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Edited by afanoflafear: 12/4/2017 7:08:13 PM
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Explain to me the difference between a Psychopath and Sociopath please

Yes I tried Google, Urban Dictionary, read some online articles etc. but all I get is varying results. The more I try to distinguish them, the more alike they seem to me 🤔😩 [b]EDIT:[/b] Progress! Ok from my understanding psychopaths were simply born that way regardless of how good or bad there childhood was and their parents social economic status. Sociopaths were once [i]normal[/i] until external factors turned them into who they are now. Sociopaths are not as bad as psychopaths and it's even possible for them to revert back to their pre-sociopathic self. I find it odd the modern term used to replace both those words: "Anti-social Personal Disorder" contains the word [i]anti social[/i] when some are known to quickly learn and adapt to social behaviour of their 'friends', family, co-workers etc.

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  • All you had to do was google it. Instead you made a post. . . And then finally googled it.

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      Sociopath: reaching their goal not giving a -blam!- about their environments Psychopath: wants to see the world burn

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    • Any Dexter fans in here?

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    • One can read minds and burn things just by thinking about it. The other is socially awkward and likes knives.

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    • A psychopath is a wife. A sociopath is a girlfriend who farts in public.

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    • Psychopath- A person born with EXTREMELY low empathy Sociopath- Events turned them into a person of EXTREMELY low empathy I've always had very blow empathy,but I don't think I'm a psycho

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      • Psychopath is just an insane person Sociopath is an insanely nonsocial person

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        • To my knowledge... Psychopath: Someone who has no sympathy for human life nor understands it. Sociopath: someone who is incapable or has a difficult time discerning human emotion.

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          • Edited by Sainyule: 12/3/2017 12:00:49 AM
            There's barely if at all any, psychologists use the term "Antisocial Personality disorder"

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            • Edited by Ghostmime: 12/2/2017 11:31:47 PM
              They're exactly the same. The distinction is whether you were born one or made one. Psycho - in the mind. Socio - a result of psychosocial factors. Edit: you're still getting varying results lol.

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            • [quote]Urban Dictionary[/quote]

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            • One is a Republican and the other is a Democrat

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              • One is called a psychopath the other is called a sociopath.

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                  They are both on the same path, so try a different path.

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                • One is psychic, the other has social skills.

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                • Psychopaths are born, sociopaths are made. Nature vs. Nurture

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                  • Colloquially, they're pretty much the same in that they involve a disregard for usual societal norms of empathy, sociability, aversion to manipulation, etc, and as others have said only really differ in that some people describe sociopaths as made as opposed to psychopaths being born. Sociopath and psychopath aren't really clinical terms though, at least not anymore. You won't find them in the DSM-5. Instead, their general characteristics will be found under ASPD.

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                  • Sociopathic behavior is characterized by the ability or lack of ability to fit in with society due to lack of emotional understanding. A sociopath may be able to learn behaviors that make them appear "normal" bit their actions and emotions will have a disconnect. The behaviors they adopt will more be based on observation and emulation, rather than from a place of emotional motivation. They can still feel emotions, but tend not to really understand them. Many times, emotions coincide with direct physical symptoms. So, a sociopath may feel stressed out, but wouldn't recognize that feeling, instead, they would have severe stomach pain, headaches, or other physical symptoms because they don't understand what they are feeling and the don't deal with their feelings appropriately. Psychopathy is similar, in that there is a disconnect between what most people feel emotionally, and what they understand about emotions. Psychopaths could be completely unemotional, literally lacking the ability to feel anything. Many times, a psychopath will have one default emotion. They go through life, and as long as things go the way they want, or go in a way they are comfortable with, they could appear perfectly normal. But when anything happens where a normal person would feel sad, nervous, etc. They would instead always feel the same thing. Anger is the most common default emotion for psychopaths. So if something happened that would make a "normal" person sad, the psychopath would get angry. Often times, because a psychopath rarely feels anything when they do actually feel that one emotion, it becomes addicting. It is while feeling anger, to use that emotion as an example, that they feel a surge of adrenaline, the rush of being emotional, and it can cause them to seek situations in which they feel that more often and more intensely. This can mean that a psychopath feels no fear, sadness, regret, but is addicted to feeling angry. While angry, they may act in any number of ways, being prone to violence, because they feel no empathy toward others, nor do they have emotional ramifications based on the consequences of their actions. The main difference is that a sociopath feels emotions in a way that isn't the same as anyone else, tries to understand how to fit in, and works to cease feeling emotions because of the negative physical effects they have. A sociopath coukd feel guilt, which woukd result in really bad physical symptoms. A psychopath gets a high off of one particular feeling, and often starts seeking that high. They would never feel guilt, and if being angry causes them to be violent, they may become violent to create anger and feel that high. This is a pretty general and loose explanation, it's obviously way more complex than this. If you read a book called "The Iceman" about Richard Kuklinski, or watch the HBO interviews with him, it will show you a good example of a psychopath. I can't think of any great examples of a sociopath off the top of my head.

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                    • I’ve been called both on multiple occasions.

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                      • On a fundamental level, it's a matter of severity. Sociopathy is much, MUCH less severe than psychopathy, more characterized by a lack of cognitive empathy (EG, a sociopath doesn't think of consequences to anyone but them). Psychopathy goes much further, often characterized by an active desire to hurt others in some way (physical, emotional, mental, whatever). Whereas a sociopath might simply do something because they don't care about the consequences (con someone out of their money simply because they don't realize that it'll ruin the other person's life), a psychopath will take similar actions because they know it'll hurt the person, and relish in that.

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                        • Depends who you ask, those terms are mostly outdated now anyways and fall under ASPD at least in my really limited understanding.

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