Ok, You are lucky if you see this but here is a free story on the differences between Sicopaths and sociopaths so yeah. You know when you think of psychopaths and sociopaths what comes up to your mind first? Do you think there are both just mental illnesses? They are basically the same thing. They are the same thing. Well, it's not as simple as you would think. I’m Mischel and I have always had this weird interest in crimes, just anything that more people would be scared of like stalkers or serial killers, etc. Technically psychopaths and sociopaths are both mental illnesses and both antisocial personality disorder and also a narcissist. But when you think about it they have different character traits and they show different ways of life. But also before you think these people chose to be this the technicality of it is psychopaths are born it's just due to genes you can’t control it you're just born with it. But Sociopaths are a little bit different they are made and what I mean by made is that when they were young they were hurt like for example a parent left them at a really young age or they were sexually assaulted or things a kid just shouldn’t go through but that isn’t just those two reasons it still needs more factors to the mental illness to become a mental illness.
This girl named Aileen Wuornos was diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder and more specifically a psychopath so she had to go to therapy and take medication. But she just thought she didn’t need it anymore, she thought it was pointless. She started making a plan to rob a bank and kill certain people who harmed her in the past. The day came that she planned to do this and with her was a friend she made who also had an antisocial personality disorder but a sociopath (which is made) so that had different perspectives of the situation but the same conclusion. She ended up killing all the people she planned on but her friend was a little more carefree about the whole thing. The woman is cornered with no place to go. Aileen's friend got away. So her friend lived a life with tricking people oh and Aileen managed to getaway. And moved on to the next till the one day she got caught and went to jail for a life sentence. One heck of a story huh.
Well what I know is that sociopaths are more anti-social and they don’t have a care for anything and never feel guilty or respect things. But as for psychopaths pretend to care and maintain a normal life and cover their criminal behavior. Have fake relationships. ( All on a chart ) The article they give you is a table on sociopaths and psychopaths and their character traits. The text also cites in a paragraph a psychologist says “Martens notes that the more a psychopath feels socially isolated, sad, and alone, the higher his or her risk for violence and impulsive and/or reckless behavior.” This shows how easily something could happen and how a psychopath's mind kinda works. An Important word a lot of people show know is Antisocial personality disorder which is a disorder that brings psychopaths and sociopaths in the same category you could say but they really are different when It comes to their way of life but there are quite a few similarities. Some really well-known psychopaths are Richard Ramirez and Aileen Wuornos. And some well-known sociopaths are Diane Downs and Jack Henry Abbott and not every sociopath is a killer. Also, men serial killers outnumber women killers but the ratio for women to men sociopaths is 1 to 3. The ratio of women to men in psychopaths is 0.3–0.7% women and 1% men.
Most people would agree that psychopaths and sociopaths are more on the uncommon side which is true in moderation but psychopaths are made up of 1% of the population which is still a lot because your world's population is 7.9 billion people. In fact, sociopaths also make up another 1% of the population. So by the end of today, you’ll know you have probably learned something new and interesting about psychopaths and sociopaths and have a different perspective right? And I’ll leave you with that in mind.