Is Your Anger Out of Control?
Understanding what triggers angry feelings can help you cope, posts Jane McGregor, author of Coping with Aggressive Behaviour
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Jane McGregor
Dr. Jane McGregor is a lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Science at Nottingham University. Her research and teaching area is addiction treatment and policy. With Tim McGregor she is the author of The Empathy Trap.
How to Be Assertive and Set Healthy Boundaries
Many people find it difficult to be assertive. Setting healthy boundaries can be the first steps to feeling you can take charge posts psychologist Jane McGregor
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How to Handle Sibling Rivalry
Why sibling rivalry is so rife, and how we can start to cope better with the uncomfortable feelings it creates. Advice from psychologist Jane McGregor
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Recovering from a Relationship with a Sociopath
Recovering from a relationship with a sociopath can be complicated and takes courage. Dr Jane McGregor continues her sociopath series with advice on how to look out for triggers and take care of yourself.
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How to Avoid Sociopaths on Online Dating Sites
Dr Jane McGregor offers all-important information about how to spot and avoid sociopaths on online dating sites.
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Are you Easy Prey for a Sociopath?
In a new post from Dr Jane McGregor in our sociopath series, learn about the Sociopath-Empath-Apath Triad and find out if you are likely to be easy prey for a sociopath.
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How To Spot Sociopath Women
Sociopath women are present among us, in some of our families and social groups, in some of our workplaces and in the public eye, throughout history and in literature.
They may be fewer in number than male sociopaths and viewed with less fear but do we have cause to be concerned about them?
How do sociopath women differ from sociopath men?
Sociopathy is a disorder of personality. At it's core is a pathological level of narcissism. The self-esteem of the sociopath is poorly regulated because the sociopath acts to protect and sustain an in?ated, but ultimately...
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Breaking Up With A Sociopath
Are you in a relationship where you are always in the wrong and chaos is the norm? Your partner doesn’t show any concern for anyone other than themselves and has extreme antisocial tendencies?
The chances are you are in a relationship with a sociopath. Sociopaths don’t care if they hurt, bully or maim. They have no conscience and show no remorse. Exiting a relationship of this sort can be painful and difficult but being aware of our former behaviours helps us gain insight, which in turn helps keep us from getting inadvertently (re)trapped in a cycle of...
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Why Won't We Help Each Other Out?
What prompts us to ignore the distress of other people? We’ve all found ourselves in situations - the times we’ve seen someone taunted and didn’t intervene; when we’ve driven past a car that has broken down, assuming another driver would pull over to help. We’ve noticed a young man slumped on the pavement, and not gone over to check if he’s okay. We witness a problem; consider doing something, then respond by doing... nothing. Something holds us back. So why don’t we help in these situations?
Apathy can immobilise us when we feel the impulse to flee and help at the...
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Can You Be Too Empathetic?
Do you experience overwhelming feelings when confronted with lots of other people? Do people, even strangers, pour out their hearts to you? Do you care more about other people’s feelings and well-being than your own?
If so you may be highly empathetic. Individuals with a highly empathetic temperament are often kind and caring, putting others before themselves. However, these talents can be viewed as weaknesses, as empathetic people are overly sensitive to others’ remarks and actions. They are too alert to the suffering of others and suffer on their behalf....
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How Apathy Blocks Empathy
Empathy is vital for cooperation and friendship. Without empathy there would be no humanity, just a world of disparate individuals without the social glue to hold them together.
Empathy is the experience of understanding another person's perspective – you place yourself in their shoes and feel what they are feeling. When we empathise we not only mirror the distress of the other person, but are moved to respond in helping ways. In other words, empathy helps us take care of one another.
When we are distressed by the suffering of others, that distress becomes...
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Dealing with Difficult Family Members
Do you have difficult family members, someone who doesn’t always make for good company? Take 45-year old Simon. He’s been married to Ali for 15 years, and though she loves him, she struggles to cope with his irritating ways. Why does he spend so many hours a day by himself, most often hidden away playing computer games? And when they do go out, he can’t seem to hold a proper conservation without getting flustered. She can’t stand the way he procrastinates all the time, and is irritable whenever she asks him to do things to help her out. She is fed up that, as she puts it,...
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Are You in a Relationship With a Narcissist?
All of us can be selfish at times, but some of us are selfish all of the time! There’s nothing wrong with a little ‘me-time’, but some people are so self-preoccupied that they're unable to form healthy relationships. If that sounds like your partner, you may be in a relationship with a narcissist.
Narcissists, in bygone days called megalomaniacs or severely egocentric, are people who spend the entire time wrapped up in themselves. Narcissism occurs in a spectrum of severity. In its more extreme form it is narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), which affects...
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Is Your Partner a Sociopath?
Sociopaths are people with little or no conscience or ability to empathize with other peoples’ feelings. One sociopath in the course of their lifetime will harm many people but hurt most those with whom they have intimate and close relations. Although many operate as seeming ‘model citizens’, behind the façade they have interpersonal deficits such as grandiosity, arrogance and deceitfulness, lack of guilt and empathy, and impulsive and occasionally criminal behaviours.
It’s easy to miss these traits in someone you love because you are not expecting to see them....
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How to Spot a Sociopath at Work
You could be working with a sociopath. Does your usually charming colleague ever surprise you with the ease with which they make ruthless decisions? Do you have a boss who loves to humiliate people in meetings? Have you been on the receiving end of a campaign of harassment at work because you challenged the work practices of your colleague? Have you had a colleague take credit for your idea and pass it off as his/her own?
Estimates suggest that one in every 25 people in the world is a sociopath. Many people think sociopaths are cold-blooded murderers, but in fact...
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