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Default Oct 09, 2019 at 12:11 PM
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I know that being a phychopath is the lack of empathy. I have connections for my family and close friends, but other than I dont really know. Im just confused because I've only recently noticed that my emotions have been false for years.

My friend would point out that I would act different in every single conversation I would have with someone, individually.

The real problem for me is that i dont seem to feel any emotion but I'm able to show it.

Im just confused

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Hello The Lethean Man: I see this is your first post here on PC. So... welcome to Psych Central.

We here on PC cannot offer suggestions regarding mental health diagnoses. This is a job for a mental health professional. One forum, here on PC, that may be worth taking a look at would be the Anti-social Personality Disorder forum. Here's a link:

https://psychcentralforums.com/antis...lity-disorder/

You mentioned you're confused. One thing you might do, here on PC, is to take some of the quizzes & tests that are available. There's a link to them in the banner at the top of the page. However here's another link as well:

Psychological Quizzes and Tests

And then here are links to 3 articles, from Psych Central's archives, that may be of interest:

Antisocial Personality Disorder FAQs

Antisocial Personality Disorder Causes

Antisocial Personality Disorder Treatment

I hope you find PC to be of benefit.

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Default Nov 02, 2019 at 07:32 PM
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I know that being a phychopath is the lack of empathy. I have connections for my family and close friends, but other than I dont really know. Im just confused because I've only recently noticed that my emotions have been false for years.

My friend would point out that I would act different in every single conversation I would have with someone, individually.

The real problem for me is that i dont seem to feel any emotion but I'm able to show it.

Im just confused

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Psychopathy is not just about a lack of empathy, there is a lot more to it, such as a need to and get pleasure from looking at or causing suffering in others, often with wanting complete dominance, power and control over the other.

What do you mean by having false emotions, do you fake them with words and body language? If you do, why do you fake them? Is it because you don't feel them but still want to appear as a normal functioning person? It can also be that you don't feel much emotion yourself, but that your body still reacts on things, animals or people around you with emotional reactions, even if it's just minor like a smile when a person greets you in a friendly way.

Acting different in every single conversation can be a sign of adapting to much to another person. By looking at the reason why you're doing this, it could make it more easy to identify the problem. Some people may want to please every person, some want others to think of them in a positive way, some want to act in a way how they think others want them to act as a way of having "good" contact with the person, some act so much in "favor" of the other person that they forget they are a person as well with own wants, needs, interests, knowlegde, thoughts, feelings and opinings and some may act overly empathic, this could also explain why a person would act different in every single conversation.

Not having much emotions can be a result of abuse, such as narcissistic abuse, where a person is required to give up their own wants and feelings for the need for esteem of another person, but regardless of what the cause it, it doesn't have to mean a person also lacks empathy. A person can have barely any emotion, but still have empathy, this is very typical for people who dealt with narcissistic abuse.

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I know that being a phychopath is the lack of empathy. I have connections for my family and close friends, but other than I dont really know. Im just confused because I've only recently noticed that my emotions have been false for years.
Unlikely. There are a lot of things that can cause blunted emotions aside from primary psychopathy. Only way to find out for sure is to get tested.
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The Cluster B personality disorder often lack empathy. The best thing to do is to see a psychiatrist and go from there.

Psychopathy in itself is not a diagnosis. It is a sub category of antisocial personality disorder. The only way to know is to be professionally diagnosed though honestly most people don't ask if they are because it doesn't occur to them.
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The only way to know is to be professionally diagnosed.
A mental health professional will give his or her opinion based on what a person says. The chance of getting more useful insight is likely higher because of the education of the person than a person who barely has any knowlegde about it. I'd say usually it's the person with the problems who knows best what kind of problems they have. A person with 4-6 years of education in a certain area simply has knowlegde about the things this person learned and can easily be wrong, their knowlegde is limited to what they learned in their life.

I've studied things regarding behavior for years, and even though there were so many things I learned, there are also so many things I don't know. I think even if anyone will studie things for 50 years, there will still be a lot of things a person doesn't know. There will always be things that person doesn't know, but an other person, regardless of education, may know something about. Meaning there might be something I don't know, some mental health professional doesn't know, but maybe some other person does know something about because that person might learned something in their life some time that can contribute to useful insight about something.

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@The Lethean Man

Perhaps you're a young person[?], still finding your way, growing and getting to know who you are, which is quite normal. If you can find a calmness of spirit, know your likes and dislikes, then you'll be getting closer to the real you. But make sure you allow compassion for living things to grow, because that's something sorely lacking in our sorry old human race, friend.
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You don't sound like a psychopath to me. I really like what blueskyx wrote to you. There are so many possible reasons for the lack of emotions!
It can be trauma, attachment issues, asperger's... all kinds of things.

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Default Nov 05, 2019 at 07:25 PM
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My emotions are totally blunted. People talk about it and bring it up with me. I personally believe it is in part a response to what I went through several years ago when I was abused and tortured. Part of me died as a result of all that, there is no question. I'm here, but not all of me is. Add to that the fact that I am on a pretty good dose of lithium and it isn't really surprising that people notice this.

So, there are lots of possible explanations here, as mentioned by the wise people above. You need to consider and evaluate all these sorts of things before you head down the road of thinking you are a psychopath. Oh, and one last thing. I am certainly no psychiatrist or psychologist, but I am pretty sure no actual, card-carrying psychopath would ever write a post like you just did. They simply wouldn't care.

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