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 🤔😩
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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.
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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