I am someone who is very close in a non-romantic way to someone who is most likely a sociopath.
Though I and several others who care deeply for this person have seen how deceitful and manipulative he has been and can be, we still consider ourselves to be his friends, and want very much to help him.
After reading about how hopeless treatment for the sociopath actually is, we are considering an intervention (with just the four of us), to let him know that we know about the deceit and manipulation, but that we love and care about him, and that we want him to let us in, to trust us, to let us trust him, to be his real friends.
I would like to know if this is a good idea- if this may help him, when it looks as though nothing else will, and how he might react.
I would also like to know if it might be helpful to educate him about Antisocial Personality Disorder, and to show him all of the signs, symptoms and characteristics of the disorder and explain how many of these we see in him.
2007-04-05
03:05:40
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Jane Doe
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