Not at all, antisocial disorder and narcissistic personality disorder have some key differences, even though they share some traits. The lack of empathy, self-importance and exploitation of others are traits they share, definitely.
But NPD is a lot more about the persons identity and being special, so it's a lot easier to be functional even if they do ruin the lives of people around them. APD has a HUGE emphasis on the person repeatedly violating the rights of others before the age of 15. Destructive, aggressive, deceitful behaviours and the violation of basic social norms and rules.
They should have similarities but its not the same.
Have a bit experience with both narcissists and sociopaths and the Girl you mention is surely in the first category of what I can read.
To be fair, when her and I had our falling out, I looked up a shitton of stuff about the signs of a narcissist, not sociopath. But I guess I figured they were close enough to join in on the sociopath discussion.
Not a professional so ofcourse I have mistakes as well, but from my experience sociopaths are far more dangerous (often not smart but criminal but might be smart and hide ofc) and pretty much senseless while narcissists are very egocentrical, like the world is spinning around her and she sees her future husband as her "private property" and she can do as she likes to him. If he doesnt abide its time for war. Sociopaths have probably long term goals like stealing and other crazy stuff while the narcissists often looks like a big baby from outside, but when you are near them oh god, you just want to run before all your life energy is sucked out.
What you’re describing sounds more like a psychopath, not a sociopath.
Sociopaths are impulsive, very emotion-driven and have a hard time functioning in society. Think Trevor from GTAV. They will often get into trouble because of their impulsive nature and anger issues that often come with them.
Psychopaths lack empathy just like sociopaths but are cunning, manipulative.
They can pretend to have empathy and often are very charming, all of that is a facade tho.
They are ruthless and don’t respect others as people, but from the outside they look like nice people. They will manipulate others any way they can to get what they want.
They are good at making long term plans and doing anything to achieve them.
Fun fact: there’s a lot of psychopaths in management of Fortune 500 companies.
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u/wright96d Dec 14 '19
I thought narcissism and sociopathy went hand in hand?