Scored 35 on the test...
But then again, I've been "misdiagnosed" with narcistic and avoidant personality disorder. "official tests" at therapists pretty much told me that psychopathology levels were really high on me. And in defense it was also said that I can manage to keep myself busy with other things rather than being a sociopath. That's how I manage to keep out of the red zone. Just hope boredom never kicks in...
Also; and that to some extent I don't care to be around people that much anyway, so that kinda makes up for not being exposed and put use of my so called personality disorders a lot.
In general I'd say that the best way to keep out of trouble if said disorders occur, is to just find stuff you like enough to not go wander and do "bad" things. The biggest problem I've seen thus far is, most stuff costs me money, which, if I'd need to work for it (collecting unemployment, halfway filing disability now), would interfere with my personal interests and motivations to keep "sane" so to say.
I once asked a therapist if my behaviour would be enough to lock someone up? But that would only be the case when something went wrong. Which is understandable, but to be honest, it's silly. People actually have to get hurt. That's also the catch 22 for most people to realize "he/she actually was crazy".
So yeah...
Guiltless fist fights aren't always unhealthy.
Where I come from, fist fights are just a way to seperate the men from the boys. Nothing dark or evil.
That's where psychology should look more into sociology and look at "cultural" things.
I mean, if psychologists look into your area they might see a lot of stuff that qualifies as deviant and as such label those people sociopaths or whatever.
Also add in; the effect it has on people who grow up there. Being exposed to behaviour that's normal to you, you'll act like you're "taught". but if you travel up 500 miles north for instance... It's obvious that you're weird/different compared to them. And if the things you do are in general things "a lot" of people wont do, it only adds to you being weird.
And with that, while writing this, a funny idea springs my mind.
What if... what if... you could map behavioural patterns based on areas within a country.
The only way we do it now is by country and take religion and "the way of living" in account. People eating other people on god knows what island isn't THAT weird in some places. Are those people inherently evil as well? I'm quite sure that the midwest in the US has some different notions and values than the LA area for instance. And the US being a big country, no wonder it's so diverse. Heck, The Netherlands, a country with 16 million people already has this going.
If you have such cultural charts around based on what people value, how they're being brought up and all, it'll be an interesting read to mix and match that to what people consider deviant behaviour only to conclude that in some parts of the country it's actually not weird, and you can't blame people for acting weird either... they don't know any better.
