This. This is why I hate when parents or caregivers tell kids to apologize and then move on like nothing is wrong. I realize this girl is likely a sociopath, but in general, we are seeing so so many people who think it’s fine just to say “Sorry” and move on like it’s a band-aid. There’s no true remorse or feeling that…

No mention of the family trip to Disneyland after she had been given bail, after her initial arrest? Her parents felt that she needed a holiday after the distressing events. Sadly, there would be no holiday to Disneyland for the family of the young man who had committed suicided. As a parent of teens- a combination of…

Sure. To be honest, I didn’t actually know the answer to your question (my engagement with the diagnostic criteria for BPD was with the DSM-IV-TR) so I went and did a bit of reading. Basically, the DSM 5 collapsed the axes into one axis for all diagnoses (including physical diagnoses). It’s hard to tell exactly why…

They’re not generally physically violent (despite Hollywood’s propensity for them), but they are incredibly dangerous emotionally. They’re usually charming, superficially friendly, and insidiously manipulative. They will take credit for your work; damage your relationships (by telling lies, having affairs with your…

The most damning part of all of this is the fact that Conrad Roy had second thoughts and she told him to get back in the car. If she really cared about his life at all, she would’ve called the cops or something, not told him to “get back in the fucken car.” Conrad had a moment of clarity and got out of the car only…

If I was him I would have suggested to her, “You do it first and tell me how it goes.”

For me the series of texts exchanged after he got out of the suicide car are the clincher.

Yeah, zero accountability is a fucking big ol’ red flag. And blatant lying as well, and then acting like YOU’RE the crazy one when you bring up -verbatim- what they’ve said. This woman will literally say “I’ve never said that” even if you have the text IN hand. She say she was hacked or that YOU took it out of context…

My mother-in-law has NPD and uses the sad faces/fake crying to get out of any trouble she may be in. This is exactly the same face she makes. We’ve had no contact for 3 years which has been heaven for me, but I hate knowing there’s other future victims of other sociopaths : (

What she did was no doubt awful. But this sets terrifying precedent. If I text you that you should murder somebody, am I liable if you do? How much of what we say in our private text conversations can be held against us? (To say nothing of the fact that she’s clearly mentally ill herself.)

Oh, Lord. SO punchable. Wanna punch it. Wannawannawanna.

I’ve lived with depression for a very long time, I’m not sure how long I’ve had it. It’s always been lurking in the back rooms of my mind. I had an on again off again boyfriend as a teen who used to do things like this to me he would have the same look on his face when he apologized everytime. I may not know this girl…

Now I’m not defending the end result at all, just trying to pathologize: is there a possibility she legitimately believed she was helping him? Does her intent matter, especially since it’s an involuntary manslaughter charge?

Yep, my mom just retired from teaching, she says the same thing. She blames technology too though, says more kids than ever have an incessant need for attention because of social media influences. That, and access to all types of videos and graphic violent imagery are desensitizing kids. Last year was her worst, more…

I almost feel like this is an extreme version of a teenager learning about/playing with being manipulative. I’m not trying to imply that this is normal behavior, but I could be a bit of a dick to boys when I was that age and sometimes played with their emotions just because I was exploring what kind of power I had in…

She looks like she really doesn’t understand why she’s there and why she’s being prosecuted. She doesn’t see it. Won’t see it. Scary chick.

As a teacher, I am seeing more students that I would describe as having no empathy. Not a lot. The majority of my students are good people (maybe not great students, but honestly good people), but there are more kids who seem to display signs of sociopathy than before. I also have had the largest number of students…

Yeah... no. There seems to be plenty of evidence that she was fully aware of what she did. We are all flawed human beings. I get annoyed with my husband easily when he eats loud. My mother is a shitty houseguest. The second anyone I know encourages someone to commit suicide, rehearses their reaction to the suicide,…

Who was the person receiving that message? I have to think that if I, even as a dumb teenager, received a message from a friend about how she was encouraging her boyfriend to kill himself, I would be pretty disturbed.

“He sent the message at 6:25 p.m., then told his mother he was leaving the house to visit a friend and not to expect him home for dinner. He made a short drive to a remote corner of the Fairhaven Kmart parking lot. At 6:28 p.m., he called Carter and talked to her for 43 minutes. At 7:12, she called him. The call…