Thread:Jester of chaos/@comment-4002949-20181003033132/@comment-2059440-20181003034106

you're confusing psychosis with psychopathy, many sadistic individuals and calculated murderers who go to great lengths to cover their tracks (such a serial-killers) are psychopaths.. that is not psychotic.. it is completely different.

psychopaths are arguably the "worst of the worst" - not the psychotics.. psychotics can be the most dangerous, sure, but danger is not a heinous factor in itself.. psychopaths understand reality and manipulate it, they see others as playthings and they are the truly heinous ones.. even they don't auto-count but I assure you more psychopaths qualify as PE than psychotics by the very fact they know reality while psychotics don't.

also you are very wrong about dissociative, no one is sure what causes it but trauma is a large factor in many, many cases - you do know it is not a villain exclusive thing either? the Hulk is dissociative, as are so many other heroes.. it only really becomes Pure Evil territory when one or more alter-ego exhibits psychopathic behaviors : for example Green Goblin is BOTH Dissociative and a Psychopath.

these two conditions are still part of Mentally Ill you know and every character is unique in that field, judge characters by individual worth and not by what they are diagnosed with.. otherwise it just gets messy.

..also most extremely disturbed individuals, even in fiction, lash out in confusion, fear or delirium versus malice - like I said at the beginning the calculating murderers who stalk victims for days, plan out elaborate tortures and cover their tracks are not psychotic.. they are psychopaths.. with rare exceptions.. psychotics don't go around planning ways to harm others, they are usually in their own world, it's the sociopath / psychopath who has a thing for domination and abuse.