Sociopath And Psychopath Are Not A Diagnosis

There is no official diagnosis of Sociopath or Psychopath. The official term is Antisocial Personality Disorder.

Antisocial Personality Disorder encompasses what we often think of when we think of a Sociopath or Psychopath - it has nothing to do with whether or not they want to be around other people in the “social” sense.

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[PeshawariSoul]

Thats a great way to understand myself. I never heard this before thank you!

[VasiliZgRR]

My adult brother has unhealthy ISTP. He isolates himself from society, avoiding social contact as much as possible. He’s completely disregards emotions and lacks any kind of empathy. He also don’t follow rules, coldness, callous. He has ASPD with Schizoid traits with PTSD maybe, that’s what I found out about him. ASPD can isolate ma’am, there is more into it. They’re all individual, I live with my brother. He has a disturbed mindset who give you chills and give a cold unblinking predatory stare a lot in public towards people…Like he want to kill them…..He just show his true color when he walks in public, cold, unapproachable, unblinking stare. If he’s in hospital or dentist, he wear a fake mask, being polite etc. He’s not a sociopath at all, he’s calm, calculated, but impulsive at times…..He can get short-tempered when you bully him in severe way he can pull a knife easily. He’s complex person. I can’t understand him…Thanks for the video.

[jonnuanez]

Like Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver or the Joker rather than an introvert or a mean but not physically destructive person

[starbug]

How do these people get away with behaving this way in society? (Antisocial personality people)

[myheatgoesboomboomboom]

There is a diffrince btween psychopath and sochiopath a sociopath thinks i im good but im also bad i can be both so they can kinda have friends a psychopath is more intens im perfactly god if god saw my soul hel know im one of the good ones im not like other ppl im good realy good very very very like super good im a good good person all i do is good but if you look at his actions which he cant see he dosent give a fuck about being good at all its all about respact you respact him recognaiez he is in control youl get to stay alive for the moment

[XOChristianaNicole]

Gonna go on a little rant here..

Psychopathy really should fall under it’s own category — especially being there are pro-social psychopaths, such as neuroscientist, James Fallon.

Psychopathy is not mutually exclusive to malignancy, or a destructive behavior towards society.

That is not to state the potentiality doesn’t exist.

However, just like with on the difference between NPD and regular, normal narcissism — where people can do things, which, reflect NPD, yet, not have said personality disorder..

People can do things, which, reflect psychopathy — and not be such.

While the inverse of that is true, also — a person has the potential to be a psychopath, and have the ability to learn how to fit into society, successfully and, often, unnoticed.

That is why those who could classify as such can be so elusive.

Non-malignant psychopaths, simply, do not experience emotional empathy in the same manner as those who do not fall on the spectrum.

A lack or stunted ability to experience emotional empathy in no way implies a lack of value for human life, whatsoever.

Empathy is a learned process — regardless if it’s coming from an emotional or cognitive/logical state.

And I’d say those who are not malignant who fall on such a spectrum have an even greater ability learn and understand empathy — because they have fewer of their own emotions, which, would have the potential to hinder such.

And that is why those who fall on the psychopathic spectrum tend to be great leaders, also.

Emotional empathy has the potentiality to be a hinderance, in dire situations (and I would know — I and my family survived California’s most deadly wildfire, back in 2018).

However, cognitive empathy has more potential to do what needs to get done — a means to an end.

Again, I am not stating that there aren’t malignant psychopaths — not at all.

Though, I think to classify psychopathy in the same manner as, say, narcissism — when narcissists are highly emotional, and psychopaths don’t have the brain wiring to experience the same emotional depth, as someone who could classify as having NPD..

Well, I don’t really think it really makes too much sense.

I have diagnosed narcissism, in my family, and I know I fall on the psychopathy spectrum — due to the development of DID, as well as from a head injury, at age 3..

Meaning, I have a psychopathic alter.

I can even tell you where I feel this alter, always residing, in my brain.

I have two alters — one being the exact opposite; and then me, the main system.

Ever since changing my diet, and cutting out corn/corn-derivatives, while upping my beef intake — I have more emotional and physical sensations (I am, also, autistic/ADHD/CPTSD/Cushing’s Syndrome/Bi-Polar 1/OCD — and this has helped symptoms greatly, also).

However, I have always had the ability to turn off my empathy, when I find it necessary.

Not to dissociate.

Though, simply, dim.

Kinda like the dimmer switch on my grandmother’s chandelier, growing up.

I haven’t talked to a professional, in quite sometime, due to having family obligations that involved travel, however..

It can get a bit frustrating when I have shared my lack of or experience of long-term emotional depth, for nearly everyone I come in contact with; and even many I have built a relationship with (not all, however) — and it’s blamed on the trauma I experienced, due to how I grew up and surviving this past near decade of Munchhausen’s by Proxy, at the hands of my “caretaker” mother, while bedridden/housebound.

No.

I know what behaviors are trauma induced.

The way I feel and perceived the world is not such.

It’s very difficult to explain to people having a lack of emotional depth — and often fleeting, when it does arise..

Especially, when I am quite decent at human relations — and no longer cross those social boundaries, simply, to see what happens and see what I might feel, as result.

I have certainly crossed some social lines, in my day, however — if anything, I feel I had a better sense of what I was doing more than anyone else.

Because it was all plotted and schemed, for as long as I can remember (not each individual event — though, the lifestyle I was living).

Anyways, just my own experience, in the subject — I didn’t mean to write an entire novel or trauma dump.

All the best, and enjoy the rest of your weekend.

[Bambino_]

Then call it socially unacceptable or destructive. It’s a dumb name.

[rh]

Sounds like a description of most women these days