• commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    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.