The Stone Cold Sociopath

Are you feeling used and abused by someone in your life? Do you suspect that your partner could be a sociopath? Are you Googling behaviors like “cheating” “pathological liar” or “emotional abuse,” and coming up with terms like narcissist, sociopath, dark triad, and anti-social personality disorder?

Aren’t sociopaths criminals and serial killers?

Most sociopaths never kill anyone, but they are extremely damaging to your emotional, psychological, physical, and spiritual health.

Anti-social personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder are both “Cluster B” personality disorders listed in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, now in its fifth edition (DSM-5).

These personality disorders are characterized by dramatic, overly emotional, or unpredictable thinking or behavior. They not only include antisocial personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder but also borderline personality disorder and, histrionic personality disorder.

In the DSM-5, “sociopath” is not a recognized diagnosis, and neither is “psychopath.” Rather, the DSM-5 refers to “antisocial personality disorder,” as an umbrella diagnosis for exploitive and manipulative toxic individuals that cannot function properly in society, hence “anti-social”.