warfare with him using the kids to torture me, he has no concern for the fact that he’s totally ruined their lives and futures in the process. Definate sociopath when his own childrens needs mean nothing to him, yet in the courtroom he plays it up that he’s a concerned parent and I almost vomit over the rediculous lies.
My question is this: when my youngest turns 18 and he no longer has her to use as a tool, (the courts insist on 50/50 placement, so she’s been his way to get into my home and my life) will he become desperate and escalate to more violent measures then he’s been keeping to. So far it’s been constant harrassment, threats and doing anything he can to extort money out of me through the courts and kids. He’s been satisfied with this because he feels he still has ‘control’ over me, when the youngest is 18 and I can put a complete stop to the phone calls etc, will this push him over the edge?

By: discordian

discordian — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:48:59 +0000

[quote]klaus_101_707 said: “The guy above me ,bigboss, (first of all that’s a very stupid name) is clearly lying. I can tell he just took information he picked up and tried to use it. For one he needs to take a serious grammar and punctuation lesson. 1 he said “we, the psychopaths are the normal one’s” it’s “we, the psychopaths, are the normal ones.” 2 “Normal’s” is supposed to be “Normals;” wow so many mistakes like “nich” to “niche” “dose” to “does” “themselfs” to “themselves” etc. Sociopaths are supposed to, at very least, come off educated. He’s just some worthless loser who wants to feel special. Haha i bet he honestly thinks he’s everything the page says, but really he’s just someone who “wants to be.””[/quote]

Spot on there, though why someone would want to be a sociopath is beyond me! Perhaps the lack of moral/ethical compass and having no regrets or remorse over anything you do to further yourself is one of the few benefits of this condition (that and money gained if your pretty successful at it like the more ruthless corporate executives and politicians with ASPD)

By: discordian

discordian — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:53:55 +0000

I’ve read pretty much everything on this site and others hoping to get some idea understanding on my behaviour. Though like most posters, I score pretty highly on “tests” to start with, though I’m currently being diagnosed by a proper doctor. The last few paragraphs of PJMurphy’s post #82 accurately sum up the pretense I put on in certain situations, like seeming empathetic towards people in need in order to get things from them, whether it be sex, drugs or money etc. I have several “girlfriends” both on and offline, none of which i even have the barest shred of emotion for and would leave the second i’m done with them (or get bored, which happens quite easily) without any sense of remorse or guilt. People think i’m nice, witty, charming with a great sense of humor, the guy that “can do no wrong, he’s so innocent and harmless” even while I secretly gain pleasure any way I can and treat most things in my life like a game that has to be won.

I get pissed off easily when I dont get what I want, I blame others for if I get caught out lying about things, but thankfully with a high IQ and decent memory I can usually turn the tables and get someone else to take the blame for it. I could go on and on about my experiences, maybe even start my own blog up one day detailing some of the more “horrific” things I’ve done and doing (though of course to me, this is just society’s view of whats wrong and bad, I dont give a flying.. fig…”)

So opinions anyone? Quite happy to share more detailed information on my situation if anyone cares to read