You Might be a Psychopath (with apologies to Jeff Foxworthy)

"There is no evidence that we've been placed on this planet to be especially happy or especially normal.  And in fact our unhappiness and our strangeness, our anxieties and compulsions, those least fashionable aspects of our personalities are quite often what lead us to do rather interesting things."
     from  The Psychopathy Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry, Jon Ronson.  New York: Riverhead books, 2011.  page 271

If you possess that certain slick sick charm that has enabled you to live in a style that you are not used to, you might be a psychopath.

If disagreements with your spouse escalate into you screaming like a banshee, you might be a psychopath.

  If you have arranged for your elderly relative to sign up for benefits which they are not entitled to and then transfer funds from their account to yours on a monthly basis for years on end, you might be a psychopath.  

If you punch someone in the face and then accuse them of lying and claim that you are the victim, you might be a psychopath.

If you live off of others when they have money and kick them to the curb when their money runs out, you might be a psychopath.

If you can apologize in a convincing way when it suits your purposes, you might be a psychopath.

If you make promises that you have no intention of keeping, you might be a psychopath.

If you pretend to cry over the phone in order to convince someone that you "care," you might be a psychopath.

If you are living in a condo and have stocks and investments yet tell people that you are impoverished and starving in order to part them with their money, you might be a psychopath.

  

If you've ever claimed that you were driven to do something or that "they deserved it," you might be a psychopath.

If you care about getting caught but not about what you did, you might be a psychopath.

If you read this list and instantly hunt through a list of relatives and acquaintances who may have had the gall to write this, you might be a psychopath.

http://www.hare.org/

http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/199401/charming-psychopath

http://aftermath-surviving-psychopathy.org/

http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/criminal_mind/psychology/robert_hare/index.html

http://www.readersdigest.ca/health/healthy-living/are-you-psychopath

http://www.npr.org/2011/05/26/136619689/can-a-test-really-tell-whos-a-psychopath