Dear Xeno - please don't try to twist and manipulate my words. It was a hypothesis - based on your, yes, lack of empathy and this manipulation. I'm obviously not a professional, I'm just indulging in the time honored FFL tradition of dishonesty and innuendo by slapping psychiatric labels on others.
RE: According to Ravi, I am a sociopath, or perhaps even a psychopath. Sorry, no empathy, no feelings of shame. On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Xenophaneros Anartaxius < anartax...@yahoo.com> wrote: > ** > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <authfriend@...> wrote: > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, doctordumbass@ <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > It seems like the people most interested in curing these npd > > > and socio/psycho-paths are those who feel threatened by their > > > behavior. > > > > On this forum, it's become almost a tradition among > > certain people here to diagnose FFL members they don't > > like with personality disorders as a way of putting > > them down. Or I should say "pretend to diagnose," > > because those who do it don't have a clue as to > > whether such a diagnosis is accurate. In many cases > > these faux mental health experts demonstrate an > > amazing degree of ignorance of their targets' actual > > personality traits as shown in their posts. > > > > The whole thing is disgracefully inappropriate and > > vicious, and those who indulge in it (Barry, Curtis, > > Share, Xeno, and their toadies) should be ashamed of > > themselves. > > > > The "cure" idea, BTW, has nothing to do with > > compassionate intent. It's just an extension of the > > putdown. > > According to Ravi, I am a sociopath, or perhaps even a psychopath. Sorry, > no empathy, no feelings of shame. 'Pretend to diagnose' is accurate. I do > not know of anyone here who has the credentials to make a real diagnosis. > It is just fun here, unless one is so deadly serious about life that the > weight of the world is on the shoulders. > > Whether people with these states of mind can be changed or not is a > legitimate question. The idea of 'cure' always suggests something abnormal > that a proper treatment will somehow 'fix'. I prefer to think of human > mental characteristics as being points on a Bell curve and each aspect is a > property of nature, made by nature, but some of those points very far from > the centre of the curve may have very strange properties for the individual > that has that point, and that those with points closer to the midpoint will > find that distant outlier intolerable. > > My thought is, if one is on FFL, then there has to be something very > strange about one to begin with. We are all nut cases looking for heaven on > a flat screen. > > >
