What is your understanding of the word 'Psycho'?
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My first thought is a crazy person but I know that the real meaning is short for psychopath, someone who has no reasoning between right and wrong.
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He could be a psychopath.  Sounds like he has no empathy for anyone.  Some psycho’s get off on things like that.  I have read a report that many successful people are psychopaths.  They are good at manipulating others because they are not under the same moral constraints that others are under.  Psychopathology can have many forms, not just being a serial killer.  And no, I didn't stay at a Holiday Inn last night.
417646
yes\ncute,but psycho,\nthings even out\n\nmust be your favorite..
440841
They say it's a fine line between the two. I think sanity is defined by society, or other people in our circle, as acting according to a norm. Insanity is deviating extremely from the norm. We may all be judged by our peers as sane or acting insane, but ultimately it is a medical (psychiatric) judgment of insanity that qualifies someone as insane. And for some, insanity can come and go quite quickly, making even that individual wonder at his own sanity.
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Depends on your version of crazy.  Crazy to me is the new normal.  If you mean crazy as in mentally ill, then a LOT.  If you mean crazy as in just odd, just look around you and you will have your answer.  I know thats crass but if you think about it, its the truth.
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Forensic Psychiatry is related to insanity. The word "insanity" does not connote any definite medical entity, but is solely a legal and sociological concept. Accordingly, the term "insane" is used to designate any member of the community who is unable on account of mental disease to look after himself and manage his own affairs, or is dangerous to himself or others. The law assumes that a person who is insane is not resposible for his actions, and therefore, if such insane person commits a crime he is not punished for it. More and more attention is nowadays being given to mental aspects of crime but the practice of different criminal courts varies considerably.\nPlease see the webpage for more details on Forensic Psychiatry.
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It's amazing that although this question is posted in the Medicine section, there is no medical-informed answer before (and including) this one!\n\nLater addition:\nOK, the problem is that the concept of "madness", "mental illness" or "insanity", is too wide and complex to deserve a unique definition.\nA simpler scenario is the legal one (taken from the omnipresent Wikipedia), where a person is defined "insane" when presents inability to either determine the difference between "right" and "wrong" (or, in a more practical or direct sense, "legal" and "illegal") or understand the consequences of one's own actions.
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generally yes. however only 2% of people with mental illnesses are violent.. stop watching all those stupid hollywood movies..\n\nalso psychopath is not an appropriate word.. psychosis is a symptom.. not an illness...\n\na personality disorder such as anti-social generally are the more appropriate diagnosis..\n\nnote to question asker.. dr. dee doesnt have the slightest fricking clue what he is talking about.. geez.. quite frankly id call his post a textbook example of "projection".. if you want to learn something about psychology.. see what he says if he returns and reads this paragraph.. ;)\n\nas to your hypothetical.. many serial killers prior to being caught were very well known and liked members of society.. chances are if you knew a serial killer you would have no idea he was in fact one... ted bundy for example was a very charming gentleman.. nobody would have guessed.\n\n\n>>As to bipolar.. aka manic-depressive.. some are known to be violent at times, when they are, it is impulsive. For example... If a person with bipolar attacks or kills somebody its not well planned and would be obvious to authorties who was responsible for it. Because of the nature of bipolar disorder... the person would eventually "come back to reality". Now as to psychopaths who are "serial killers"... by the time somebody had claimed enough victems to be labeled as such, would be experienced and "rational" enough to know not to behave in a way which would indicate their guilt for murder or any other crime. Many people who have a tendancy towards psychosis are very intelligent people, ironically.\n\nlizzie borden is an example of "impulsive".. as I already mentioned.. she killed her parents with an axe.. she wasnt a serial killer.. and from my understanding of the story.. they probably deserved it..\n\nby the way.. Ms. Borden was found "not guilty" of those murders... does it mean she was innocent?.. probably not (think O.J.).. but legally she was...
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yo, fool...u need some mental help....ASAPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!! What a PSYCHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
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Hardly, it's slang. And if you need to really need to know, I won't go into details here. Look it up in the following link.
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If you meant PSYCHOTROPIC, it is a chemical/drug which alters perception, emotion, and behavior. Thanks for the question.
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When someone goes Crazy...He or she momentarily looses control of mind and emotion. Being crazy is reversible, via comfort of words and creation of a relaxed environment. Being crazy might also be the spontaneous expression of repressed feelings eg. anger. There are more drastic forms of craziness this occurs when the central nervous system is tampered with, a neurone compromised...people with such conditions are called neurotics.
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I think the definition of insane is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.  You're probably not as different as you think you are, we're all pretty much the same down deep.  We just express things differently.
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Respective to your question's sequence, sanity and insanity.
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Why does rhyme have an H ?Why does psycho have a P ?It's just all so confusing.
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This is a very interesting question (I wrote a paper on it for my Abnormal Psychology class). If you look in the DSM IV, revised, the term psychopath is no longer used. It was discarded in favor of sociopath, and now it is called Anti-Social Personality Disorder. People with this disorder are reckless (they care little about their own safety or that of others, spend too much money, gamble too much, have unprotected sex even when they know they are infected, and so on). They also see everyone around them as fools and suckers, who are there expressly to be used and abused. They love lying and cheat at everything. They are extremely impulsive and lack long term goals or a life plan. They are insensitive to the suffering of others, and often are sadistic. In short, they are criminals, and our prisons are stuffed with them.\nSince they crave adventure and new stimulation, they find it very difficut to work or to live in the same place for very long. They also have a very high incidence of drug abuse and alcoholism.\nPsychopaths, on the other hand, like to adopt a false identity, a mask that hides their true nature. The BTK killer in Kansas was a prominent member of his church and cultivated the persona of a really decent guy. John Wayne Gacy also was known in the community (he worked as a clown and killed lots of boys). Ed Gein (look him up on the web - his crimes were unbelievable) lived in the same place all his life, and was rather shy and reticent. Countess Erzbet Bathory was an aristocrat in Hungary who kidnapped girls and bled them into a tub so she could bathe in their blood. (It was good for her complexion, so she said.) Gilles de Rais was a nobleman and a war hero in the 100 Year's War. When the war ended he kidnapped lots of boys and disembowelled them for his sexual satisfaction.\nBoth these types are downright scary, and there are a lot of them: they constitute some 4% of the population (3% men and 1% of women). In our population of 280 million, that's 11,200,000 people! And that's just in the USA.
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Are you asking me a valid question here, or are you just trying to get inside my head?\nMaybe you should consider also PURSUing a spelling class or two. Sorry, don't mean to be offensive. We're all psychologists, you know. I'm psychosomatic psychopath.