25 Signs You Could Be A Sociopath

You regularly say and do hurtful things to other people without a care in the world. You’ll demean, discourage, and put people down and not even know you’re doing it much less feel bad about it.

You are notorious for being emotionally removed. You don’t feel empathy for other people’s problems and only view relationships as a means to an end.

Overall, you lack any kind of moral identity and moral compass. Morals don’t play a part in your thinking. You’ll do whatever it takes to get what you want, regardless of the damage. Due to this, you probably have had a few run-ins with the police and maybe spent time in jail.

A cornerstone trait of the sociopath is lying. You compulsively lie to get what you want and manipulate and confuse a situation. It’s rare for you to show the usual signs of lying, too, like avoiding eye contact and looking nervous. Often, you’ll lie even when overwhelming evidence and facts have been set at your feet.

Narcissists only think about themselves and believe they’re the best thing to ever exist. This trait is another big calling card of a sociopath. You’re confident beyond a doubt that you’re benefiting everyone around you by your mere presence. Often, you’ll use people and then throw them away when you’re done with them.

You make others doubt themselves and pit people against each other for your own benefit. You’re a skilled manipulator that twists and turns situations to you advantage. You also know how to seduce and charm people to your viewpoint and to be on your side.

Seeing other people as objects and a means to an end, you use your charming personality as a tool to achieve your goals, making your emotions superficial and shallow. Once you have them in your grasp, the charm will wither away and your true personality will reveal itself gradually.

Emotional attachments with others have little to no value to you. You’re fine showing some of your emotions when it benefits you, like anger, but connecting with anyone on a healthy emotional level doesn’t interest you.

You refuse to believe anything is your fault. To avoid accountability, you blame others and project your flaws and shortcomings on to them, instead. You take this to an extra extent to the point of cruelty, wanting to inflict psychological pain on any person who points out a flaw.

Sociopaths don’t look at friendships as a mutual experience. Initially, you’ll be very charming and flattering with new friends, but your actions are always shallow and surface level. Eventually, your destructive behavior, lying, and manipulation drive your “friends” away. Due to this, you don’t keep friends around for too long.

While we all make mistakes, you will consistently make the same mistakes and show no remorse for making them, even after habitually repeating them over and over again.

Sociopaths regularly will have bouts of uncontrollable rage and anger. People regularly say you look and act like an irrational lunatic. Often, you’ll blow up and unleash on someone if things aren’t going your way. However, you can switch back to your charming and helpful self on a dime as if you hadn’t just had a huge meltdown.

Impulsive and needing instant gratification, you’re very reckless in your behavior, regardless of the consequences. You find yourself getting into trouble a lot from friends or another authority for your actions, but you never own up to any of it.

You tend to be a really bad employee with a bad work ethic. You usually can’t hold down a job. Rather than looking to help the company, you only want to help yourself. Eventually, the company fires you, but you’ll claim it’s not your fault.

Any form of physical “intimacy” is just that…physical and nothing more. It’s another one of your needs you have to fulfill and once you get it, you’ll hit the road. Of course, you’re very good at pretending up until it’s over.

Due to your impulsive and narcissistic attitude, you’re unreliable and flaky, bailing on others the moment it doesn’t benefit you. Even after leaving someone high and dry, you won’t apologize because you don’t think you did anything wrong.

If you’re bored, you decide to stir up some drama between your “friends” to make things more interesting, regardless of who it hurts or the fallout from it. Tapping into insecurities and emotions and twisting them against others is a skill you’ve honed and find entertaining.

You use gaslighting tactics on your significant other or friend. Gaslighting is when someone denies reality and twists it, saying things like, “That didn’t happen,” “You’re crazy!” or “You imagined it.” Sociopaths often use these tactics to manipulate and distract from reality and make the person question themselves.

Along with gaslighting, you love using others, whether it be a stranger or family member, to help validate your opinion to make your significant other or friend question themselves even more. You use it as a diversion tactic to make it look like you’re in the right and to make them look foolish, stupid, and alone.

In need of constant gratification and having little restraint, you love to go to raves, parties, and any place where you can fulfill your needs and desires, regardless of consequences. You often get drunk, high, and are a serial cheater.

You had plenty of odd and worrisome behavioral problems as a child that led to criminal activity and juvenile delinquency. Regardless of what parents, counselors, teachers, or others did, you never changed.

Again, finding yourself wanting instant gratification at all times and having little moral responsibility, you recklessly spend your own money and the money of others. Sociopaths have been known to even take out loans, mortgages, and credit cards out by forging their significant other’s signature.

With little emotional empathy but plenty of ego, you can’t understand why anyone has a problem with you. Nothing ever gets through to you that you need to change or admit fault to something you did. You think you’re the best thing ever and automatically assume someone else is to blame.

When someone wrongs you, your first go-to response is anger and a strong desire to get back at them. Not only that, but you will do everything it takes to follow through with that feeling, including putting them down, messing with their head, and inflicting as much pain as possible.

Ultimately, all you care about is power and control. To maintain control in a relationship, you easily twist reality, manipulate, manufacture reality, and use others emotions against them. Once you feel like you’re not in control of a situation or person, you fall back to rage, anger, and emotional manipulation to put you back in control.