I notice you didn’t answer my questions on your diagnosis. I will assume you diagnosed yourself over the internet then. I figure if you were diagnosed via clinician as cluster B you would say so.
Right, a “journal article.” The epitome of establishment thinking.
I was listening to a podcast yesterday reading an article that talked about how fraudulent the entire industry is. 10,000 articles were recalled in 2023 for falsifying their data. I.e. actually making it up. This is likely a drop in the bucket in my understanding since the oversight agencies don’t have that much power and there are yet more, in fact the majority discovered as fraudulent fall into “review” after being discovered fraudulent. It’s something to do with academics only being paid of if they produce articles.
Remember this is the same industry, the science industry, that tells us that while all the wars, poverty and general evil allowed to exist or encouraged by the government, they REALLY CARE about the temperature in 10,000 years. The entire field of climate science backs up their preference for communism via global warming laws.
Anyway, I do not, as a rule, talk from my own wisdom. Sometimes I do a bit. But I almost always find a ‘giant’ in a certain field and stand on that persons shoulders. The Law of One itself, a philosopher I have mentioned a few times. Here is the giant in this area. Athena Walker. Diagnosed (brain scanned) psychopath:
You support the mainstream model started by Robert Hare correct?:
These challenges were taken as a personal insult to the proprietor of the PCL system, Robert Hare, and he sued to silence his critics. Defamation he cried, slander and damage to his legacy. The suit delayed the publication of the first swipe taken at Hare’s dominance in the field, but it was the first of many. Slowly more researchers found their voice and opposed the PCL-R and the widespread reach it had in the idea of what psychopathy was. More papers were published, more challenges arose, the more people started to notice. Psychopathy was getting an overhaul in understanding, and it was about time.
To this day, and every day up until now, anyone who dared approach psychopathy with an even hand, tried to look at it for what it actually was, divorced from behavior, was aggressively shunned. It was not a proper way to see things, and cracks in the psychological world were more and more evident. People were entrenched in a worldview. Ego and money were invested in these notions, and anything that threatened the delicate balance was rejected.
Does Borderline Personality overlap with Psychopathy?: Does Borderline Personality Disorder Overlap With Psychopathy?
Article: Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is described as a severe mental condition characterized by high affective instability, impulsive behaviors, autolytic attempts, or unstable interpersonal relationships [1]. Previous literature on BPD has focused mainly on symptoms of mood and anxiety and self-injurious behavior [2,3] but relatively little is known about the association between borderline personality disorder and psychopathic traits.
Athena: Well, based on your own description, there won’t be any. None of what is described above is remotely similar to psychopathy. However, based on the quality of the definition of psychopathy that is to follow, I am not certain how good of a definition of BPD this is either. Keep in mind, I am no expert in BPD. I know very little about it so I am in no way stating that this definition is accurate or representative of BPD at all.
Narcissism and psychopathy:
Stage One
Article: This stage is often called “Love Bombing.” The manipulator will saturate the target in as many ways possible with love and adoration, without a moment to come up for air… Etc.
Athena: Again, she provides no information about the reasoning that a psychopath would ever do this. She claims that this creates a one-way bond. What would a psychopath want with that? There is no chemical love in psychopathy. Even this author has admitted as such in other writings. So what could the payoff be for someone that is psychopathic? Psychopaths aren’t going to bother with this because it provides us with nothing. We do not have the necessary emotional experience to make this a reasonable claim. She never gives even a hint of reasoning.
So that is a passage, like many of hers, that puts to bed the ridiculousness of psychopathy being comorbid with NPD.