Thread:Jester of chaos/@comment-24859393-20180717222258/@comment-2059440-20180717231204

Beholder, Psychotic makes it very clear what the difference is - ALL Psychotics are Mentally Ill but they MUST be the MOST EXTREME examples of such.. you don't just use it for any Mentally Ill individual.

it is for people who have very little understanding of reality, like Joker - who laughs even when being tortured and often does things for the sheer "fun" of it.. unpredictable, unable to be understood and live on their own whims.

they are the exact opposite of psychopaths or other mentally ill in that they will rarely bother covering up their crimes as they don't care.. serial-killers, psychopaths and many other mentally ill go to great lengths to cover up their crimes.. psychotic don't.

they will leave behind dead bodies, leave easy to follow clues etc etc.. they don't give a crap if they are caught.. they don't even understand half the time that they are truly wrong.. or they are so utterly obsessed with doing "evil" they don't care if they are imprisoned or killed.

they are utterly insane.. not all mentally ill are insane.. insanity means you have little to no control over your actions or suffer extreme instabilities.. way more than your average "mentally ill".

they are suffering psychosis, schizotypical and/or dissociative at minimum.

Riddler is mentally ill, as is Clock King and many other Batman villains - they are NOT psychotics because they understand reality and manipulate it despite their conditions.

Caligula, Leatherface, Joker, Ventriloquist and Baby Face are psychotics because they don't understand reality and are wildly unpredictable.