Thread:General MGD 109/@comment-24819071-20140419213002/@comment-24819071-20140419222341

Another thing I'd like to add, I really don't like having everyone labelled as a psychopath or a sociopath (the two are NOT the same thing, btw). Both terms are outdated, vague and virtually every villain can be labelled as such because of the broad definitions that people ascribe to them (usually aren't accurate). A sociopath is simply laymens term for someone who is afflicted with antisocial personality disorder. A psychopath is not a diagnosable personality disorder, rather it is a cluster of traits from antisocial, narcissistic and borderline personality disorders. You can be a borderline psychopath, or you can be a narcissistic psychopath, or an antisocial psychopath. Psychopathy has subtypes, at least, that is what the evidence in most recent research indicates - the subtyes are borderline, narcissistic, and antisocial. There used to be the idea that psychopathy was split into primary and secondary, with those suffering from NPD or AsPD as primary psychopaths, while those with BPD as secondary psychopaths.