A "sociopath" isn't real. It's a term people made up but it's not a real thing. You can have ASPD yeah that's real but a sociopath is FALSE Change my mind ☕???
Sociopath = aspd Aspd ≠ sociopath You will not find sociopath or psychopath in the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders Which is the book that list any and all mental illnesses, which means a doctor won't dianose you as a sociopath. It's a term people made up and from medial standpoint its not real.
We’ve talked a lot about sociopaths/sociopathy in my psychology classes lately because of the whole Jake Paul thing lately lmao so here’s my breakdown of it; It’s actually not a made up term, it’s simply used instead of “secondary psychopathy” (which is what it is referred to professionally speaking) since using the s.p. term would cause people to assume it’s the same as primary psychopathy. Sociopathy/Secondary psychopathy goes hand in hand with ASPD because if the individual is diagnosed, whether they be high or low functioning, they will receive that as their diagnosis. However, that does not mean sociopathy/s.p. isn’t real. If it weren’t real, primary psychopathy wouldn’t be real either, which isn’t the case. They’re more so subsets of disorders in a way.
Well yeah, but people can be labeled as secondary psychopaths/sociopaths professionally speaking, and helped for their sociopathic tendencies since tendencies don’t always equal an entire disorder yet. It just isn’t passed as it’s own diagnosis due to it overlapping with too many other disorders.
That's the entire point of this conversation you cannot be clinically diagnosed as a sociopath/psychopath, you can't because it's not a legitimate medical term like it's not a by the book mental illness
You can be diagnosed with psychopathy. That's what primary psychopathy is. "Sociopathy" is the layman's term for secondary psychopathy.