Why do people automatically assume the sickos on Answers are psychopaths?!
Question:
Why do people automatically assume the sickos on Answers are psychopaths?
It's like the more honest you are about your self, or the more you make up a load of crap, the quicker people are to jump to conclusions...
Answers:
Here is a checklist for the diagnosis of psychopathology:
* 1. Superficial charm and above average intelligence.
* 2. Absence of delusions and other signs of irrational thinking.
* 3. Absence of nervousness or neurotic manifestations.
* 4. Unreliability.
* 5. Untruthfulness and insincerity.
* 6. Lack of remorse or shame.
* 7. Antisocial behavior without apparent compunction.
* 8. Poor judgment and failure to learn from experience.
* 9. Pathological egocentricity and incapacity to love.
* 10. General poverty in major affective reactions.
* 11. Specific loss of insight.
* 12. Unresponsiveness in general interpersonal relations.
* 13. Fantastic and uninviting behavior with drink, and sometimes without.
* 14. Suicide threats rarely carried out.
* 15. Sex life impersonal, trivial, and poorly integrated.
* 16. Failure to follow any life plan.
I have severe doubts as to whether I would know anyone well enough to diagnose this illness, with the exception of myself. In other words if you can diagnose yourself with this afflication, then you will be in a good position to spot the others who are affected by this illness.