How to Tell a Sociopath from a Psychopath
In order to highlight these roles, popular culture also branded the words we used to describe them into our collective consciousness.
Fortunately, most of us will never encounter such, but mentally ill and antisocial people exist.
They are hidden among us. Sometimes, they will be successful people in society, because they are often ruthless, hard-hearted and look fascinating, but have little or no regard for the feelings or needs of others.
These are called "successful" psychiatric patients because they may conduct pre-planned crimes after a risk assessment, or they can manipulate others to break the law while keeping themselves safe, they control the feelings of others.
Does this sound like someone you know? Ok, be careful. You know one; at least one. This prevalence is between 0.2% and 3.3% of the population.
What is the difference?
Psychiatric patients and antisocial people share some common characteristics, including the lack of compassion or compassion for others, the lack of guilt or the ability to be responsible for their own actions, the absence of law or social norms, and the tendency to violence. The core feature of both is the nature of deception and manipulation.
Antisocial people are usually emotionally unstable and extremely impulsive - their behavior is often more unstable than mentally ill patients. When it comes to the case – whether it is violence or non-violence, anti-social behavior is mostly due to impulsiveness. The lack of patience of anti-social people makes them more impulsive and lacks detailed planning.
On the other hand, people with mental illness will plan their crimes to the smallest details to calculate the risk and avoid being discovered. Smart mental patients will hardly leave clues that may lead to being caught. Psychiatric patients will not be ecstasy at all times, so there are fewer criminal errors. Both are manifested in continuous behavior, and many psychologists are still arguing whether the two should be different. However, for those who distinguish between the two, one thing is still there: the psychiatrist uses the terminology of the mentally ill to explain the cause of the antisocial personality disorder is hereditary. Social scholars refer to anti-social refers to a brain injury or behavior caused by abuse or neglect during childhood.
Mental illness is born and anti-social is caused by the day after tomorrow. In general, their differences are reflected in the controversy between innate and acquired.
All sociopaths are not criminals
Although it is true that there are many people in prison who are sociopathic (more than psychopathic), the antisocial personality disorder is not synonymous with delinquency. People who suffer from this disorder are simply more likely to have criminal conduct but are not intended for it. Many sociopaths and psychopaths are perfectly integrated into society, and although they tend to be more aggressive, they are not all murderers.
Sociopathic people have normally had behavioral problems as children, the antisocial personality disorder is characterized by a break with norms that leads to lies, deception, and even aggressive behavior towards others, animals, or even the property of others.
One of the risk factors to consider is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). This is one of the reasons for the importance of quickly diagnosing this type of disorder, in order to avoid complications that could be related.
Citation
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Psychopaths Versus Sociopaths
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