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[Tinkrbl44]

On 3/9/2015 brewhaha said:

Everytime I look in the mirror.

LOL !!

[foundinlv]

I never had any problem extricating myself from a bad scene or weirdness. Never hung around long enough to know if they were a sociopath. Have always been a really strong woman that needed very little prodding or dialogue when it came to setting myself free.
By the time the other person came home from work I was packed and gone with no forwarding address.

[CatsyCline]

OP so 30 years ago was 1985? Then who was the first husband you married to in 1970 and bought two homes with for three years?

[ROMARY]

Anyway, thanks for prompting me to go to the Psychology Today . com website. I'm going to check that site daily. I don't see any place to sign up for newsletters, so far. Maybe I'll run into an email newsletter option at a later date. Sometimes they just 'pop up'.

[Colonel Meow]

On 3/9/2015 Cakers1 said:

A diagnosis cannot be made on one trait, such as lying. Adult children of alcoholics often have that trait.

I'm not sure why the OP feels her ex was a sociopath, but I'm certainly glad she found a better life.

All the best to you ckr.

This is true. Not every manipulative liar is a sociopath. (In fact, very few of these are likely true sociopaths.) There is much, much more that goes into this diagnosis. I've worked in mental health for over a decade, often with a forensic population, and can tell you that I've probably worked with less than 2 dozen (or so) within that time frame. Also, I'll add that Psychology Today is not a very well respected publication in the mental health field.

[Cakers1]

On 3/9/2015 Colonel Meow said:

On 3/9/2015 Cakers1 said:

A diagnosis cannot be made on one trait, such as lying. Adult children of alcoholics often have that trait.

I'm not sure why the OP feels her ex was a sociopath, but I'm certainly glad she found a better life.

All the best to you ckr.

This is true. Not every manipulative liar is a sociopath. (In fact, very few of these are likely true sociopaths.) There is much, much more that goes into this diagnosis. I've worked in mental health for over a decade, often with a forensic population, and can tell you that I've probably worked with less than 2 dozen (or so) within that time frame. Also, I'll add that Psychology Today is not a very well respected publication in the mental health field.

CM: The APA owned it back in the 80's. I used to subscribe back then when I was in grad school. I don't know about it today in terms of reliability, but it was designed more for the general public to understand psy topics. I haven't read it in decades.

[Colonel Meow]

On 3/9/2015 Cakers1 said:

On 3/9/2015 Colonel Meow said:

On 3/9/2015 Cakers1 said:

A diagnosis cannot be made on one trait, such as lying. Adult children of alcoholics often have that trait.

I'm not sure why the OP feels her ex was a sociopath, but I'm certainly glad she found a better life.

All the best to you ckr.

This is true. Not every manipulative liar is a sociopath. (In fact, very few of these are likely true sociopaths.) There is much, much more that goes into this diagnosis. I've worked in mental health for over a decade, often with a forensic population, and can tell you that I've probably worked with less than 2 dozen (or so) within that time frame. Also, I'll add that Psychology Today is not a very well respected publication in the mental health field.

CM: The APA owned it back in the 80's. I used to subscribe back then when I was in grad school. I don't know about it today in terms of reliability, but it was designed more for the general public to understand psy topics. I haven't read it in decades.

I think this would be a very accurate way of describing it, Cakers. Not saying, of course, that it is a "bad" source of information - only that it presents topics in a very basic conceptual format that can (at times) trivialize the subject matter.

[lulu2]

On 3/9/2015 Colonel Meow said:

I think this would be a very accurate way of describing it, Cakers. Not saying, of course, that it is a "bad" source of information - only that it presents topics in a very basic conceptual format that can (at times) trivialize the subject matter.

Couple the magazine/journal with Psych 101 and you can be an expert here.

[Cakers1]

On 3/9/2015 lulu2 said:

On 3/9/2015 Colonel Meow said:

I think this would be a very accurate way of describing it, Cakers. Not saying, of course, that it is a "bad" source of information - only that it presents topics in a very basic conceptual format that can (at times) trivialize the subject matter.

Couple the magazine/journal with Psych 101 and you can be an expert here.

[hckynut]

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