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To make a long story short I’ve historically had a problem with faithfulness. When my wife was seeing a professional to deal with my infidelity I had a session with her doctor that lasted all of 10 minutes. This was about a year ago now.
She told me the doctor said that she believes I’m a sociopath with a bit of narcissism and mentioned that can be ascertained based on my response to a few questions, or lack of response. Not emotionally reacting in a normal way, I suppose.
I take a lot of steps to be conscious of the behaviors that lead to my indiscretions and avoid them or just acknowledge the thought pattern and purposely choose to act differently.
My question is, can this be diagnosed accurately that quickly and what are the odds of successfully dealing with it long term without treatment?
as I understand, sociopaths are made, not born, so I’m hoping I can win this fight long term.
One thing the doctor got 100% accurate is I can’t emotionally connect with people other than my wife and kids.
She told me the doctor said that she believes I’m a sociopath with a bit of narcissism and mentioned that can be ascertained based on my response to a few questions, or lack of response. Not emotionally reacting in a normal way, I suppose.
I take a lot of steps to be conscious of the behaviors that lead to my indiscretions and avoid them or just acknowledge the thought pattern and purposely choose to act differently.
My question is, can this be diagnosed accurately that quickly and what are the odds of successfully dealing with it long term without treatment?
as I understand, sociopaths are made, not born, so I’m hoping I can win this fight long term.
One thing the doctor got 100% accurate is I can’t emotionally connect with people other than my wife and kids.