What is the name of the condition where a person does not care about others and lies all the time and is emotionally dead?

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Actually, those symptoms sound like a few of the symptoms of someone who possibly - and I stress POSSIBLY - be suffering from sociopathy. The DMV notes numerous criteria and mental health history to be met before such a diagnosis can be made by a psychologist or pychiatrist, so be careful not to label anyone based only on a few unprofessionally diagnosed characteristics. Erika You are probably thinking of "schizophrenia". Schizophrenia is a difficult disease and hard on the person with it. There are medications that can help, but there is no cure. The person with schizophrenia must ALWAYS take their medications and if they skip a dose or refuse to take their medications as prescribed by the doctor they can become depressed, sometimes hear voices, and can have a complete mental break-down. They can disappear from their families and a person from a good home can end up on the seedy side of town and feel quite comfortable. Schizophrenics will lie (don't mean too) and gives the impression they have few emotions, but in truth, they are just totally confused. It's as if they are in a daze. Without the medications it's sad to see anyone with this disease because many of them hate to have the burden on their shoulders that they have this disease and many refuse to continue on with their medications because they want to be normal like anyone else. Until a psychiatrist or specialist in this field has actually diagnosed this person with schizophrenia then one should never accuse another of having this disease. If they do it's called "arm chair psychiatry." Narcissistic people can have some of these traits too. They can be extremely moody, perfectionists, demanding, unloving, and like to be in control of any situation of their lives. They have a "me attitude" and are argumentative with others. They are always right! They often don't know the meaning of love. They also have little regard for those with problems and consider others that admit they have a problem weak. Wishing you the best in 2006 Marcy My take is that it isn't just one cause. It is everything in their life. If they are drinking alcohol and/or using drugs, you could see the symptoms of acting like they don't care about anyone. It could also be depression if the person cannot feel others--or they have been abused so have learned to hold their feelings in. Lying all the time--that one so depends on the other possibilities and may go beyond a bad habit.

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those symptoms as the above poster say is very general and they have said most of the things that could cause them,

the one i know is aspergers syndrom,

where the person is unable to express emotions properly

so they seem emotionaly dead, like they dont care about people

i used to think my boyf was such a lier, until we discovered aspergers was the prob,

it means he is unable to explain what he is saying, it can come out very wrong, and you hear what they said and NOT what they were trying to say.

have a look at this site it gives a better explanation of the problem and its symptoms and maybe have the person see a psychologist

http://www.aspergerfoundation.org.uk/what_as.htm

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