Have you ever met a sociopath, psychopath, narcissist, or dark empath before? Well, this video could be the ultimate duel between super characters to determine who "wins" the title of "most harmful".
Disclaimer: This video is for information, education and is not to replace professional diagnoses or guidance. If you need help or direction please contact a mental health provider near you. This video is not made to attack or demonize anyone with any of these personality disorders, but to raise awareness and educate others about these personality disorders.
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Disclaimer: This video is for information, education and is not to replace professional diagnoses or guidance. If you need help or direction please contact a mental health provider near you. This video is not made to attack or demonize anyone with any of these personality disorders, but to raise awareness and educate others about these personality disorders.
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00:00 Have you ever met a sociopath, psychopath,
00:03 narcissist or dark empath before?
00:06 Well, this video could be the ultimate duel
00:08 between super characters to determine
00:10 who wins the title of most harmful.
00:13 These personality disorders have dark traits
00:16 or characteristics that make them dangerous
00:18 to the people around them in varying degrees.
00:21 Some personalities are more aggressive than others.
00:24 Some conceal themselves better than others.
00:26 But what they all have in common
00:27 is their manipulative traits.
00:29 While they all manipulate people to get what they want,
00:32 each has their unique way and reason behind why they do it.
00:36 So let's explore each dark personality type briefly
00:39 before going into which one could be the most harmful
00:42 to your mental health.
00:44 Number one, sociopaths.
00:46 Hailing from the spectrum
00:48 of antisocial personality disorder,
00:50 which by the way is not just preferring pizza over people
00:53 and weighing in with a weak conscience
00:55 coupled with a weak sense of empathy,
00:57 we have the sociopath.
01:00 They know they're wrong yet find justifications
01:02 instead of being good.
01:04 Sociopathy is characterized by, but not limited to,
01:07 clearly don't care how others feel,
01:09 attachment issues, unpredictable, hot-tempered behavior.
01:13 Their low empathy and weak conscience
01:15 makes lying and disregarding others
01:17 in pursuit of their own needs easier.
01:20 When confronted with consequences of their actions,
01:23 they react negatively
01:24 by showing spitefulness and recklessness.
01:26 Sociopathy is a chronic condition
01:29 that can be acquired by harsh family dynamics,
01:31 such as parental instability or sexual abuse.
01:35 Let's look at our next contender, psychopaths.
01:38 Also hailing from the spectrum
01:40 of antisocial personality disorder
01:42 and weighing in with zero empathy is the psychopath.
01:46 Any outward justification for their actions
01:48 is for performative purposes only.
01:50 Psychopathy does have some different specs
01:52 from its brethren, sociopathy.
01:55 Where the sociopath is an erratic volcano,
01:58 the psychopath is a silent, black, frozen abyss, brr.
02:03 The sociopath will show they don't care,
02:06 but the psychopath will convince you they do
02:08 when they really don't.
02:09 Spotting a sociopath is easy.
02:11 A psychopath makes it a point to appear
02:14 as normal as possible while hiding in plain sight.
02:17 The pros say that to diagnose a sociopath,
02:20 look for what's showing on the outside.
02:22 To diagnose a psychopath,
02:24 it's much more based on what's happening on the inside
02:26 and why.
02:28 Psychopathic qualities like recklessness and aggressiveness
02:31 are caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain,
02:34 not upbringing.
02:35 One of their weapons
02:36 is a non-automatic emotional response to others.
02:39 They can choose to understand how someone feels
02:42 if it benefits them.
02:44 While they, like sociopaths, are not necessarily violent,
02:48 they lack the regular restraints
02:49 and protections of empathy and conscience
02:52 to prevent them from becoming violent.
02:55 Number three, narcissists.
02:57 The narcissist is the diva with the most ego.
03:00 They believe everything is about and for them.
03:03 But snarking, you're such a narcissist.
03:06 When someone acts kinda douchey,
03:08 doesn't mean they have the disorder.
03:10 To a true narcissist, confidence, limits,
03:13 and basic affection are now self-superiority,
03:16 self-entitlement, and the expectation of praise
03:19 and servitude.
03:20 In their minds, they get extra because they are extra.
03:24 Everyone else is a tool, toy, or toaster
03:26 to be used until they're no benefit to the narcissist.
03:29 Then they're discarded.
03:31 According to one clinically confirmed case,
03:34 narcissism is self-defense
03:36 in the pursuit of four primary goals,
03:39 fuel, control, character traits, and residual advantages.
03:44 The fuel is whatever emotion they can evoke from you.
03:48 Emotion vampires, narcissists savor every ounce.
03:52 They enjoy having control over how you feel.
03:55 They steal character traits,
03:56 co-opting aspects of another person
03:59 and passing them off as their own.
04:00 Money, sex, and contacts are all residual benefits
04:03 from their supply.
04:05 This exploitative behavior stems from childhood trauma.
04:09 It could have been formed by being smothered in protection
04:11 and placed on a pedestal
04:13 or by being in an unstable environment.
04:16 And now, the surprising fourth, dark empaths.
04:20 This term introduced in a 2021 study
04:23 marks this contestant as a yet untested newcomer.
04:27 In this study, it was discovered
04:29 that these people tend to score high on empathy,
04:31 but also high on dark triad traits,
04:34 like narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy.
04:38 The dark empath could be described
04:40 as a black mirror version of ourselves.
04:42 They have everything the other personalities lack,
04:45 especially empathy.
04:46 Yes, empathy.
04:48 But the dark empath's empathy is cognitive only.
04:52 Empathy means if you hurt, I hurt.
04:55 The dark empath's cognitive empathy
04:56 means they fully understand the pain they cause.
05:00 They just don't feel it.
05:01 Even if they've been directly hurt in the past,
05:04 they intuitively get how others work and feel.
05:08 So like a thief with all the blueprints and passwords,
05:11 their manipulations are devastating.
05:14 For them, with great power comes great wrongness.
05:18 There's the bell to the round,
05:20 and the disorder that wins the title
05:22 of most harmful to your mental health is, honestly,
05:26 between the psychopath and the dark empath, it's a toss-up.
05:29 Or is it?
05:31 The psychopath has the zero empathy attack.
05:33 They have no restraints of conscious or empathy
05:35 and take advantage of others without remorse.
05:38 They relax your defenses by acting outwardly normal.
05:42 That's dangerous.
05:44 What about the dark empath then?
05:46 This could be the most dangerous personality type
05:48 because the dark empath can intuit,
05:51 as opposed to study, what other people are feeling.
05:54 This makes accurate manipulation far easier for them.
05:58 If you don't believe dark empaths are a thing,
06:02 the singular type of personality that is most dangerous
06:05 would be the psychopath, who is unshackled by conscience.
06:08 However, if you believe that the dark empath
06:11 is an entity unto itself, then this is the winner.
06:15 Beware their machinations,
06:17 as they have the ability to tune in
06:19 and focus attack through empathy.
06:22 Comment down below with your thoughts
06:23 on which is the most harmful and why you believe it is so.
06:27 Always remember too, that despite these personalities
06:30 being a psychological phenomenon,
06:32 which may or may not be conscious choices,
06:35 if you are the target,
06:36 you are never under any obligation to accept abuse.
06:40 Stay safe and we'll see you soon.