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Scared
im scared that im a psyhopath and that im just pretending to be a nice person and i that i dont have empathy im so scared omg
im scared that im a psyhopath and that im just pretending to be a nice person and i that i dont have empathy im so scared omg
True psychopaths rarely worry or get concerned, so the fact that you’re worrying that you are one means you aren’t. If you were you wouldn’t care this much. (I’m not a professional, hopefully you have a therapist and if you do let them know about this concern.) But this definitely just sounds like pure OCD
@Gwumbo what if im the only psyhopath that worries about being one
@denidom yes i have a therapist and im going to tell her next week
@denidom This is definitely OCD my friend, your brain is coming up with any excuse to prove your fears right, “a psychopath that worries that they’re a psychopath” is an oxymoron. Those two descriptions scientifically contradict one another. I’m glad to hear you have a therapist, for now, please try some mindfulness activities and I wish you the best.
lol I don’t mean to laugh because I struggle with this as well, but it’s actually so silly reading it from someone else. Like if I was with you right now I’d tell you how silly you sound and not to worry! Try to think how you would react if someone you loved came to you with this thought? What would you say. We have so much empathy and understanding for others at times and hardly any for ourselves
I feel like a lot of my fears are actually just centered around what other people think of me because I'm scared of being abandoned and no one loving me anymore. I don't actually feel like my fears are about being a good person. And then when I have this thought it makes me feel even worse because many people here genuinely seem to be scared of being a bad person. I feel like an actual bad person who's more concerned with appearances than anything else :(. I keep having these thoughts like what kind of person am I when I'm alone and with my thoughts. And then I get scared to be alone.
so i start therapy tomorrow. but bro it’s just getting worse and im so scared. like the thoughts are getting more frequent and i genuinely feel evil and i hate it. i keep thinking what if i do it and im scared im eventually gonna. i’m scared i give off a creepy vibe or im lying to myself or others. please tell me is this ocd? do i need to be actually worried? i’m really freaking out
Around 10 years ago when I started getting violent OCD intrusive thoughts, I also started fearing that I was a sociopath. I began overanalyzing everything — especially my emotions. It's like if I could prove I had emotions it proved I wasn't a sociopath. I care deeply about my family — I worry about them, I want them to be safe and happy, I want them to get theit deepest desires — but I don’t know what love "feels" like, if its supposed to feel like anything. People describe love as this warm, obvious, fuzzy emotion, but I don’t experience it the way I think I’m supposed to. Is it supposed to be intense? Constant? Loud? Because I’m not sure I’ve ever felt that. My family isn’t very emotionally expressive either. I cherish hugs from them when I get them, I initiate most hugs with my parents (but I don't like hugs from other people, like co workers) but overall my family doesnt show affection much, and that’s made me question if I’m even capable of love. I overanalyze my feelings constantly — especially after realizing I don’t feel connected to God in the way my old church said I should. I don’t love God. I don’t feel anything toward Him — we’ve never met obviously so I just never got a connection with Him. But growing up, that felt like a sin in itself. As a teen, I felt ashamed knowing I cared more for my parents than for God, especially when church messages said God had to come first. There’s a song by Mary Mary that says, “I love you more than my mother, my father…” and it used to make me feel broken. My feelings were in direct contradiction with what I was taught, and that shame never fully left me. OCD latched onto that hard. It’s only after a coworker passed away — and I found myself crying multiple times over it — that I realized I do care deeply for people. But even that realization felt pathetic. Why did I need such an extreme moment to feel something “real”? & why didn't I care for another creepy bigoted co worker when his son was sick? I felt nothing. I’m scared my OCD is convincing me that I’m heartless, even though I want connection. I crave love. I like hugs. It’s exhausting and terrifying to doubt my own humanity like this. I hate this fear. I hate that I don’t trust myself. I hate that OCD makes me question my morality, my emotions — everything that makes me me. Has anyone else experienced anything like this? How do I even explain this to a therapist
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