Who is a sociopath?

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A sociopath is a person who has a personality disorder known as Antisocial Personality Disorder(ASPD).Sociopaths display extreme antisocial behavior and attitude. Sociopaths starts manifesting there symptoms at childhood but are normally diagnosed at either adolescents or adulthood













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According to health.com, some of the symptoms a sociopath include :-


  • Lack of empathy
  • Difficult relationships
  • Manipulativeness
  • Deceitfulness
  • Callousness
  • Hostility
  • Irresponsibility
  • Impulsivity
  • Risky behavior

Lack  of empathy

Empathy is the ability to understand what  the other person feels, being sorry or feeling guilty of doing something bad  and putting yourself in someone shoe and being aware  of one's feelings ,Sociopath lack this ability. Sociopaths seems to lack conscience and have the inability to feel any remorse.

Difficult relationships

Sociopaths have difficulties maintaining relationships. They normally have difficulty on creating emotional bond and maintaining  it. They rather exploit others than forging a relationship.

Deceitfulness

Sociopaths are known to be liars ,dishonest and deceitful. They lie  in order to get their way or to get them out of trouble.

Hostility

Sociopaths are known to be hostile, not only that they perceive people's behavior to be hostile and this gives them the urge to seek revenge.

Irresponsibility

Sociopaths are considered  to disregard obligation. It is common among sociopaths.

Risky behavior

Most sociopaths get involved in risky behaviors. They disregard their safety and safety of others. Some of this behaviors include unsafe sex  and criminal activities.



Something to note in this article is that not all sociopaths are criminals but some of the criminals have sociopathic behavior. Antisocial personality disorder can be treated through therapy.

I will use this term in some of cases if not most of the cases and I need my readers to understand  who is a sociopath

Thank you for taking your time and reading this article..




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