Two psychopaths met at a gas station.
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A psychopath in everyday life is called a person with violent, inadequate and unpredictable behavior, from which everyone around feels bad. This is a man with a very difficult, bad character, one might say — a wild man without culture, a man poorly educated and not amenable to re-education.
As a rule, in the case of a psychopath, we are talking about obvious, gu.e.x character accentuations. If a person’s behavior goes beyond the norm quite a bit, they talk about accentuation of character. A psychopath is already seriously going beyond, here you can talk about gu.e.h accentuations, but this is not yet a mental illness. The next step after the psychopath is psychopathy (a personality disorder), this is already the field of psychiatry.
Once again, a psychopath is a mundane concept and should not be confused with psychopathy: a psychiatric term for a specific personality disorder.
Unlike a neurotic who is always bad, a psychopath may not be bad with himself. Bad for those around him.
Unlike a bully who causes trouble to others, but can control himself, a psychopath does not control himself — he cannot.
A bully is someone who violates public order and deliberately acts to the detriment of the interests of others. Small children can also be considered hooligans, since they intend to do only what they want, and they are not at all interested in what is possible, what is not, and what others need.
Unlike an ill-mannered person who causes trouble to others, but can be trained and educated, a psychopath cannot be trained and educated. At the same time, the hypothesis always remains that this is still the result of poor upbringing.
Analogy: There are two stages in puppy training. The first, general stage of training makes the puppy susceptible to serious specialized training, and if the first stage is skipped in childhood, such a puppy is no longer trained. It seems that the psychopath in childhood missed the stage of primary education.
How can you calm a psychopath, who can influence him? “The best influence on a psychopath is a team of orderlies from a psychiatric ward or a police officer on duty. The recommendation to everyone else is, if possible, it is better not to mess with psychopaths, look for an opportunity to live away from them. Even if they are relatives.
Terminological notes
Recently, there has been a tendency to call a psychopath a sociopath. It must be admitted that “sociopath” more accurately reflects the situation of ignoring social norms and at the same time sounds more accurate, politically correct. It seems that a sociopath is a psychopath in a calm state, and a psychopath is a sociopath in a violent stage. Nevertheless, in a situation where the concept of «psychopath» has in fact turned into an everyday insult, the use of the wording «sociopath» to describe the syndrome of psychopathic (in the former scope of the concept) behavior seems to be quite successful.