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by Twisted Thoughts is not MIA anymore. on October 30th, 2007
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by Twhupfold on October 30th, 2007
I think in the strictest sense, 'psychotic' is now referred to as 'sociopathic' due to more information about the condition.
One cannot 'become' sociopathic (psychotic), except perhaps through brain damage. The condition is typically defined by a complete incapability for social behaviour - a slight form of solipsism is probably a major form that this takes; the sociopath does not care what other people think or feel.
Actually being violent isn't so much a part of the condition (though that's typically what people think), although since in most cases a sociopath (psychotic person) can be quite violent, because they rarely have any compassion for other people, and will do things without realising the harm it can cause, or will deliberately cause harm to get something they want because they don't appreciate that others feel pain, etc.
by Writer on October 30th, 2007
One who has lost touch with reality. There are very few cases and most are people looking for attention, claiming they have it when they dont, or they are so convinced that they do, they have exhibited some of the symptoms. Wikipedia it. Psychosis.
by jsgurl on October 22nd, 2009
Some terms seem to be confused here. Psychotic has to do with psychosis such as those with schizophrenia. Psychopathic is not called APD.
by X-Agony-X on July 2nd, 2010
I don't believe one can truly be defined as Psychotic, as previously stated by most societal standards we consider someone who is psychotic to have lost touch with reality. But by that definition we would all be psychotic because we don't all see the same thing. We all perceive the things around us or "reality" in a different way. For example if two individuals were to look at a girl and one said"she is beautiful." Because of our ability to perceive the reality around us it although may be the same response because of this distortion of what we see or our thoughts projected towards what we sense the other individual could say"She is ugly what are you talking about?" this means that we all sense and react to things quite differently for this reason just because someone might sense or react to something differently does not make them psychotic it just makes their perceptions different from either your own or the majority of society.
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thorough answer. thanks for sharing :)
by Twisted Thoughts is not MIA anymore. on October 30th, 2007
Absolutely correct. Psychopathic is the old term used for what is now known as sociopathic, or anti-social personality disorder.
by AntigoneRising on October 30th, 2007