Can sociopaths love someone enough to feel empathy?

Question

This question is almost a certain no to some, but hear me out. I analyzed this myself quite closely and even spoke to this person about it deeply. I will be keeping gender and details anonymous for everyones safety. I have been talking to a sociopath (who revealed themselves to me as one) for under a week, and in this short time I have established a connection with them, as most sociopaths would want. It is their survival instinct. This person has told me to be careful with them and to not trust them because they will ruin me, which by itself shows as if they don’t want to harm me. At the same time, they say it’s because they love me and they haven’t ever felt this way before. They know I understand how they work and say they see something weird in me, and urge me to be careful on and on. Being stubborn and willing to help, I continue contact but I am curious. Is this possibly a sociopath showing empathy?

Answer 1

This question is almost a certain no to some, you say. It's not a "to some" issue. It is science, like the melting point of gold or the weight of water. It is what it is. And no, sociopaths cannot love. That's part of the criteria for that diagnosis. About one in a thousand might be reachable and have the ability to love restored to them, but that would require years of hospitalization in a high quality psych center at a cost of millions of dollars. And even THEN the recovery rate is less than 1%.

Answer 2

Don’t know please ask either a doctor thanks



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Answer 3

Well, for a layman, I have always thought that since a sociopath lack the moral judgement for right or wrong, that they lack the intrinsic ability for empathy much less love.





Before you ask, "Huh?" Hear me out.





To tell the difference between right and wrong, we have to be able to put ourselves into that person shoe. Not the decision we will make base on that but what we are able to perceive what the other person is going through.





Anyone able to watch those monster beheading another person and not feel at least queasy about some unfathomable thought or feeling are true sociopaths. They don't understand what the big deal is. The people doing the beheading, although are monsters in their own right, are also not sociopath. They know the difference between right or wrong. They have just accepted that it is their right and moral obligation to commit such deeds.





If you were to ask a true sociopath why they beheaded another human being, they would not try to give you an excuse beyond that they can so they did. If you were to ask those ****** why they did it, they would respond that it is their right and moral obligation under their religion and law to do so.





And since a sociopath cannot feel empathy, they cannot love. They can lust and posses but the give and take of a relationship base on love? No. For a true sociopath does not care about anyone but their self gratification and what they can take and posses. They have nothing to give in return for unless it benefit them in someway, they are not able to care enough to try.



Those that are functional sociopath with relationships and families has learned what most prey hunters learned. To be successful in a hunt, you need to blend in. Camouflage yourself among the prey so you can pick and choose the best prey with the least amount of effort. For that is all we are to them, prey.



TL:DR Although I doubt that the person you are talking about is a true sociopath as they cared enough to tell you that they are one and asked you to distance yourself, remember that true sociopath are prey hunters and to them, we are the greatest prey of all.

Answer 4

Sociopaths NEVER have empathy for anyone under any circumstance. They are not capable of ever feeling empathy. Sociopaths are masters of conning and using people for their own purposes.

Answer 5

NOT exactly. H Teh are still trying to psychologically manipulate and to certain extent control how you evluate them. Some sociopaths have bery high iqs.. The CAN be quite logical and objective about themselves, until "pull the right string' or "hit the right button'; and they lose their temper.. i don't if there are interminttently explosivie sociopaths, but there defintely ARE intermittently explosive narcissistic. I am one, but I am not NOT a sociopath..



And I am NO expert. I am NOT professionally qualified.



EmapthY is NOT "love.".You've staerted with FALSE PREMISE .



"...Empathy is the experience of understanding another person's thoughts, feelings, and condition from their point of view, rather than from your own. You try to imagine yourself in their place in order to understand what they are feeling or experiencing. Empathy facilitates prosocial (helping) behaviors that come from within, rather than being forced, so that we behave in a more compassionate manner...."





https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/empathy

Answer 6

Maybe, each person is different

Answer 7

Yes maybe