Oh Cracked, you disappoint me so!

[chironcentaur]

Cracked does not usually piss me off, so I suppose it was due. Today it has this article, in which some dumbass is wagging a finger at Hollywood for the way it portrays mental illness (which, admittedly, is something that should be done) and how even a simple Google search would prove their long standing notions wrong, and in the process shows us

Comments

[dubhlainn]

Huh, I had always heard that the difference between the two could be boiled down to Psychopath - believes they are better and is therefore out to get everyone else, Sociopath - believes they are worthless and therefore believes everyone is out to get them.

But even a cursory google search, like the OP suggested, shows me that I was wrong and most clinicians do not see a major difference between the two terms.

[chironcentaur]

Yeah, its more like lacking an ability to empathize and thus other people's feelings don't matter much. Although that is an oversimplification. That's a personality disorder I find fascinating and I do a lot of reading on it. :-)

The best I can figure is that people make the mistake because "psychopath" contains "psycho" so they assume that means crazy. People commenting on that article were able to point out other errors on the psychopath section, but no one has yet pointed out it doesn't mean crazy. But still, there is a ton of readily available information to tell you that's not true. And if you're going to be writing an article on how wrong everyone else is, you'd think you would want to make sure you got all your facts right first.

[sephatta]

"You get the pistols, and I'll get the pecos..."

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