1224: Do Kin's Red Flags Mean He's Filling Body Bags? | Feedback Friday

What It Covers

Feedback Friday addresses listener dilemmas including concerns about a potentially dangerous relative showing psychopathic traits, navigating career advancement versus work-life balance, and processing relationship challenges complicated by schizoid personality disorder and medication side effects.

Key Questions Answered

• •Reporting dangerous behavior: When relatives exhibit psychopathic warning signs like animal cruelty and threats, document incidents with dates and details, request anonymous police wellness checks, and file reports to create a trail without requiring concrete proof of crimes.
• •Career advancement strategy: Higher salaries typically require increased responsibility and stress, but success depends on time management, delegation skills, and coping mechanisms rather than simply working longer hours. Evaluate whether extra income justifies lifestyle trade-offs before climbing the corporate ladder.
• •Personality disorder management: Schizoid personality disorder creates stable, pervasive patterns of emotional detachment that therapy can improve but not eliminate. SSRIs like sertraline can amplify withdrawal symptoms through emotional blunting, mimicking disorder relapse without actually causing it to return.
• •Relationship boundaries: When partners clearly state they see no future together and have concrete timelines like wanting children before age thirty-five, respecting their decision and focusing on personal treatment takes priority over fighting to save the relationship.