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How to Spot a Psychopath — Eight Traits They All Share
Protect Yourself by Knowing What to Look For.
I’ve been in a relationship with a psychopath for around four years. Though I’ve gained more than I lost in the process, I wouldn’t want to get into a similar situation again.
I especially value one lesson I learned as a result of this relationship — finding out that such people indeed exist.
In this story, I share with you how to spot a psychopath based on my personal experience and research done about this disorder.
But firstly, in case you’re not familiar with the character features of psychopaths, here they are briefly described from Psychiatric Times:
Psychopathy is characterized by diagnostic features such as superficial charm, high intelligence, poor judgment and failure to learn from experience, pathological egocentricity and incapacity for love, lack of remorse or shame, impulsivity, grandiose sense of self-worth, pathological lying, manipulative behavior, poor self-control, promiscuous sexual behavior, juvenile delinquency, and criminal versatility, among others.
So here are the eight traits which help to identify a psychopath.
