An engrossing, “completely fascinating” (Cosmopolitan) memoir revealing the author’s struggle to come to terms with her own sociopathy and shed light on the often maligned and misunderstood mental disorder.
Patric Gagne realized she made others uncomfortable before she started kindergarten. Something about her caused people to react in a way she didn’t understand. She suspected it was because she didn’t feel things the way other people did. Emotions like fear, guilt, and empathy eluded her. For the most part, she felt nothing. And she didn’t like the way that “nothing” felt.
In college, Patric finally confirmed what she’d long suspected. She was a sociopath. But even though it was the very first personality disorder identified—well over 200 years ago—sociopathy had been neglected by mental health professionals for decades. She was told there was no treatment, no hope for a normal life. But when Patric reconnects with an old flame, she gets a glimpse of a future beyond her diagnosis. If she’s capable of love, it must mean that she isn’t a like the madmen and evil villains in pop culture. With the help of her sweetheart (and some curious characters she meets along the way) she embarks on a mission to prove that the millions of Americans who share her diagnosis aren’t all monsters either.
This is the inspiring story of Patric’s journey to unlock the true nature of sociopathy and build a life of love and hope against all odds.
Milena
2025-05-14
Not very good. Just an attention seeking book, and she's not a sociopath. She's trying too hard to convince everyone she is one. It's quite a naive book. Very childishly written. And again she's not a sociopath, she's just a moron. She's saying things that most people do and feel more or less. Everyone wants to go crazy sometimes, nothing that is associated with sociopathy. And also what most people don't seem to understand is that so called psychopathy/sociopathy is just pseudoscience. Aspd is the only clinically proven condition that some people have
Jessica
2025-02-10
Wow! Interesting, couldn’t stop listening
Milena
2025-02-03
As a psychopath myself, I find this a little bit too much attention seeking as if we would be special in some way. No, we are not special and do not deserve special attention. But of course we do deserve to be open and free about our personality disorder and less stigmatized. We should be able to live freely and openly as anyone else with a personality disorder or other mental illness. Because we're just normal like anybody else, we're just thinking and feeling a bit differently which is not a crime. And most of us are kind and law abiding citizens just wanna get by and live a good life and nothing else. I don't want to harm anyone, I just want to live a happy life with lots of love, happiness, kindness, goodness and normal wealth so I can get by. I don't want any special attention - actually quite the opposite, I just want people to leave me alone and not be so fucking mean all the time. Neurotypicals are way more mean than psychopaths in my opinion. I think psychopaths think more before we speak and make sure that we don't say or do anything bad cause we cognitively can understand things better than neurotypicals with all their emotions and stuff getting in their way.
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