Have you ever known someone who seemed to be sociopathic?

My bosses seem to have this issue. I feel like my school board and headmasters are run by sociopath, they fire people at will at last minute time which cause them unable to find a job (teachers are usually hired in February, all teaching positions are usually filled by this time of the year). They lied, used underhanded method, stole school regulation document from their previous workplace and copied it as school regulation for this school, but they expected us to teach morals to the students.

Diagnosing a psychopath (there is actually no such thing as a sociopath anymore, per DSM distinctions) is actually very involved and complicated. Not obeying the law isn't actually a classifier, though it does speak to some of the symptoms. As tempting as it is, I would not try to diagnose him.It's enough to say "that guy is destructive, unpleasant, and not good to be around.

" Period. Disregard for the law often goes hand in hand with willing to be violent because the thinking is often "no one else is important, only I matter." That does pave the way for being willing to cause harm.

It doesn't necessarily mean he's dangerous though. He could very well be a narcissistic jerk. A true psychopath has no conscience.

A psychopath is essentially so emotionally devoid that they are incapable of connecting with another person. They have so sympathy, no empathy, and they cannot feel love or attachment. This gives them a capacity for violence, which is amplified by the fact that they feel very little fear.

They are not worried about getting caught or punished for causing harm. It's easy to dislike someone so much that the label seems to apply, but again, the diagnosis is very complicated. Very few people are qualified to make this diagnosis, including most psychiatrists.

Having said that, I have known someone I suspected of being psychopathic. I learned to avoid her quickly.At this point, it doesn't matter what she was. I made sure she was not connected to my life.

I know one person who seems to be. However, as another answerer said, diagnosing is difficult and many people have at least some empathy inside them somewhere. The person I know of seems to omit large amounts of information in order to maintain their perspective and blame other people for things that happen in life.

They creatively ignore what's around them in order to affirm their version of a set of events. They don't have any particular desire to be fair or objective, and they pretty much exist solely in order to sell you on their ideas and concepts. For what it's worth, this person recently went to jail for causing a death while driving recklessly.

He's shown little sympathy or regret and has publicly stated that "accidents happen. " It doesn't seem it's occurred to him that he was being irresponsible and should have been more careful.

My step son is sociopathic. It is a horrible existance for his father and I. He has no concious what so ever.

I am exasperated by the way he lies, steals, manipulates, etc. He is not violent per se but he has attacked my youngest child twice. I have tried to get him to come after me so that I can get him removed but he wont. He only goes after my son.

He tried to go at my two daughters but they both told him that they would hurt him permanately so he backed down. He will be 18 on Aug 27. I told him that for his birthday I was buying him a new suitcase and a 1 way bus ticket back to California to be with his real mom.

I will never let this kid back into my home. It has been a chaotic mess since he got here 2 years ago.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.