Psycho!

NipNip

I've become increasingly aware of the overuse, incorrect use, ignorant use, uninformed use, idiocy and misinterpretation around the words 'psychotic' and the slang 'psycho'.

Psychosis is a severe mental illness, afflicting a not miniscule percentage of the population.

Psychosis is associated with illnesses that affect the brain (for example, schizophrenia). People affected by psychosis can experience delusions, hallucinations and confused thinking. Medication and community support can relieve, or even eliminate, psychotic symptoms.

Approximately three in 100 people will experience a psychotic episode at some point in their life. Some people only experience a few episodes of psychosis or a brief episode that lasts for a few days or weeks. Others will experience symptoms more frequently, in association with a longer-term illness such as schizophrenia. The first episode of psychosis usually occurs in a person’s late teens or early 20s.

From http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Psychosis_explained

There seems to be a misunderstanding or misinterpretation that psychosis refers to the personality or behaviour of some people. It doesn't. It is a pretty scary symptom for anyone who suffers from it. It is an insult to people who have suffered from psychotic symptoms, to associate them with people who behave in a nasty or mean fashion. There's a difference between a person's character and behaviour and a symptom of a mental illness.

It's alarming also to note that some posters here refer to someone who has ideas with which the poster does not agree as being 'psycho' or 'psychotic'.

Look - just think before you use the word - ok?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdczRPQkwMY

wazky

You would want to be consulting a dictionary before you open your mouth to keep some people happy.

Pwindedd

This is the "retarded" thread all over again. People use words colloquially -get over it.

neamhspleachi

Thanks for the heads-up OP

Hande hoche!

Not short hand for psychopathic?

Butterface

I don't hear psycho being thrown around or misused as often as "retarded" or "gay" tbh..

LaHaine

groupie, cocaine, crazy

deise08

I just call everybody nuts!

neamhspleachi

LaHaine wrote: »

groupie, cocaine, crazy

Morning Serge

hardCopy

Schizo is totally and inappropriately overused also. See multiple personality disorder.

Slicemeister

neamhspleachi wrote: »

Thanks for the headwreck OP

FYP.

Turtyturd

It's no Demolition Man.

Muise...

Overheard in a chipper: "don't go near her - she's a cyclepath."

Jonny Blaze

AnonoBoy

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(Doesn't read threads)

corner of hells

I hear you OP , I particularly dislike the term slapper , so often used to describe young ladies.

A slapper is two strips of canvas down together , used in cattle stockyards , to move the cattle on.

In my local , when I were a lad , there were young ladies who were affectionately known as Easy A , Easy B and Easy C. If it was noticed you were paying any attention to either of them , you were described as " learning the alphabet ".

Gongoozler

Been meaning to look up the difference between a psychopath and a sociopath. Perhaps this will remind me to do it when I'm next on my computer.

I do like to use gay, retarded and cnut willy nilly though, and shall continue to do so.

pablomakaveli

Gongoozler wrote: »

Been meaning to look up the difference between a psychopath and a sociopath. Perhaps this will remind me to do it when I'm next on my computer.

I do like to use gay, retarded and cnut willy nilly though, and shall continue to do so.

Here you go. Always thought they were interchangeable but evidently not.

brembo26

NipNip wrote: »

I've become increasingly aware of the overuse, incorrect use, ignorant use, uninformed use, idiocy and misinterpretation around the words 'psychotic' and the slang 'psycho'.

Psychosis is a severe mental illness, afflicting a not miniscule percentage of the population.



From http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Psychosis_explained

There seems to be a misunderstanding or misinterpretation that psychosis refers to the personality or behaviour of some people. It doesn't. It is a pretty scary symptom for anyone who suffers from it. It is an insult to people who have suffered from psychotic symptoms, to associate them with people who behave in a nasty or mean fashion. There's a difference between a person's character and behaviour and a symptom of a mental illness.

It's alarming also to note that some posters here refer to someone who has ideas with which the poster does not agree as being 'psycho' or 'psychotic'.

Look - just think before you use the word - ok?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdczRPQkwMY

Hmm... mmm... and how does this make you feel OP?

anncoates

Qu'est-ce que c'est?






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Gongoozler

Gongoozler wrote: »

Been meaning to look up the difference between a psychopath and a sociopath. Perhaps this will remind me to do it when I'm next on my computer.

I do like to use gay, retarded and cnut willy nilly though, and shall continue to do so.

Now I may be entirely wrong. That happened once before.

But I think you're born a psychopath, but you become a sociopath due to stuff and things happening in your life.

I think.

I should probably look that up though.

anncoates

Why did the pavement need psychiatric treatment?

They turned it in a cyclepath.

Fratton Fred

NipNip wrote: »

I've become increasingly aware of the overuse, incorrect use, ignorant use, uninformed use, idiocy and misinterpretation around the words 'psychotic' and the slang 'psycho'.

Psychosis is a severe mental illness, afflicting a not miniscule percentage of the population.



From http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Psychosis_explained

There seems to be a misunderstanding or misinterpretation that psychosis refers to the personality or behaviour of some people. It doesn't. It is a pretty scary symptom for anyone who suffers from it. It is an insult to people who have suffered from psychotic symptoms, to associate them with people who behave in a nasty or mean fashion. There's a difference between a person's character and behaviour and a symptom of a mental illness.

It's alarming also to note that some posters here refer to someone who has ideas with which the poster does not agree as being 'psycho' or 'psychotic'.

Look - just think before you use the word - ok?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdczRPQkwMY

Jesus op, that's ****ing mental.

neamhspleachi

Characteristics of a sociopath are as follows:

1. Sociopaths are very charming.
2. Sociopaths can be extremely manipulative and will try to con you whenever possible.
3. Sociopaths feel that they are entitled to everything.
4. Sociopaths will lie continuously to get what they want.
They can even sometimes manipulate a lie detector.
5. Sociopaths have no remorse, shame or guilt.
6. Sociopaths will show love and happiness only when it serves their purpose.
None of the feelings are genuine.
7. Sociopaths have no room for love in their life.
8. Sociopaths need to have excitement in their lives or live on the edge.
9. Sociopaths have lack of empathy when their victims suffer pain that they have caused.
10. Sociopaths believe that they are all mightier than tho, there is no concern on how their behavior impacts others.
11. Sociopaths usually have a long history of juvenile delinquency as well as behavior problems.
12. Sociopaths will never take blame for anything they have done to anyone no matter if it is family or friend.
13. Sociopaths have many sexual partners and tend to act out many sexual acts.
14. Sociopaths rarely stay in one place for a long time (home/work).
15. Sociopaths will change themselves if they know it will keep them from being found out.

Characteristics of a psychopath are as follows:

1. Psychopaths use superficial charm to lure their victims.
2. Psychopaths are extremely self-centered.
3. Psychopaths must always do something to keep themselves from boredom.
4. Psychopaths are very deceptive and tend to lie continuously.
5. Psychopaths show no remorse of guilt towards their victims.
6. Psychopaths are very predatory and usually will live off other people.
7. Psychopaths have many sexual partners in their lifetime.
8. Psychopaths are very impulsive with their lifestyle.
9. Psychopaths are always blaming other people for their actions.
10. Psychopaths never have a realistic view of their lives (king of the world or from another planet)
11. Psychopaths always want psychological gratification in sexual and criminal activities.
12. Psychopaths tend to try suicide, rarely succeeding.

Muise...

anncoates wrote: »

Qu'est-ce que c'est?






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:eek:

run run run run run away!

folbotcar

The problem OP is that when people use the word psycho. They're not referring to people with psychosis but to people who demonstrate erratic or violent behavior. We've all met people like that.

The word psychopath is also used in the same context but is also wrong as many psychopaths are high functioning often very charming and successful people. It is not a mental illness. I know one in particular who is a real piece of work well on his way to getting rich but leaving a lot of bodies in his wake, metaphorically speaking.

The truth is that most of us know or met a psychopath without knowing it. You might even be one and not know.

neamhspleachi

Most captains of industry etc., have psychopathic tendencies

GalwayGuy2

The word psychopath is also used in the same context but is also wrong as many psychopaths are high functioning often very charming and successful people. It is not a mental illness. I know one in particular who is a real piece of work well on his way to getting rich but leaving a lot of bodies in his wake, metaphorically speaking.

The truth is that most of us know or met a psychopath without knowing it. You might even be one and not know.

Eh, there's a big difference between rationalizing/dissociating yourself and being a genuine psychopath.

Also, those checklists of a psychopath are kind of dodgy. I remember reading once that lighting fires were a sign of a psychopath :rolleyes:

corner of hells

folbotcar wrote: »

The problem OP is that when people use the word psycho. They're not referring to people with psychosis but to people who demonstrate erratic or violent behavior. We've all met people like that.

The word psychopath is also used in the same context but is also wrong as many psychopaths are high functioning often very charming and successful people. It is not a mental illness. I know one in particular who is a real piece of work well on his way to getting rich but leaving a lot of bodies in his wake, metaphorically speaking.

The truth is that most of us know or met a psychopath without knowing it. You might even be one and not know.

How do you know that man you talk about is diagnosed as a psychopath ?

pablomakaveli

neamhspleachi wrote: »

Most captains of industry etc., have psychopathic tendencies

As do politicians.

Frito

This deviates a little from the OP (sorry) but I found it interesting

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23431793

It's research on psychopathy and empathy - a group of inmates who fit the criteria had the ability to switch empathy on/off.

My understanding of psychopathy is rudimentary, but it does strike me as oxymoronic that psychopaths simultaneously lack empathy and can be charming and charismatic (which would suggest the ability to view their behaviour from the perspective of another - ergo empathy?). I could be wrong there of course and open to correction.

Larianne

Gongoozler wrote: »

Been meaning to look up the difference between a psychopath and a sociopath. Perhaps this will remind me to do it when I'm next on my computer.

I do like to use gay, retarded and cnut willy nilly though, and shall continue to do so.

Not used often enough!

Miprocin

pablomakaveli wrote: »

Here you go. Always thought they were interchangeable but evidently not.

Excellent article, thank you for posting. I was unsure of the distinction myself for a long time.

NipNip

Psycho and psychotic are used interchangeably in posts here. Just do a wee search of the words on boards and you'll see what I'm referring to. Perhaps it is the fact that posters quite simply don't know the difference between psychotic and psychopathic? I'm in the camp of pc gone stupid. Mental illness is the unexplored frontier of grossly politically incorrect references however.

DEFTLEFTHAND

prizefighter

Frito wrote: »

This deviates a little from the OP (sorry) but I found it interesting

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23431793

It's research on psychopathy and empathy - a group of inmates who fit the criteria had the ability to switch empathy on/off.

My understanding of psychopathy is rudimentary, but it does strike me as oxymoronic that psychopaths simultaneously lack empathy and can be charming and charismatic (which would suggest the ability to view their behaviour from the perspective of another - ergo empathy?). I could be wrong there of course and open to correction.

I've read a bit on the subject of psychopathy and it would seem that any charm or charisma is a learned behaviour based on previous interactions. Psychopaths through trial and error manifest personality types to best aid them in a situation. They do not have emotions as we know them and are not able to empathise due to the fact that empathy requires attempting to feel how someone else is feeling. Psychopaths have badly formed amygdala and this in turn supports their lack of emotion and fear.
Sociopaths have no emotion or remorse but as far as I know do feel fear and have been shown to be reactive to pain based fear stimulus tests while psychopaths do not register fear in a conventional sense.

NipNip

NipNip wrote: »

Psycho and psychotic are used interchangeably in posts here. Just do a wee search of the words on boards and you'll see what I'm referring to. Perhaps it is the fact that posters quite simply don't know the difference between psychotic and psychopathic? I'm in the camp of pc gone stupid. Mental illness is the unexplored frontier of grossly politically incorrect references however.

Most people tend to be of the "PC gone mad" opinion, until it's something they care about.

sunflower27

it is as bad as using the word 'retarded'. Whenever I hear someone say it, I just think they are ignorant and stupid.

DEFTLEFTHAND

sunflower27 wrote: »

it is as bad as using the word 'retarded'. Whenever I hear someone say it, I just think they are ignorant and stupid.

A medical term though isn't it? Libtarded might describe the people trying to scratch it from history. :pac:

Yo'll find other phrases like Lunatic still used in the Common Law, there's plenty of other terms in the system that the average person might raise an eye to also.

Arthur Beesley

NipNip wrote: »

I've become increasingly aware of the overuse, incorrect use, ignorant use, uninformed use, idiocy and misinterpretation around the words 'psychotic' and the slang 'psycho'.

Psychosis is a severe mental illness, afflicting a not miniscule percentage of the population.



From http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Psychosis_explained

There seems to be a misunderstanding or misinterpretation that psychosis refers to the personality or behaviour of some people. It doesn't. It is a pretty scary symptom for anyone who suffers from it. It is an insult to people who have suffered from psychotic symptoms, to associate them with people who behave in a nasty or mean fashion. There's a difference between a person's character and behaviour and a symptom of a mental illness.

It's alarming also to note that some posters here refer to someone who has ideas with which the poster does not agree as being 'psycho' or 'psychotic'.

Look - just think before you use the word - ok?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdczRPQkwMY

Noted. Thanks OP. Hope that isn't a racist username.

NipNip

Arthur Beesley wrote: »

Noted. Thanks OP. Hope that isn't a racist username.

Arthur Beesley

NipNip wrote: »

What are you confused about?

Wabbit Ears

Ive never used Physco as in Psychosis, no one does so the "misunderstanding or misinterpretation" is only on the part of the OP.

Retard, Tardo, Fcuking mentaller, Spastic, Spasticated, These are all really great words to use casually, Its a sad sorry world we live in where such descriptive terms are PC shunned.

GalwayGuy2

Deleted User wrote: »

Most people tend to be of the "PC gone mad" opinion, until it's something they care about.

I'm a bit confused on this? It could mean that people are PC as long as it doesn't affect them, or people think pc is stupid until it does affect them.


ie, 'We should ban every word...but I use the word gay and I'm not a homophobe...'

or

'Ar' sure there's nothin' wrong with a bit of un-pc behaviour. Retard, psycho, make me a sandwich...but my brother in law came out as gay. Da fuk are you slagging the queers for, yas spastic!'

NipNip

Wabbit Ears wrote: »

Ive never used Physco as in Psychosis, no one does so the "misunderstanding or misinterpretation" is only on the part of the OP.

Retard, Tardo, Fcuking mentaller, Spastic, Spasticated, These are all really great words to use casually, Its a sad sorry world we live in where such descriptive terms are PC shunned.

Do a search for the word psychotic on here. You'll find threads about women wanting to get pregnant being described as psychotic, an irritating landlady, being described as psychotic, even a magpie appears to have some symptoms...... :cool:

NipNip

GalwayGuy2 wrote: »

I'm a bit confused on this? It could mean that people are PC as long as it doesn't affect them, or people think pc is stupid until it does affect them.


ie, 'We should ban every word...but I use the word gay and I'm not a homophobe...'

What are you on about?

NipNip

Arthur Beesley wrote: »

What are you confused about?

What was your reference to my username being racist all about? :rolleyes:

hardCopy

NipNip wrote: »

What was your reference to my username being racist all about? :rolleyes:

Nip is a dated term for japanese people, similar to Jap.

It comes from the word Nippon, meaning Japan.

NipNip

hardCopy wrote: »

Nip is a dated term for japanese people, similar to Jap.

It comes from the word Nippon, meaning Japan.

nothing to do with my username. :cool: