I am completely insane.
I've learned a valuable lesson here...and that is that sociopath's are users, chronic liars, and manipulators. They move though life creating suffering for anyone who trusts them whether in business or personal. Yet emotionally they rarely suffer themselves, lacking the emotional mechanisms to feel what most people feel in normal human interaction. Sociopaths lack the internal monitors or morality, ethics, and caring that cause most of us to feel guilt and anxiety when we hurt others.
Sociopaths have the added advantage of often being extremely adept at the art of seduction. Unfortunately the goal of that seduction is not love but money. Most move so fast they their victims know little about them before becoming inextricably enmeshed. Sociopaths always seem to offer the moon at the outset of a relationship, but by the time they realized it and walk away, the moon was invariably eclipsed by the shadow of betrayal. God bless the next victims...beca use they will need Him. As I you.
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders fourth edition, DSM IV-TR, a widely used manual for diagnosing mental disorders, defines narcissistic personality disorder as:
A pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), a need for admiration, and lack of empathy, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by the following:
*has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements)
*is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love
*believes that he or she is "special" and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions)
requires excessive admiration
*has a sense of entitlement, i.e., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations
*is interpersonall y exploitative, i.e., takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends
*lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others
*is often envious of others or believes others are envious of him or her
shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes.
Just so you know.
