People often confuse these two terms and use each as if they have the same meaning. For those who do not know these are two separate words with two separate meanings.
What is a sociopath?
A sociopath is someone who has antisocial personality disorder. This is something that cannot even be diagnosed until someone is 18-years- old or more. These people lack remorse, are deceptive, and reckless when it comes to the safety of others.
What is a psychopath?
Psychopaths are considered to be more severe than those who are sociopaths. They are more likely to get in trouble with the law and are easily capable of blending into society. They are manipulative and cruel in all ways. If you could take all the things I said about the sociopath and triple them, that is a psychopath.
This could mean in a sense that psychopaths are sociopaths, but sociopaths are not psychopaths. Psychopaths are often narcissists and carry their superficial charm on their shoulder. They lack empathy and are unable to form deep emotional attachments to anyone.
Psychopaths have zero concern for anyone but themselves while the sociopath may be swayed by someone who has a bond with them.With thatbeing said, both of these two are able to commit terrible crimes and should be dealt with using caution. Unless you have had a personal experience with a psychopath chances are you won’t recognize one out side of a horror film.
Being a psychopath is genetic in a sense and while there is no one general cause it is rooted in flaws during brain development. While sociopaths are a bit more unpredictable, the real danger is the psychopath. Psychopaths remove themselves from their emotions so that they can carry out any ‘hurting’ they wish to inflict. Have you ever encountered a sociopath or a psychopath, and could you tell the difference before reading this?
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