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Would I get in a car with this person and drive across the United States? The woman I spoke to, who will remain anonymous, says she was diagnosed as a psychopath in her mids, and the diagnostic process she describes appears to be in line with what Neumann says is required.
That said, our conversation was under an hour, and I am not a psychologist. That conversation, which has been edited for length, is below. When were you diagnosed as a psychopath? From age 26 to I went through the whole diagnostic process over several months. There were a certain number of doctors that were involved, and a lot of testing: neuropsych testing, personality testing, brain scans, a lot of different interviews and going through the history of my childhood. It was something that was arrived at over a decent period of time.
What precipitated that decision to start looking into a diagnosis? But I had gotten [an evaluation] as a teenager, and had no idea what the result of that was. I actually ended up contacting the same doctor who did the first workup. And he remembered me, which I thought was interesting. I wanted to know: why is my experience so different? Why do I not comprehend the basic interactions that, for other people, it just seems to be natural for them? I had no idea what it was going to evolve into.
I think there were a few times where I was ready to not care anymore, but I kept with it for some reason. At the end of it, he was a very smart person. He was able to actually talk to me about it. Once he explained it to me, it wa s: oh! Oh, all right. That makes sense. If you interviewed any walk of people, and based their entire profile based on [the institutionalized] version of that person, like neurotypicals or autistic people, bipolar people, you get a very different picture than if you interviewed them in their general lives.
There is also this mistaken thinking that all serial killers are psychopaths, which is just not even remotely true. But people hear this, and they associate [us with] serial killers. For some reason, people think we want to kill people. And I think that probably comes from the lack of empathy. People believe that if you have a lack of empathy, that automatically opens a floodgate of antisocial behavior. How does that work?
Well, we have cognitive empathy. So if your mother died, I can look at you, I can see that you are in pain. I may not feel the same pain, but I can understand you feel pain, and that series of behaviors usually warrants a certain response: comfort or interaction, engagement.
Which is hard, because you sort of go through life with the assumption that everybody experiences it like you do. Do you ever feel afraid?
We get adrenal responses. For me, life is very much in this immediate moment. Site last updated November 11, Natasha Tracy. How To Recognize and Identify Psychopathic Behavior Psychopaths and Shallow Emotions Having shallow emotion and a lack of empathy, fear and guilt altogether are diagnostic symptoms of psychopathy.
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