There's a black dog of despair sitting on my shoulder. My 25 year old son can only be described as a sociopath. His 'friendships' last only as long as it takes for people to be fed up with his abuse of them, but he's always on to the next sucker. How do we live with the pain of this? He had the same upbringing as his brother, who has turned into a fine citizen. None of his behaviour reflects the role models he had. Incidentally, with hindsight, we do see this behaviour going right back to when he was little. Please, someone, are we the only ones out there? So many days I wish I could die.
He lies, cheats, steals (I think) is a suave con man, uses people and uses his charm to con money etc from them. He is constantly on the move - running from his debts. He feels no compunction whatsoever to pay rent.
He has delusions of grandeur (this is where most money goes, supporting a lifestyle which he believes he deserves but shouldn't have to work for, like $800 suits to wear around kidding everyone he's a big business man while the reality is he has no job, )
He appears to have no conscience, takes no responsibility for his actions; everything that goes wrong is someone else's fault. he is extremely irrational and always has been.
He now elects to have no contact with any of his family.
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