7/26/2023 0 Comments My eyes are stapled open wideNow look at a giant tree, the canopies shadow is all just a blurred silhouette) The shadow of the top is pretty clean, You can see the individual leaves. Shadow edge blurring of not quite point source lighting such as the sun (look at the shadow of a small tree, the shadow of the base has a very clean edge. is it picture of something with the camera really close, Or is it a picture with the camera very far away but zoomed in a shit load) Things we take for granted such as shadows, motion blur, expectation that faces are convex not concave, parallax of known objects (E.g. Which is the difference is the distance seen with each eye, This is very common in people with schizophrenia and shows us that something deeper inside the brain is not using visual cues properly. I would tend to agree with this use if it weren't for the aspect of labeling a person and in that the media portrayal of it somehow makes the term psychopath more threatening to society than sociopath when it seems to me to be the reverse.Ī big part of it has to do with something called Binocular Disparity. For the rest of the population, psychopath and sociopath have a use that could be argued as being somewhat justifiable since the two terms are to help delineate acceptable an unacceptable behavior. Of course, this frame of thinking is primarily within the psychological community and, to an extent, the medical community as well. This helps prevent the stigmatization of having a mental illness wound the identity of the individual with it as they go through rehabilitation or disorder management. Thus, a person having been diagnosed with schizophrenia isn't schizophrenic, but is referred to as a person with schizophrenia. The other reason for the change was because the field of therapy, while it finds the diagnosis of disorders helpful, it realized that the labeling of a person is not. Since sociopathy and psychopathy both contain the root word 'pathy,' or 'disease,' and really it's not a disease but rather a disorder, the terms are not an accurate description for what's going on. My take on that is you're more or less correct, although the going consensus for those in the field is to only use antisocial personality disorder. I said as much to one of my teachers once and didn't get the straightest of answers. The phonetic similarity between psychotic and psychopath seems to cause confusion in many people, you're totally not the only one. The diagnosis of schizophrenia falls in this category, as well as a few others. The current term, unless it was changed again in the new DSM-V, is antisocial personality disorder.īeing psychotic, or perhaps more accurately, being a person with psychotic tendencies, means at times they find it hard to distinguish truth and reality from their delusions. As psychology has evolved, these terms fell into disuse as the symptoms became more refined (probably as technology in this area grew in sophistication, they became less based on the behavioral aspects in order to more broadly, and perhaps more accurately, diagnose people) and the old terms were discarded as they fell prey to media sensationalism. The former two are more or less forms of antisocial personality disorders whereas the latter is a mental disorder.įrom what I understand, psychopath and sociopath are vocabulary terms that essentially refer to the same disorder. It appears that the line between psychopathy and sociopathy is not clearly drawn, whereas psychosis is a branch of its own (e.g. I treated psychotic and psychopathic as synonymous terms, when they are not. After some quick googling, it appears that I am indeed wrong. Most people are neither in psychiatry's eyes.ĮDIT: Albeit a bit harsh, human2096 is actually right. A person who breaks the rules for the hell of it and gives no fucks is a sociopath. Someone who actively sees and hears things that are not there or believes that they actually are god is a psychopath. A sociopath would be a more accurate term for weird people, but even that is hardly true. People like to throw it around and call anybody who is weird a psychopath, but most people are not. In laymen's terms, it is the inability to distinguish between reality and fantasy.
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