• ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 months ago

      I can try to find. The 4% is the population rate of being without empathy. So that would cover sociopathy, psychopathy, and narcissistic personality disorder. It’s still damaging and terrifying.

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          2 months ago

          I think it’s just “antisocial” traits. I also think it might have been updated to exclude sociopathy, but I read books about this a long time ago, so not sure. Psychopaths are Machiavellian, have no empathy, and are narcissistic, iirc. It’s called the dark triad. Narcissists still experience anxiety, so they are different that way. Borderline folks often feel bad about themselves rather than having a grandiose sense of self, and I think they only have periods of lack of empathy during episodes. Really, I’m not sure borderline folks count in the 4%. I’m also not sure sociopaths and psychopaths are still classified separately in DSM.

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            i have to admit i was baiting you because i knew psychopathy isn’t a diagnosable condition in (ok, now just as far as i know) any version of the DSM. but then i read the wikipedia entry on psychopathy.

            it turns out, even though it’s not diagnosable as such, there are evaluation criteria for it so it sort of sits in this weird middleground.

            anyway, i think we should just treat people as people and not like a diagnosis. i don’t want people to treat me like “depressed commie” or “anxious commie” (not conditions i have diagnosed, just using examples). i want to be treated as a whole person. writing off people who hit certain evaluation criteria as “just a psychopath” is pretty shitty.