Hey, leave Kant out of this!

No, actually, it's a right.

Thanks for the warning.

If they were well-adjusted, then they probably wouldn't engage in sociopathic behavior.

Hmmm ... are we sure this is legit?

Okay, first of all, you sound like a total asshole armchair diagnosing your friend. "pseudologia fantastica"? Nobody calls it that. Could you be more pretentious if you tried?

As horrible as this sounds, sometimes she just appears like the shell of a person.

I used to be too trusting, which is why I have been hurt in certain friendships. But, in my defense, factitious patients are known to fool the entire medical community.

One of the most painful friendships I've had involved a woman with (what I suspect was) factitious disorder. She might have also has borderline personality disorder, because there is an overlap. Anyway, I expended a lot of effort and sympathy toward her illnesses, which I eventually discovered were fabricated. And…

That sounds like borderline personality disorder.

I knew a guy (somewhere on the narcissistic spectrum) who was also a wife beater. He has a pretty wide circle of friends, and they all knew, more or less, about his violent proclivities. What was really scary was that he could talk to you for ten minutes and not only tell you he beat his wife, but make you feel…

They're certainly not mutually exclusive. I think perhaps the only thing separating them is that the sociopath does not display the requite obsession with being admired.

When you're around a narcissist long enough, the signs start to rise to the surface.

Dealing with the lack of empathy is the worst. Most of the narcissists I have known were also liars, to greater or lesser degrees. And they absolutely did not care that lying ruins relationships and hurts people. Being hurt by someone who really doesn't care, and cannot be forced to recognize that hurt, is…

In the days I had FB, someone on my friend's list (I knew her through a friend) had posted literally THOUSANDS of pictures in lingerie. I always wondered about her (and felt a little sorry for her too).

You're after my own heart!! I've taken to leaving my phone at home some days ... which feels super irresponsible, but it's usually days I spend studying in the library and don't want to be bothered.

Can they ban IP addresses?

It is has nothing to do with how said wealth was acquired; it's about the insane concentration of that wealth.

Same. Remember - Crime against property is relatively unimportant. (Jenny Holzer - "Truisims")

It is has nothing to do with how said wealth is spent; it's about the insane concentration of that wealth.