This is a somewhat new development for me in the past year or so where I have become emotionally detached to a very extreme level from anyone and everyone except one person, my long distance girlfriend who I've now been with for 2 years. I've watched graphic videos for a long time for the purpose of making me numb to the shock of seeing a horrific scene which will aid me in my career field.
I've now gotten to the point where I can see horrific videos that I can acknowledge are terrible and sad yet feel absolutely nothing when watching them. I've considered it fruitless to emotionally attach myself to other individuals other than my girlfriend as doing so would prevent me from serving the greater purpose of chasing evil individuals out of the area and protecting the public.
It's gotten to the point where I dissmiss or even talk down to others who are less analytical than I am. For instance, the George Floyd or Uvalde incidents are often brought up in a manner intended to makeout myself and others in my field to be cowards or murderers. My response is to show statistics on use of force incidents and literally millions of incidents where they did the opposite and defended the public at the expense of their safety, which is their fundamental duty. This is often followed up by me calling into question their lack of critical thinking skills for taking one incident as the example while ignoring millions of incidents where duty was fulfilled.
While I'm 100% correct on that and have no issue calling others out when someone doesn't perform their duty, my response is often seen as cold and condescending. With my girlfriend though, I am fully committed to showing her the love and tenderness she deserves, taking into full account her emotions and leaving no doubt that I love her with all of my heart every day.
I'm starting to question if I've taken this analytical approach too far and have now become a sociopath, do you believe I'm there?
Sociopaths are impulsive and very subjective, you don't sound like that so doubt it. Probably more psychopath if your biasing it on analytical but the fact you don't know you are.. kinda makes one go nah. Because psychopaths very much know they are as such it's why they hide it and pretend to be normal. However back to sociopaths while similar they often don't see that there doing something wrong unlike a psychopath who knows it full well. A sociopath will justify their actions by a victim card or was in the right somehow while deluding that is the truth. Meanwhile a psychopath will know it's wrong but not care because priority is themselves.
You don't sound like either and with a Girlfriend that you've been with 2 years? Yeah a psychopath wouldn't have that oytside of only trying to pretend normality. And a sociopath is way to impulsive to keep in a 2 year relationship normally nvm a LDR.
It does sound like it is some disconnect from empathy but Psychopathy? Seems inaccurate you would need a lot more than that.
Ps myself has disconnection from normailty when it comes to Empathy too but yeah it's not Psychopathy. As you can tell I've researched all this for myself many times before.
If you’re asking if you might be a sociopath then you probably aren’t. Something I’ve noticed about narcissists and sociopaths is they are not capable of self reflection.
You might be a psychopath but I can't diagnose you. I've heard that 40% of US police officers are psychopaths and I have no reason to believe any other country is much different.
