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RunEmmaRun
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Date: September 15, 2021 12:08AM
Your half sister sounds like one who really would have been well described had the committee that approves entries for the DSM actually kept up with the science and approved an entry for the scientific diagnosis of "Psychopath."
Have you seen the following list:
https://psychopathyis.org/what-is-a-psychopath/1. Excess Glibness or superficial charm
2. Grandiose sense of self-worth
3. Excess need for stimulation or proneness to boredom
4. pathological lying
5. cunning and manipulativeness
6. lack of remorse or guilt
7. shallow affect (superficial emotional responsiveness) [although they are extremely skilled at PRETENDING and ACTING to mimic emotional responses so that they fool experts]
8. callousness and lack of empathy [Psychopaths just don't care when bad things happen to other people]
9. parasitic lifestyle [Psychopaths prefer not to work for a living. They feel it is easier to take stuff from other people]
10. poor behavioral controls
11. sexual promiscuity [Psychopaths like one-night stands]
12. early behavior problems [As children, psychopaths often have a history of cruelty to others]
13. lack of realistic long-term goals [Psychopaths prefer crazy schemes over life or career goals]
14. impulsivity
15. irresponsibility [Psychopaths aren't big on doing the right thing]
16. failure to accept responsibility for own actions
17. many short-term marital relationships [an inability to commit to, or repeatedly betray, long-term relationships]
18. juvenile delinquency [skipping school (truancy)
19. revocation of conditional release [Even when psychopaths catch a break — like being let out of prison on probation — they tend to go back to committing crimes]
20. criminal versatility [Psychopaths differ from normal criminals because they don't really care which type of laws they break — they'll break any of them, under the right circumstances]
To score, Answer each Q on a scale of
0 = item does not apply, 1 = item applies somewhat, 2 = item definitely applies
Anyone who scores 30 and above is probably a psychopath.
From
https://www.encyclopedia.com/medicine/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/hare-psychopathy-checklist