Psychopaths & Sociopaths | Antisocial Personality Disorders

[Music] we've covered how to spot a psychopath or sociopath before but we've never gone this in-depth on the clinical diagnosis behind them antisocial personality disorder welcome to the med circle series antisocial personality disorder psychopaths sociopaths and how to spot them I loved you in this series more than maybe I've ever loved you it's it's an evolving really then the reason though is because I think you were more brutally honest than you've ever been you know listen I'll tell you this there are some things we talked about on med circle where there there's a lot of pain and suffering for the person experiencing it I think of our series on anxiety disorders yeah I think of our series on borderline personality these are people are experiencing a lot of subjective discomfort they really really are this group not so much subjective discomfort they're causing a lot of discomfort for other people and that's the thing you know and some people say but but they had a tough start this I said you know most people have a tough start don't go out and victimize other people and and the utter lack of insight and the utter lack of commitment to change and the fact that our culture somehow Revere's and celebrates it's like doesn't matter how you win the game as long as you win that kind of thinking is becoming more and more normative yeah and people with this pattern of antisocial personality disorder psychopathy sociopathy and all these variants they're advantaged in that situation which means that there means there's less empathy at the top that there's you know less value on things that make us human and connected and have each other's back and it's just sort of every man for himself for every woman for herself rather than a sense of community I as a psychologist have a problem with that yeah so I was willing to be brutally honest under these conditions well it and when I say brutally honest it's just you telling the truth I know I really it's not it's not you I don't and that people will see when they watch the series yeah it's just you tell it like it is and that's and when we deal with reality we can make better decisions well I'm not I listen I'm never gonna be your warm and fuzzy psychologist I am NOT the sunshine rain I get warm and fuzzy I do get warm and fuzzy and I'm actually an extraordinarily warm and fuzzy person you know as long as it's it's reciprocal and mutual yes yep but what I don't like doing is giving people sort of artificial feel-good moments mm-hmm that actually set them up for another fall absolutely I'd rather give them like the real deal even if the real deal is uncomfortable and then let them make their decisions accordingly that's how I engage in consultation and clinical you know in clinical work and how I teach students all of that you I can't guarantee that somebody armed with that reality will necessarily make the healthy decision but I at least can rest assured knowing that I gave them accurate information do you think that's why viewers respond so positively to you do they respond possible i I get I get a lot of comments on my social media and my email my emails Kyle I met circle comm send it my way I'm happy to chat with you I get a lot of comments and I would say there's they just really point out to your little antidotes your metaphors your big actionable advices in a way that's changing their lives I think people do a lot to me you know what I think that when you're an undergraduate teacher for so many years and they're getting more and more inattentive all the time so I'm trying to keep their attention you do become a teacher and I makes me so happy to hear that you know you make you make this content and you don't know if anyone is gonna see it I have to say ten years ago when I started working in this area of more toxic and difficult relationships if you will you know narcissistic psychopathic sociopathic all of that I was kind of laboring kind of quietly by myself in a room thinking I'll reach a handful of people and that'll be the end of it and I'll grow old it'll be fine I never dreamed that the world would take the changes it didn't nothing prepared me for this it was like you were studying some weird obscure disease that nobody cared about one day it became an epidemic and it did and there it was and so I think that I what-what devastates me I've said the Sun that circled frost say it again is the loss of human potential I see when people get sucked into relationships where they're devalued and invalidated and negated and dehumanize and mocked and abused those people people internalize those mocking voices and they're echoes that play in there and I see how much how much of people we lose and how much of the their words need to come to the world they don't even think their words are worthy and their efforts and their work and so it's really about educating them about what happened to them so that they can take their lives back that's my personal mission if it's reaching the viewers I'm so happy to hear that but I think I know it is and I hope and think that this series will do it on an even larger level I'm gonna ask you this question but I don't want you answer right now I want you to think of your your favorite moment of the series we just shot okay now it can't be me doctor Romani I am NOT a moment you okay and while you think of that I just want to tell viewers what they can expect throughout this series and remember you can go to med circle comm and subscribe to watch this series we talked about cluster B personality disorders what they need to know about that there are four personality disorders in that cluster B we talked about that that video is separate from the series but we filmed it today we talked about antisocial personality disorder Psychopaths and sociopaths what makes them different how they are somewhat similar when they get misinterpreted as a narcissism other disorders that are often misdiagnosed core co-occurring disorders we talk about the causes of Psychopaths and sociopaths are they born are they made as if both we talk about how to spot - the signs in a psychopath we taught literally the questions you can ask or the signs that you can look out of look out for when you're talking to someone both for Psychopaths and sociopaths and then we go on to about whether or not antisocial personality disorder sociopathy and psychopathy can be cured and what treatments are available for those people and then we go through what supporters can do if you're dealing with a significant other who has an antisocial personality disorder if a co-worker if a boss if your child does what you can do actual big takeaway pieces of advice from dr. Romani herself this was a long series and we covered a lot of stuff now what was your big takeaway what was your big your favorite moment I always welcome the opportunity to see if we can ever get ahead of heartache mmm and one thing I really thought we were able to make the point in this series is that when people you know we're talking about psychic relationships with Psychopaths or sociopaths or people with antisocial personality disorder that the writing was on the wall from the beginning and that if this might stop someone from entering or staying in one of these relationships oh or that they can impart that wisdom to someone else big that you know that the that the not getting in in the first place is the best prevention of all and the sense that sometimes that sort of the the desperate rush to get married to be in a relationship and to let yourself get blinded to patterns that are not good for you these folks often take advantage of that that vulnerability and people and the smoothness the glibness the you know so many people out there in the world think they don't deserve a relationship so they'll enter into one with somebody who doesn't treat them well and I think that if people everyone deserves to be loved and loved well yeah and that if it's anything less than that to give yourself permission to step away yes yes just to step away and to step into some things yes that is more valuable yes and to and to learn to really value themselves for I don't even say love yourself that sound so cliche to learn to value yourself because when you value yourself you treat yourself with value and you tend to be able to keep up the gates so that people who don't value you don't get in that you've got to be your own gatekeeper ain't nobody else gonna do that thank you you've got to be your own gatekeeper you are precious in that way protect yourself yeah I loved loved loved loved loved loved that my big takeaway was that I mean I had four hundred thousand of them and I talked about them in the series but is that the simple act of consciousness and being mindful mmm-hmm can be that prevention yeah yeah or at least can I lead you to those better decisions that better life yep and we talked about how to actually apply that it's easy to say well be mindful you know that's easy easily said but we really talk about actual steps that they can take what that looks like when you are mindful so that you can take your life and if it's already pretty good make it great and if it's not good make it great yes exactly you said it in the series I want people to live their optimal life best lives and then best you know and just to honor that and becomes you know to actualize themselves to open themselves up to potential and possibility so many people feel that you don't have the right to that it doesn't have to be anything grandiose it could just simply being life in a serene way in a peaceful way you not to follow anyone elses formula and I think that unfortunately when people get into these kinds of toxic relationships it's often because they're not living authentically they're not living honoring their inner voices because I think then at those times people may actually give themselves permission to walk away if it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck it's a duck just a few people it's a it's a psychopath her next book I that resonates so much with me what you said I mean I actually get chills and goose bumps that resonates so much I know that you will love this series you can go to med circle comm and become a subscriber you can this series you can access other series on a variety of mental health topics that matter to you your education and this education makes a difference in your life so take the time go to med circle comm and subscribe and thank you so much for taking your mental health seriously [Music]

Channel: MedCircle

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Length: 11min 31sec (691 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 24 2019