Dr. K
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So like part of, you know, I'm kind of, I don't know if this makes sense.
Everyone thinks like I'm a good guy.
I'm really not.
And I tried to tell your team I'm just like an ordinary person.
And like they were not having it.
But I have a lot of negative tendencies within me that I very intentionally try to like move away from.
So what is sociopathy?
Sociopathy is, so a sociopath is someone who is so high on the sociopathy scale that it like really impairs their function.
But one feature of sociopathy is a lack of empathy.
So when you have a sociopath, they can hurt people and they feel nothing.
The reason that psychiatrists have to be sociopathic is I have to be able to sit with someone who's suicidal and hopeless and depressed and not absorb that.
I have to put up a wall of empathy.
And I can turn it on and off like a valve.
So I've trained myself to like be more empathic.
Having kids was a big part of that.
So it's not that I'm evil.
But sociopathy is really common, like a surgeon has to cut into another human being and not feel bad about it.
Right.
Which sounds kind of weird, but like makes sense.
So there are absolutely these kinds of traits where if you kind of think about like.