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Keep in mind, I know people with low/no empathy, which is a trait of psychopaths. I also know some people with narcissistic personality disorder. They are some of the kindest, most generous, caring people I know. Lacking empathy does not make you a bad person, it simply means that you struggle to be able to imagine yourself in someone’s else’s shoes and feel what they are feeling. It says nothing about your ability to feel sympathy, to be kind, to be helpful, or anything else. PsychologyToday did a great article about this:https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hide-and-seek/201505/empathy-vs-sympathy
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When I was a freshman in college, we all had to take psych evals. I tested on some level of psychopathy. When I explained my situation, it cleared a lot up. I'd just moved 1200 miles from home, had no friends yet, and coming from a sunny climate to a rainy one hadn't seen the sun in 6 weeks. Toss in PMS and voila! I tested a little over the edge, but wasn't. Not then. Not now. Sometimes life just takes it all out of a person. With determination and help, we fill back up again. Riding the waves of doubt through to the 'sunny' side so we don't train our brains to be okay with obsessing is worth the struggle.
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Try to keep in mind that not all psychopaths are bad people. They just don’t have the same emotions as most of society has. There are psychopaths out there that are normal people and do not cause harm to anyone .
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^^^^ I remember when I had trans ocd I used to take those online test and it said I was trans multiple times lol.
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Hello. I am diagnosed with ocd. I am really struggling right now, because I have this fear that my partner is a psychopath. He is a kind man and never hurt me, but I see some evidences, for example he said that he couldn't really feel deep emotions. Sometimes he struggles with feeling the other people emotions but his cognitive empathy is very good, cognitively he understands the emotions, so he helps people a lot (but what is he only helps because he want to be a hero??) And he said that it is weird for him, when peolpe are very emotional, and he is proud that he is always calm and could decide without the influence of emotions. And he could be easily bored, and he likes adrenaline. He is also very very smart, and he knows this very well. I have never seen him manipulate someone else, and I don't feel that he controlles me ( or am I just not recognizing it??) He let me do my own things, he is not jealous, not abusive etc. But a lot of small things are like the characteristic of psychopaths. So I am not afraid that he will kill me or something, I just have this fear that there is something that I don't see about him and I don't know his true personality. I am very anxious, that the past 2 and a half year was a LIE. Please someone help me, this is killing me!
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