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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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Less than a year ago, I had a very big anxiety flare up to the point that I felt as though I needed to report to the police / harm myself. I ended up leaving an anonymous tip at the police hotline about something that I know I didn’t even do but everything told me I had to or else I will go to jail. And similarly after that I called the help line and explained I had unwanted intrusive thoughts and I didn’t think I deserved to live for having those thoughts. After these many months and working with my therapist, I’ve been able to feel a lot less anxious around this topic and now I’m getting lots of anxiety about what I did that time when I was so anxious. I gave in to my compulsions and confessed for stuff that I know sounds bad saying out loud but only certain people will understand I would never do. So now I’m just looking for someone to relate and perhaps let me know that I don’t have anything to worry about? I know it’s bad to seek reassurance but I’m not sure where to go. And I’m worried I’m going to keep incriminating myself.
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Around 10 years ago when I started getting violent OCD intrusive thoughts, I also started fearing that I was a sociopath. I began overanalyzing everything — especially my emotions. It's like if I could prove I had emotions it proved I wasn't a sociopath. I care deeply about my family — I worry about them, I want them to be safe and happy, I want them to get theit deepest desires — but I don’t know what love "feels" like, if its supposed to feel like anything. People describe love as this warm, obvious, fuzzy emotion, but I don’t experience it the way I think I’m supposed to. Is it supposed to be intense? Constant? Loud? Because I’m not sure I’ve ever felt that. My family isn’t very emotionally expressive either. I cherish hugs from them when I get them, I initiate most hugs with my parents (but I don't like hugs from other people, like co workers) but overall my family doesnt show affection much, and that’s made me question if I’m even capable of love. I overanalyze my feelings constantly — especially after realizing I don’t feel connected to God in the way my old church said I should. I don’t love God. I don’t feel anything toward Him — we’ve never met obviously so I just never got a connection with Him. But growing up, that felt like a sin in itself. As a teen, I felt ashamed knowing I cared more for my parents than for God, especially when church messages said God had to come first. There’s a song by Mary Mary that says, “I love you more than my mother, my father…” and it used to make me feel broken. My feelings were in direct contradiction with what I was taught, and that shame never fully left me. OCD latched onto that hard. It’s only after a coworker passed away — and I found myself crying multiple times over it — that I realized I do care deeply for people. But even that realization felt pathetic. Why did I need such an extreme moment to feel something “real”? & why didn't I care for another creepy bigoted co worker when his son was sick? I felt nothing. I’m scared my OCD is convincing me that I’m heartless, even though I want connection. I crave love. I like hugs. It’s exhausting and terrifying to doubt my own humanity like this. I hate this fear. I hate that I don’t trust myself. I hate that OCD makes me question my morality, my emotions — everything that makes me me. Has anyone else experienced anything like this? How do I even explain this to a therapist
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Why did the compulsion/test people told me I did felt very wanted in the moment. But then I regret it now and afterwards. Still a compulsion, correct? It just didn't feel like a compulsion, but then again I don't know what those feel like
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