Category: Relationship

­How to Spot a Sociopath in 3 Steps

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Whether you’re seeking to spot a potential school shooter, a serious romantic partner, a total cheat at work, a scammer on the internet, or someone pushing a counterfeit business deal on you, it helps to understand some of the warning symptoms for sociopath. As I explained in Part 1 of this two-part series, sociopaths can have some deep and dangerous personality traits. The DSM-5 lists 10 guidelines for diagnosing antisocial personality disorder1 (ASPD), but it allows you to have professional training and a lot of knowledge about the individuals. I’m…

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What Is Love, and What Isn’t?

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Love is a strength of nature. However much we may need to, we can not control, demand, or take away it, any more than we can control the moon and the stars and the wind and the rain to come and go according to our notions. We may have an amazing limited ability to change the climate, but we do so at the prospect of upsetting an ecological balance we don’t fully grasp. Similarly, we can stage a violation or mount a courtship, but the issue is more likely to…

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Warning Signs of Gaslighting

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Gaslighting is a tactic in which a person or thing, in order to obtain more power, makes a victim question their existence. It works much more useful than you may think. Anyone is sensitive to Gaslighting, and it is also a common method of abusers, dictators, narcissists, and cult leaders. It is performed slowly, so the victim doesn’t understand how much they’ve been influenced. For example, in the film Gaslight (1944), a man manages his wife to the point where she thinks she is losing her mind. How Gaslighting typically…

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