Have you met or know a psychopath/sociopath?

[Martina]

Originally Posted by scootebaby

speaking of HIPAA..im not sure how serious it is taken here...i work for a pizza company...in less that a yr i received COMPLETE records on 2 different people from a mental health place in the town over from me,by fax...when i called to ask/inform them they were nonchalant,apologized and asked me to just shred them..didnt matter that i didnt have a shreddder


sorry for derail!

i found a bunch of medical paperwork including people's diagnosis codes and their social security numbers blowing along S. University in Ann Arbor some years ago. i picked it all up and took it to my office. i called the most likely source, and they had put a box of the stuff out on the street on a windy day. They seemed unconcerned, said the papers were duplicates that had been used for research.

re sociopaths, only one person, a relative though not a close one. He lived off women and was an alcoholic. He had no feelings of remorse about the people he hurt, including his sons.

It's scary the amount of narcissism that is out there. They aren't sociopaths, but they do a lot of harm. These people look and sound normal, but other people aren't that real to them. They are just tools to get the narcissist's needs met. If others aren't useful for that, then they can be treated in any way and it doesn't matter. i find these people pretty damned scary too. And their emotions, while intense, have a limited range. Anger and self-pity mixed with entitlement and scorn for others. i have so so learned to look for this profile. Oh yeah, and these folks, imo, have a distorted self-image. Their view of themselves is way different from how others see them.

On a more positive note, i teach in a high school, and my students seem to be very empathetic. They live hard lives, but they aren't hardened. It's good to see.