Sociopath And Psychopaths

Psychopaths have a conscience and lack morality. Sociopaths have a conscience and sense of morality.Psychopathy and sociopathy are non-diagnosable conditions. People who show psychopathy traits are more than likely to receive a diagnosis of mental health disorder.Mental Disorders more commonly known as DSM is used to diagnose mental health disorders. Psychopathy often confused with psychosis. Psychosis is involved in a break with reality and can be associated with certain disorders like bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Whereas psychopathy is involved with symptoms of personality traits that include a lack of conscience and morality. People who are diagnosed as psychotic, have experienced delusions, hallucinations, and even paranoia. They believe, see and hear things that are not really there. A person who is psychotic sometimes hears voices that will command them to be violent. Psychopaths have no issues seeing reality from non-reality. There are no voices inside their heads. They are fully aware of their behavior, the choose to be violent if they feel it is necessary. New evidence shows that violence has a biological or genetic connection

They’re distinctive traits include living a parasitic lifestyle, lack of responsibility for their actions, glibness, and a lack of realistic long term goals (“Psychopathic”). They do not learn from their experiences and cannot form meaningful relationships. They continuously engage in antisocial behavior, punishment does not have an affect on their behavior, and they are emotionally immature (Hare, Psychopathy 9). They find it hard to control their impulses and commonly hold many short-term relationships, often engaging in promiscuous sexual behavior. (“Psychopathic”). Frequently, they fail to plan ahead, have a low frustration acceptance, and have no problem lying blatantly to someone’s face. Psychopaths don’t feel remorseful if they mistreat or hurt someone, in fact, the person’s safety, as well as their own, is disregarded in order for the psychopath to get what they want (Hare, “Psychopath vs. Antisocial”). An easy way to describe a psychopath is a human who lives a predatory lifestyle (“Psychopathic”).

Psychopathy is an issue that people tend to look over, until it turns violent. Psychopaths find their joy in violence. Psychopaths are happy when people are getting hurt, but are very manipulative and can seem sweet at times. Eric was a psychopath, he seemed sweet-faced until the day he went crazy. Sociopathy is different. Sociopaths are very shy, sometimes angry but don't like to hurt people. Sociopaths are hurting inside more than hurting others.

The Center for Disease Control reports about 3.4 million children being abused or neglected in the United States in 2012 and 1 in 4 children will experience some form on abuse, maltreatment or household dysfunction while growing up. (Campbell, 2015).Past research has shown a relationship between Adverse Childhood Experiences and substance abuse as an adult. Risk factors in the form abuse and neglect as child may cause a higher likelihood of substance abuse as an adult. Font and Jack (2015) also says that poor socioeconomic circumstances are associated with poor health conditions. Someone who scores with multiple adverse childhood experiences may report social and economic problems as an adult, such as financial hardship, homelessness and not making it through high school or an undergrad program (Font and Jack, 2015).

We have all heard the terms psychopath and sociopath, but how closely have we examined these words? Does the lay person even know what the true meaning of these words? Let us delve into the meaning of these words for a minute.

Society's view on psychopaths and sociopaths is highly influenced by movies,social media and even books. Often these two disorders are considered the same but in reality are completely different. Psychopaths and sociopath are integrated in society to a certain extent which leaves no true definition in a person's mind. They are very different but same in some similar aspects.

A psychopath is someone who is suffering from a chronic mental disorder with abnormal or violent social behavior. Much like a sociopath, who is someone with a personality disorder manifesting itself in extreme antisocial attitudes and behavior and a lack of conscience. A psychopath and a sociopath have many things in common about them. They also have a lot of differences as well. Both, psychopath and sociopath, are well-known disorders around the world.

“Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by an inability to form human attachment, aggressive narcissism, and antisocial behavior defined by a constellation of affective, interpersonal and behavioral characteristics, most of which society views as pejorative” [1]. Some of these characteristics include irresponsibility, grandiosity, cunning, deceitfulness, selective impulsivity, sexual promiscuity, lack of empathy, etc. People who are psychopathic display not only antisocial behavior but also emotional impairment such as the lack of guilt. They are able to prey on others using their charm, deceit, violence or any other methods that allow them to get what they want. A strong feature of most of the behavior

There are various physical and behavioral differences between a psychopath and an average person. In the book The Social Brain: Evolution and Pathology, doctors of psychiatry Hedda Ribbert and Wulf Schiefenhövel explain psychopath’s core features as a lack of empathy, persistent disregard for the feelings of others, reduced emotion, and have autonomic hyperresponsivity to sad and fearful

Psycopaths, and sociopaths have always been things that I'm interested in studying further. In my opinion, they are atypical humans who may sometimes perform egregious acts, or who may exist peacefully among others not socio-/psychopathic. I'm fascinated by the way they may not feel emotional ties to people or animals. It's just an interesting thing, to me, that one person can be cold, and calculating as a result of their environment, or for, seemingly, no reason at all.

The center for disease control (CDC) defines child abuse as any acts of commission or omission by any caregiver or parent that has potential to cause harm or threatens to harm the child (Merrick and Latzman, 2014). It is a serious public health problem as it affects a wide range of children around the world and consequently has adverse effects on the children. These effects have adverse consequences on the child in their childhood and also in their adulthood. One effect is drug abuse, where children who have been mistreated tend to have higher chances of engaging in drug abuse later their lives.

All things considered, Mistreatment and abuse of children can result in emotional effects, drug and alcohol use, and changes in the child’s behavior. According to the World Health Organization, just about 40 million children are victims of child abuse below the age of 15. Sometimes child abuse isn’t and instant effect on the child, the effects may start appearing later within the child’s life as they get older such as the using of the drugs, committing crimes and stuff like that.

Bross also said abuse is the leading cause of child deaths under five years of age. Sexual abuse most often occurs during the ages of 7-13 and affects 20% of girls and 5-10% of boys . Physical abuse rates are higher and affect 28% of children and emotional abuse is evident in up to 11% of children. Neglect of children emotional and physical has a rate of 25% . All of these types of abuse have some same signs displayed by the abused. Bed wetting, socially and emotionally withdrawn, and depression is some of the most common signs noticed in abused kids. These children display immediate signs and symptoms, behavioral issues, and physical injuries as well as long-term mental and physical issues. Some of these include failure to meet developmental milestones, and permanent self-destructive behavior (Mclean, 2013). Recognizing the signs and symptoms of an abused child is important to identifying a problem but this can also help in pinpointing possible harmful environments. There seems to be a strong correlation` between parents who use drug and/or alcohol and an abused child. In the United States, studies show that at least eight million children who have been abused have one or both parents with an addiction problem (Feidler et al, 2009). The risk of child abuse also increases three folds in households with an addiction problem. Many children growing up in these environments tend to have issues with malnutrition (Feidler et al, 2009). Another underlying problem about child

Often victims of child abuse suffer from posttraumatic disorder, which according to Mayo Clinic a nonprofit medical practice and medical research group posttraumatic disorder is defined as “A mental health condition that’s triggered by a terrifying event either experiencing or witnessing (Mayo clinic staff 2014). Victims who deal with psychological disorder not always commit violent crimes but instead victims tend to depend on drugs, alcohol to try to live their lives day by day, as time goes on these individuals tend to be classified as drug addicts or alcoholics. The fact that individuals depend on alcohol and drugs can lead them to ended up living in the streets and becoming what we know as the “homeless” often these individuals the lack of resources to buy drugs or alcohol lead them to commit property crimes and lead them to be processed into the criminal justice system as offenders. According to Exploring the Role of Child Abuse in Later Drug Abuse “As many as two-thirds of all people in treatment for drug abuse report that they were physically, sexually, or emotionally abuse, and witnessing or being threatened with violence or other abuse”. (Neil Swan 1998). As has been noted individuals who abuse substances and alcohol are not regular people

When you hear the words sociopath or psychopath you usually know right away that the person with that disorder is a killer and needs to be put away in jail. But have you ever wondered where that disorder comes from. Research shows that psychopath tends to be the result of genetics. Studies have shown that a psychopath usually has an underdeveloped brain that is responsible for impulse control and emotions. Sociopathy tends to come from a childhood trauma or some type of physical, emotional abuse, which is why sociopath is more of an environment disorder. When a sociopath commits a murder, it is usually a disorganized event or its rather spontaneous than planned. A sociopath can be really attached to a group or an individual which makes them dangerous because they have no regard for society or its rules. When it comes to the crimes of a psychopath they tend to be planned and they always have a contingency plan in place. Another major difference between a sociopath and a psychopath is that a psychopath is always cool and calm unlike a sociopath. This allows a psychopath to leave few clues when it comes to authorities investigating the crimes. When it comes to society psychopaths are more dangerous than sociopath. The reason for that is that psychopaths have no guilt when it comes to them committing their crimes. When committing a crime, they suffer no emotional repercussions and that allows them to continue with murdering people.