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Morality, Immorality, Amorality, and the Psychopath

The psychopath is an equal opportunity opportunist.  Sometimes the route to his desires lies through immoral behavior; sometimes it resides through prosocial behavior.  At all times the psychopath is merely evaluating what course of action yields the best (and most immediately rewarding) outcome.  In this sense, the psychopath is a creature of amorality, caring not […]

Psychopathic Indifference – Empathy as a Weapon (Part 2)

The psychopath does not care about your struggles.  It was the day after Christmas and I was spending time at my favorite coffee shop.   A crying middle-aged woman comes up to me while I’m outside smoking and asks me for fifty dollars in order to buy diapers and necessities for her granddaughter, whom she claimed to […]

Psychopaths and Time

Does time pass differently for the psychopath relative to the neurotypical and is this related to her need for stimulation?  Many moons ago, I read a book called The Geography of Time.  It was a decent read about how different cultures experience the passage of time.  One thing that stuck out, although it was not elaborated […]

In Deep … The Price of Discourse

I have many motives for writing on the topics of ASPD and psychopathy.  As I enter my 18th month of conceptual continuity with my blog and continue to see exponential growth with readership, the journey is (almost) humbling.  I want to be a source for discourse regarding antisocial personalities.  I don’t necessarily owe it to anyone, but […]

Violent Peace – Why Psychopath/NT Alliances are Flawed

Every now and then on tumblr I see posts by psychopath-indentifying individuals welcoming support from neurotypical “allies.”  As in, they want to associate with those that are sympathetic to the psychopath’s mental state.  I do not understand this for many reasons.  Why would the wolf surround himself with sheep if he is not hungry?  Why, in […]

Psychopaths and Shallow Affect – Some Emotion, Not None

A shallow or blunted affect does not imply the complete absence of emotions.  This part of the psychopathic condition merely implies that the emotions felt by the psychopath are weaker and of shorter duration than that of the neurotypical.  It does not follow that the psychopath does not feel anything at all. Separating organic emotions […]

Flirting with Disaster – Psychopaths and Addiction

It started with one sip.  I hadn’t had alcohol in many months and I was determined to just have a drink to take off the edge.  One sip turned into a shot, and a shot turned into an eventual blackout.  What started as one drink turned into a frenzied drinking endeavor to satisfy my need […]

Necrosis – Psychopathic Parasitism Revisited

The neurotypical must cut out the dead flesh if they want to escape the parasitism of the psychopath.  The psychopath does not care whom he leeches from.  As long as their is benefit to be had for little in return, the psychopath will continue to suck their host dry. This parasitism is usually nothing personal. […]

Scarecrow – The Destructive Psychopath

The psychopath that acts out solely for the sake of acting out soon loses it all.  There is a reason that 77% of psychopaths are incarcerated.  This is because the vast majority of psychopaths do not know how to learn to be selective with their choices to be antisocial.  So many run wild with their destruction […]

Psychopaths and Appreciation

I am not certain that the psychopath can feel appreciation.  I’m certain this is related to our shallow affect, but it is nonetheless another example of how the psychopath is insulated from the emotional bonds that neurotypicals make with each other.  Whether it is having a feeling state for gifts or services received, such emotions of […]