• Genius@lemmy.zip
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    12 days ago

    The word psychopath comes from the Greek words psyche, meaning soul, and pathos, meaning suffering. So in Greek, psychopath means suffering soul.

    What a shit name.

    Fortunately, English speaking doctors invented a better name. Antisocial personality disorder.

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      12 days ago

      Damn that fits him even better.

      Dude was assaulted multiple times by a professor causing him to drop out and forever associate his passion with SA.

      Truly a tragic existence for a piece of garbage.

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        12 days ago

        I vote we take away the power of the word psychopath by using it to refer to ALL mental illnesses and disorders. And if someone says psychopath when they mean ASPD, we tell them to speak English.

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            No it shouldn’t, it’s a shit name. It means suffering soul. If we mean people with ASPD, let’s speak English.