Characteristics of a Sociopath

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You sound like your discribing a small child

Is it true that Psychopaths and Sociopaths are not the same are they different from each other

Like anybody they will do what's nessesary to further their adjenda

I'd love to watch your video but the audio is just too terrible and tinny and impossible to hear.

What is Trump? Narcissist, Sociopath or Psychopath?

My ex, a true sociopath, got this exact "stare" when I finally confronted him. This was many years after I had divorced him, and during a family function that invilved our grown sons, although in private. I had never witnessed that stare before that day, mainly because the occasion never presented itself for me to have to put him in his place. I wasn't scared, in the least, instead it was such an attention-getting reaction that had me feeling like "Wow, I must have really struck a nerve with this monster". After that, his retaliation, the smear campaign from Hell, had me questioning my existence, as he alienated two of our three sons from me.

The deceit that this monster was capable of had no limits, and the fabrications and twisted truths that he concocted trumped all truths. His ability to play victim was award-winning, however his pedestal is now crumbling, as his coherts/flying monkeys are seeing the demise of his protective cover.

I just broke up with a sociopath it has damaged me alot mentally 😅Although I have realized I couldn't fix or help her in any way shape or form.

The volume is too low and this guy has no charisma.

Your sound is too low and muffled

Im staring right now.......




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Evil manipulative egotistical arrogant cold and always playing victim im staying single forever

Yes, my ex sociopathic wife often gave me that sociopathic stare when upset.

Beautiful stuff

Excellent Informative and detailed I was married to a psychopath for 25 years . Eventually I realised this charming man with great work ethic and career who seemed responsible was actually a calculating sneak who lived a double life . Five years on some days I still can’t believe that was my life as it was MY life too trying to get on and make a marriage work not realising what or who I was dealing with .

volume!

Sir please speak louder in your other videos

u talk shit

I thought maybe one person had contacts in which made their eyes look extra intense.

I often take umbrage with the idea of lacking emotional depth, or the inability to read and understand emotions displayed by others. In fact, I find it no more difficult than reading a book, or checking the temperature in the room.

This was very well delivered and explained, thank you. I believe I was tormented as a child repeatedly by my sociopathic uncle's stare, he would use it to corner and intimidate me, when I least expected it. I was always on high alert, and I hated with all of my heart how he would so casually turn on that flip switch...he always favored me, he was incredibly obsessive and parasitic in his behavior towards me, acted like I was his one and only resource of love on earth. He treated me nicer than anyone, when he had an intense history of violence and emotional abuse. It was always treated like this thing that was okay, but it wasn't, I suffered inside, in silence, for many years...He really messed up my ability to attach to people, to myself, even...and made it easier for me to attach to people who aren't safe, without recognizing red flags and creating distance. I'd attach to them, instead, like I learned to attach to my uncle....I resent those memories, on some days, and how they disrupt my nervous system, still, and make me feel unsafe inside my own body, but, I'm glad there are qualified and educated people out there who can touch on the subject honestly, and give it a name, so I can work through those emotions with professional help, and heal. Thank you. ❤

They have no conscience. They have no sense of right or wrong. They are very jealous of someone else's success. My oldest brother is a textbook example. He ruined my life and the amount of people who have died from heroin overdoses because of his dope peddling is a gross amount. Everyone in my sick pathetic excuse of a family is or were fucked up. Thank God my parents are dead and my 3 worthless brothers have nothing to do with me. The saddest thing about these mental sickest is they truly don't have the capacity to realize how twisted and fucked up they are. They copied my parents who also led the example of how to believe they were perfect. Big Mistake!!!

SNAKE EYES

A very likely correction: its not a matter of they cant understand other people's feelings. Sociopaths actually have the ability to understand other people's feelings, but they choose to not understand them in order to keep themselves at the center of their own attention. Even when having a conscious thought of themselves should have empathy for others, they reject it and go back to keeping themselves at the center of their own attention.

Yes! I got involved with someone who sounds like this. I don't think she's aware of the consequences but she knows what she wants. I was vulnerable to her because I was more reliant on external validation at the time and let me tell you, that stare when you believe there's a genuine attraction.... but ye, she knows there's something not right with her, but hasn't got a clue what because she's focused on devaluing others. I kind of feel for her and have to maintain contact at work but I'm learning to be much more boundaried and not rely on her as a reliable mirror!

It sounds like you are confusing type 1 and type 2 psychopathy types. Type 1 (primary psychopathy) lacks empathy. Type 2 (sociopaths, ASPD personality construct) do not lack empathy (they have impaired empathy). Type 1 are charming and manipulative. Type 2 (sociopaths/ASPD) show criminal versatility and impulsiveness. Also, people who have truly dealt with psychopaths in their practice would not characterize their stare as "blank".

Great info.thx...however you may want to work on the quality of your audio...lots of room noise causes loss of articulation...justa suggestion!!!

After the discovery of the sociopathy how to back off from, and limit at arm's length a social relationship with a sociopath that is not physically convenient to entirely divorce? It seems that a sociopath rejected with their sociopathic manifestations called out could likely be dangerous.

They are like a bunny in the headlights. That creepy stare as if they just disengage for a few moments. Sometimes, it looks very fixated, when they are looking at a person or a thing. Great insight Darren. Thank you.

Dude your audio sucks

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I haven't completed the video so far i see some traits about sociopathy on me I can't understand why you are so sure that someone that can be sociopath will never take the blame of his actions....can someone have those traits but the blame of his actions????And if it takes the blame that exclude that person from been sociopath?what does it makes them then????

You are viewed as asset, audience, collateral damage or inconsequential. Asset and audience become collateral damage when they are no longer viable as asset or audience.
Once the charade fails they feel comfortable to drop the pretense of emotion without audience.
I will never again carry life insurance, only a burial policy.

Great documentary, love all the detailed breakdowns with the traits and all, helps me pigeonhole the sufferers !

Narcs & Sociopaths do not love you. They love what you do for them or what they can get out of you. You are like a toaster. They like what the toaster does for them but they do not love the toaster and if the toaster doesnt work as good anymore they will get a new toaster and you will be thrown in the garbage bin. They are parasites, period........

The best part of this video is how it is delivered in tone like your Nan reading a bedtime story.

Happy anniversary for 12 years with my narcissist sociopath. Obviously I didn't get anything he didn't do anything special with me, he went out and had some fun for himself behind my back. He thinks this is normal. The other day he gave me the stare.... For something he was accusing me of doing that I didn't do. It's a long story but that was the last straw I can't take anymore. He's taking so much from me but he thinks he's good he thinks he's been a wonderful husband. But I'm dying inside. I am still with him because he pays for my health insurance, but I pay for all of my needs I paid for the house I pay for everything he never has to buy anything for me. I feel very alone being married to this man. But yet he thinks he's doing good. 😵‍💫

Now I understand better. Thank you. I am currently in burn-out , trying to recover after working full time for a sociopath for over 10 years. I knew she was a narcissist , that was obvious but now I agree with my therapist who said her behavior is that of a sociopath. I made excuses for her anti social behavior to our customars and collegues and myself for years. "she is under a lot of stress" "she doesn t realise how she comes across" "she had a hard childhood" and when I finally couldn t take the financial, emotional abuse anymore she immediatly turned around and attacked me, bullied me, intimidated me. Only then I saw It she really had zero respect for me. Eventhough I gave my all for her business for many years and tried my all to have healthy communication. (Wich never worked as she leaves no room for other parties to speak) It was truely horrible. She drives on conflict and adrenaline so I had no choice but to completely block her. I still pity her, she has no real relations. Must be so lonely.

Stare... yes

Primetila sam da ti ljudi zovu samo kad njima nešto treba, a nisu tu kad zatrebaju nama, takodje i traze usluge...

Are there strongly differing degrees of Sociopathy? Someone related once about a case of someone who, seemingly, didn't really believe that anyone else existed besides himself, that everyone else in the world was just part of his imagination. Is there any basis to this story?

The sociopathic stare, sometimes also known as "shark eyes" or "dead eyes". It's a soulless, cold glare or blank look totally at odds with whatever emotion they're currently feigning or the situation at hand. It's as if their face is a mask and the eyes just painted-on.

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I've seen that stare.

Thank you!

Thank you for a very accurate description of sociopathic behaviour. It rings a bell!

Perfectly explained...😍

Absolutely excellent, concise explanation - especially the very important distinction that not all narcissists are sociopaths, but all sociopaths are narcissists. Learned that one the hard way myself. Thank you for your videos. They bring a little light into a very shadowed part of human interaction.