A self-proclaimed psychopath who goes has found ways to use the disorder to further her career as a lawyer – and recently shared her tricks to help others become more successful.
M.E. Thomas, who practices in California, has advised non-psychopaths that they must let go of everyone else’s opinions and stopping identifying with things that they can’t control.
The second tip is to be emotion-free, something that she’s found increasingly easy because her emotional range is roughly equivalent to that of a three-year-old.
This has given her two main advantages to be more successful in her career: she doesn’t mind asking stupid questions because it doesn’t hurt her ego and she doesn’t care about gendered expectations.
M.E. Thomas has intermittently called herself a psychopath and a sociopath, but claimed she doesn’t have violent tendencies and is more prone to playing mental games
M.E. Thomas spoke about being a ‘sociopath’ on an episode of Dr. Phil in 2015 and wore a wig to disguise herself
M.E. Thomas is her pseudonym, but many reports have suggested her real name is Jamie Rebecca Lund, according to Above The Law.
Since a young age, ex-law professor and attorney Thomas said women are taught to not talk back to those in positions of power, to be smaller, and to take up less space, giving them a gendered ideology that she allegedly does not have.
Throughout her life, Thomas said in a Business Insider op-ed that she has never internalized the actions of others.
She warned that ‘people can become so wrapped up in taking offense or taking things personally that they’re not part of.’
Thomas used examples of global politics and football rivalries to advise non-psychopaths that their lives will be much happier and more fulfilling if they don’t associate with events that are out of their control.
M.E. Thomas published ‘Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight’ in 2013
‘Those things aren’t you, and you can’t control them,’ she wrote. ‘Not being swept away by a wave of something out of your control can help.’
But more than that, the California native warned that releasing any concerns about what other people think of you is imperative.
‘If you’re doing something because of what it looks like to others, that’s not a good reason to do it,’ she wrote.
Thomas said her psychopathic traits have helped her excel as a lawyer because she doesn’t need to tiptoe around other people’s feelings.
The lawyer also doesn’t mind asking stupid questions – knowing that this fearlessness gives her a 10 percent edge over others.
She explained that colleagues often think she’s chill, calm and can handle excess amounts of stress because she doesn’t feel the need to take their actions personally.
‘And I know there’s no reason to put on a show,’ Thomas wrote.
Yet, despite saying she doesn’t feel the need to put on a show for others, Thomas appeared on an episode of Dr. Phil in 2015, two years after she released her book ‘Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight.’
Thomas, who refers to herself as both a sociopath and a psychopath intermittently, told Dr. Phil that she has ‘carefully crafted [her] persona over the years,’ adding that ‘even now most people believe that I’m from a foreign country because I speak with a slight accent.’
Thomas told people that they should stop worrying about what other people think and stop obsessing about things they can’t control like sports or global politics
In her book, Thomas said she had wanted to murder someone who scolded her for getting on an off-limits escalator, but in her op-ed said she isn’t violent
Thomas is a lawyer in California and worked as a professor at St. Mary’s University, but said even though she was fired after her book came out, there was still a lot her students could gain by being taught by her
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In the new op-ed, Thomas revealed she was fired from her position as a law professor at St. Mary’s University shortly after her book was released due to employers believing she was a threat to students.
Thomas disagreed with her termination, writing: ‘I think my psychopathy gives me an edge in business and law.’
While Thomas has said she ‘is not a killer,’ in her book described an occasion when a city worker scolded her for using an off-limits escalator, prompting her to follow him as he walked away.
There was a ‘metallic’ taste in her mouth as Thomas fantasized about murdering the man, and only stopped trailing him when he disappeared from view.
‘I’m sure I wouldn’t have been able to actually kill him,’ she wrote, ‘but I’m also relatively certain I would have assaulted him.’
Thomas has also described herself as a ‘female psychopath,’ meaning she allegedly doesn’t have violent tendencies, like WHAT IS revealed in her book.
According to Psychology Today, psychopaths often have tend to fabricate stories or manipulate others.
Thomas claimed that as a ‘female psychopath,’ she is dominant in social ways: ‘Like being Queen Bee or being emotionally manipulative and using mental games,’ very different than male counterparts ‘who might be physically more dominating,’ she claimed.
