How to leave a psychopath

[moriah]

65. Yes, I can. Alcoholics, by definition, cannot ever be "cured".

This is according to the most respected and common treatment modality for alcoholism, Alcoholics Anonymous. Read the "Big Book". Alcoholism is a disease, that does not have a cure. It has treatment options.

So is antisocial personality disorder.

However, what *I* have been trying to assert, and you have been pointedly ignoring this entire time, is that just because someone's doctor tagged them as having antisocial personality disorder doesn't mean you should always run screaming for the hills. If you READ, which I have pointed out more than once, it is entirely possible for a jobless pot smoker who justifies laying up on his momma's couch to carry in his medical records somewhere the diagnosis of a psychopath, even if they aren't likely to kill you.

Just because someone's diagnosed as something doesn't make it so. Doctor's make mistakes.

And, suggesting that anyone should dump someone simply because of such a diagnosis bothers me, the same way that it bothers me to hear that many people will not bother with women with eating disorders or who have been sexually abused, because it's too much work.