Kristen Ogorman

“I had been reacting destructively to similar sensations for as long as I could remember. So why am I still doing it? I wondered. I didn’t need destructive behavior to neutralize my anxiety any more than I needed floaties to keep from drowning in a pool. I just need to learn how to fucking swim, I thought.”
― Patric Gagne, Sociopath

“my capacity for love is a fraction of David’s. But he expects me to match him all the time. And when I can’t, he takes it personally, as if I’m intentionally choosing not to love him the same way he loves me.”
― Patric Gagne, Sociopath

“Overcoming Destructive Beliefs, Feelings, and Behaviors: New Directions for Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy. We’d covered it in my first clinical psych class. Rational emotive behavioral therapy (REBT), developed by Columbia University psychologist Albert Ellis, is a treatment”
― Patric Gagne, Sociopath

“Psychologically speaking, sociopaths aren’t well-versed in compassion. They don’t experience guilt like everyone else. They don’t process emotion like everyone else. They don’t feel like everyone else. And it is this lack of feeling, many researchers believe, that causes them to behave aggressively and destructively. The sociopath’s subconscious desire to feel is what forces him to act out.”
― Patric Gagne, Sociopath