This sure has been an interesting thread although I'm sorry people felt uncomfortable with it.
My xah showed some of those symptoms. I certainly do not think of him as a sociopath and never did.
I think my mom was probably in the beginning/middle stages of alcoholism when she died of other causes. It is hard to reflect accurately but I don't think she really had any of those symptoms.
I'm a little to fearful to think what kind of mental illness label might be tacked on to a raging codie
I'm not going there.