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Is it normal to wonder if you are a psychopath? I think that every so often I have psychopathic urges, and I was wondering if other people have this happen. Do you feel you are a complete psychopath, or have absolutely no thoughts like that at all.
Elaborate in the comments below with your thoughts.
I found this really interesting:
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/436/the-psychopath-test
I think you'll realize that you have nothing to fear after listening to it.
I don't tend to take the whole traits of a psychopath seriously, many people can have most of the traits of a psychopath and not be one.
I have engaged in many of the psychopath "traits", but I know for a fact that I'm not a psychopath, my mentallity is fine.
Here's a list of things I've done from childhood to now, including parts of my personality.
I steal, I commit arson (big and small, almost made major damage to peoples well-being), I hurt people when the situation allows it, I used to abuse my little brother when he was a baby (I was young at the time, too), I'm not truthful, I lie most of the time in life, been told I am antisocial, I don't love people, I vandalize, I pretend to be friends with people while putting them through emotional pain, there is a history of mental instability in my family and I fake almost all of my emotions.
I was once tested for any personality or mental dissorders as a child, but I lied through all the questions asked.
The point being is that anybody can have all these traits, that doesn't make them a psychopath.
Dude you are most definitely a sociopath...You have all the traits of one, and give no reasons to why you aren't one. I think you are confused to what a psychopath/sociopath is. You don't have to be a mass murderer or a murderer at all to be a sociopath, you just need to have the traits you just mentioned, particularly the inability to love anyone.
I know those that people don't need to murder to be sociopathic, etc. I know there is a difference between a psychopath and a sociopath, and I don't believe myself to be either. I'm not 100% sure the differences between the two, but I know they're different.
I don't think I'm a sociopath, I believe my mind set to be a normal one.
Phsycopath's don't know their phsycopath's, so questioning that is a good sign your not... As for getting thoughts of doing crazy stuff its normal, what's not normal is not knowing its wrong to actually act upon them.
No I don't think so but I was asylum bound because of this. I had a girlfriend at age 15 and found out she was getting bullied of boys and after finding that out I started hearing voices I'm my head kill them hurt them stuff like that. I found one of them and left them in a critical condition with a large kitchen knife (UK no guns) i got away with it too until i repeated the offence against another one of the boys i got caught because of forensic evidence (a loch of my hair) and pleaded not guilty by means of insanity i got five years in sheriff hill lunatic asylum witch was extended to ten after a fight in the cafeteria left another inmate in a critical condition i was let out five months ago. My point don't keep those thoughts inside to yourself seek help before you end up like me
I don't think that question is a useful one unless it is to soothe your temporary curiosity about yourself.
I don't think there are a lot of corners in your head you aren't afraid of to at least walk into its respective directions. I guess that makes you able to move in a broader perspective inwardly as well as outwardly however the actions you take, seem rather to arise from a 'because you can' mentality driven by curiosity (which stems from the fact that you, in contrast to most people who don't even dare to think into some kind of directions), rather than 'you have no choice'. I bet you are sane enough thus thinking whether you are a psychopath or not is irrelevant; that seems more a question to drive out different opinions from people to add them to your database of human treats.
I'm often called a sociopath/psychopath/sadist, but the only one I've been diagnosed with is sadism. Screw the losers who think I'm psychopathic... I just love to cause pain...
All the time and it's hard to suppress you'll be perfect for the militry :)
Eh every time I'm on a subway platform I think about how easy it would be to push someone in front of an incoming train. Out of curiosity though, not intent to hurt someone.
No.
I just read about psychopaths and now I'm scared some of the stuff that was there is what I do!? I dont want to be a psychopath!? I want to live a happy normal life.
I have been diagnosed with several mental illnesses, mostly anxiety-related, and I take medication for it. But the medication doesn't solve everything. I have good days and bad days.
On my bad days, I often lapse into what I call my "dark moods", where I feel an emotion I can't explain and I start thinking I'm on the brink of losing my mind. During these times I feel as though one bad incident - even a small one - might be enough to cause me to "snap". I didn't always have "dark moods", but I have been getting them ever since I had what I believe was an episode of derealization back in January.
I worry that if I ever do "snap", then I might go out of control and try to hurt other people. I have had violent urges towards others in the past, though I didn't really act on them.
I'd say this is normal. Once I had thought of just killing dumb people in the world. I almost immediately came up with all the reasons not to do such a thing and I decided that it was fine to feel that way as long as you knew that acting on those thoughts is not the right way to live.
Personally, no. But I have extremely strong feelings about how people should treat each other and I'm not arrogant enough to rule out that this may be a mental illness (even if it seems positive). I've had a rough enough upbringing and have enough intelligence to know I was shaped by it, plus the knowledge that my family aren't the strongest mentally.
I actually feel more comforted by doubt than anything else, because it does mean I'm questioning myself as opposed to sticking rabidly to a viewpoint that isn't supportable.