Inside the mind of a sociopath

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Published 2024-07-24
Author Patric Gagne opens up to NBC News’ Savannah Sellers about her diagnosis and her new memoir to help others understand what it's like living with the complex personality type. NBCUniversal News Group is the media partner of Aspen Ideas Festival.

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All Comments (21)
  • @kyf3173
    It would have been better if they had had a psychologist with her to fact check and expand on some of her answers.
  • @js6728
    told by a sociopath, of the sociopaths, and still the sociopaths, and taught in the way of a sociopathic
  • @JuMPDesigns
    I think the appearance of "sociopathy" has been and will continue to increase as we are flooded with more and more audiovisual influences that feed us superficial examples of how to express ourselves. Watch a toddler staring into the youtube void for an hour, just sucking in the over dramatic videos with super extra gestures and "WOWWWWWW!!!!!" vibes. Like who is that supposed to even represent?? Not us(suspected sociopaths)
  • My younger sister was in this category but in more severe ways than this interviewee. My mother appears to have been this way, as well, so it seems inherited. A second sister is this way but masks it in general when around others so I would describe her as much more socially manipulative and has possessing a secretive life.
  • Psychopathy is part of the cluster B mental disorders. It’s super close to narcissistic personality disorder. But interesting there are nuances between the two. But many narcissistic personality disorder traits are exact matches of psychopathy.
  • She clearly. Wants this as her identity. I know a lot of people who broke into houses and stole cars who could not fit the criteria for antisocial personality disorder or even conduct disorder as a kid. Just because you break in this steel car, so it's only one component you have to fit 5 of the criteria for conduct disorder and 3 of the criteria for anti social personality disorder. And for the psychopathy checklist, you have to score high. In order to have to be considered psychopathic tendencies. I tried to refrain from watching videos like these. Because I am diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder and I hate it when people come online and try to spread misinformation about it.
  • Excellent way of redefining these personality disorders! 🎉😊
  • @_JackNapier
    Sociopath is not obsolete. It is so widespread that using it as a term of discernment is more about detailing specific conditions or: Narcissist w/Sociopathic tendencies 🃏🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
  • @mayastrong4646
    How can you be a good mother without having emotional love children need love they feel it they know it without you saying it it’s not robotic, and if they don’t feel your emotional love for them, and they feel unloved and the things she said about how people go on retreats to learn to not have negative self talk, and this is not well. There are other ways to heal negative self talk and not feeling good about yourself having low self-esteem, the purpose of going to these retreats, as not to not care, and not feel, it’s about growing our empathy. Having empathy for others we have too much apathy in this world right now, and it hurts people. It hurts the world and the Earth there is no good that comes from apathy, spiritual people are learning to be conscious for their mind quiet down we learn to control the mind and meditation and there’s lots and lots of proof on how meditation helps people, but it does not make us not care. We need to care more care more about ourselves to quiet that negative self talk not become psychopaths they don’t care some of the things she saying are very manipulative and untrue and she’s using them as excuses to normalize being a psychopath but a lot of it are lies.
  • @mayastrong4646
    How can you be a good mother without having emotional love children need love they feel it they know it without you saying it it’s not robotic, and if they don’t feel your emotional love for them, and they feel unloved
  • @mayastrong4646
    people don’t go to retreats to become apathetic. There are ways to work on our self-esteem and quiet. Our minds negative self talk, which is what meditation it’s all about. It’s about being conscious being aware of everything including self awareness psychopaths have no self-awareness. This lady is lying she’s trying to justify not having feelings and not caring and not having shame or guilt but those things are very important. That’s how we have empathy and compassion for others. Without empathy and compassion in this world. It is a cold ugly place we do not go to retreats to become. Not empathetic, we go to open our hearts to more love, more emotion, more empathy, more compassion, and that includes compassion for ourselves and self love she is misleading everyone for why people go to retreats and spiritual communities
  • @mayastrong4646
    The reason why people treat psychopaths with no empathy they treat them the way psychopaths treat. Others isn’t true. We have a lack of empathy for psychopaths, because psychopaths have no empathy. We feel they deserve it. Why should we have empathy for someone who doesn’t have any empathy it would be wasting our empathy for one thing they don’t care whether we have empathy
  • @BonitaBrandt
    She should not have had kids. No matter how much understanding she has of her disability, she is not capable of being a good mother.