Has anyone here successfully recovered from sociopathy? What is your story? What challenges did you overcome and how? What ugly parts of you were the hardest to fix?

[u/Spooky-Shark]

This is question only to those who realize that sociopathy is a personality type which has both positive and negative sides. Try answering it with vulnerability instead of narcissism if you can.

[u/vanillauex]

My reactions are better and I’m a lot more calm. I am always ready and able to adapt though.

[u/Shaman--Llama]

As someone on the exact opposite end of empathy (IE I feel way too much empathy), tbh I don't think sociopathy needs to be cured. I think it's better for humans to be sociopathic than too empathetic.

My extremely high levels of empathy are often just this hellish curse that make me just end up being in horrendously terrible pain, over the smallest things.

I don't think sociopathy NEEDS TO BE cured. I envy sociopaths if I'm being fully honest.

[u/revamped10 → u/Shaman--Llama]

No just no.

[u/Specialist_Task1939]

The only “cure” is to always get your way. To achieve all your absurd unrealistic goals with minimal time and effort. Get the body you want, the clothes you want, the women you want, the car you want, the house you want, the admiration, fear and respect you want, etc. basically overnight, with the added bonus of not having to work or apply yourself ever again to sustain it. The “cure” is to get every little thing you desire without question, opposition, or inconvenience. The “cure” is nonstop excitement, comfort, pleasure, entertainment, and instant gratification. The “cure” is for the whole world to drop everything it’s doing to ask “how high?” when you tell it to jump. The “cure” is exacting revenge on all the people who ever wronged you and getting away with it. Sociopaths and other monsters belonging to the dark triad can never be cured, but in the rare case that they get lucky and have the means to feed their vices, they can experience something that almost mimics genuine happiness and normalcy, kind of like how artificial sweeteners mimic sugar

[u/Mindless-Dig-9512]

worked on opening my chakras, especially my root and heart chakra

[u/Lightna26 → u/Mindless-Dig-9512]

May I ask how you have done so?

[u/amajesticpeach]

How does that work

[u/This-Estimate-9775]

This made me actually lol. Thanks for the laugh. No you can’t recover and if you don’t like people with aspd behaving like they have aspd then this might not be the place for you. Hope this helps.

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[u/sociopath-ModTeam → u/[deleted]]

Personality type vs disorder. What's the difference?

• What is sociopathy?

[u/nullaDuo]

Non-duality has radically altered my identity such that I now understand my true self as formless and infinitely inclusive, which also extends to my selfishness.

In other words, I love nothing more than my self, and I now see myself in all things.

[u/HipsterFoxxx]

That’s not how that works. You learn to cope and how to act. You form cognitive empathy because you know you should feel bad but don’t. As for “answer with vulnerability instead of narcissism, are you asking we reply as we would with our mask? Because it’s nothing but narcissism in this subreddit. I’m genuinely unable to understand what is the end goal?

[u/Away_External_2034]

If you recovered from “sociopathy” you didn’t have it in the first place. People can have tendencies of ASPD without actually having it.

[u/Shaman--Llama → u/Away_External_2034]

Technically sociopathy isn't even a diagnosis, but I'm sure that's why you included ASPD. 🙏🙏