Patric Gagne: Sociopaths, compulsive behaviours, and theft

About this episode

<p>Sociopathy should be understood as a spectrum disorder. It’s a disorder that affects roughly 5% of the population – similar to the number of people who have depression or anxiety. Patric Gagne is a sociopath.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In this chat with Fearne, Patric explains the difference between a psychopath and a sociopath. Sociopaths have access to inherent emotions like sadness and happiness, but struggle with learned social emotions like remorse, guilt, empathy, and love. There’s also a huge feeling of apathy for Patric, which in the past led her to anti-social behaviours like stealing cars and breaking into houses.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Fearne also points out the benefits of not caring what others think of you; while she people pleases a lot, she can see the freedom in having a lack of a filter. They chat about how to function in a relationship when you have to communicate any kind of mental disorder or illness too.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Patric’s memoir, Sociopath, is this month’s Happy Place Book Club read. Come and be part of the Book Club discussions on Instagram @happyplacebookclub.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Sociopath is out now.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://pod.fo/e/22dba5" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Listen to Book Club Meets: Jo Cheetham</a></p><p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><p><a href="https://pod.fo/e/23811a" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Listen to Book Club Meets: Jennie Godfrey</a></p><br><p><br></p><p>Thanks to Bluebird (an imprint of Pan Macmillan) for the Sociopath audiobook extract.</p><br><p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>