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“If… you find yourself often pitying someone who consistently hurts you or other people, and who actively campaigns for your sympathy, the chances are close to one hundred percent that you are dealing with a sociopath.”

- The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout, PhD

1 in 25 Americans (4%) are sociopaths. Wow, that’s an amazing statistic. That’s more people than there are anorexics - which is considered an epidemic at 3.43%. It’s 100 times the number of people diagnosed with colon cancer! It’s an astounding figure, and it means that if you know 100 people, at least 4 of them qualify as sociopaths and they are probably active members of your life - and I don’t mean the Ted Bundy or Charles Manson sorts of sociopaths in what I’m saying - I mean the sort who make it under the radar and live without the major extremes acts of violence or other such criminalities.

These people have no problem shattering the lives of others - either purposefully or out of thoughtless negligence. They do not think twice about it and they literally do not care that others have been significantly harmed by their actions. Some even take perverse pleasure in orchestrating events to such an outcome. But most simply live what an outsider would see as empty and shallow connections to a world that sits beyond the comprehension of the person with the sociopathic condition.

That’s why I wanted to write this entry - to share what I’ve learned, and to tell you how to recognize the condition and how to protect yourself from the unthinkable acts such people will perform upon you if you are unaware and without defense.

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