A Guide To Psychopaths And Sociopaths

Imani State of Mind

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Hobbies, Education, Leisure, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 7 January 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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American Psycho, Natural Born Killers, The Joker...we love psychopaths in our movies. But how do you tell if someone is really a psychopath? And on this week's Pop Culture Diagnosis, it's Homeland and bipolar disorder. Need mental health advice? Send your question to [email protected] or call (424) 235-0064‬ and Dr. Imani might answer it on the show.

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0:00.0	Not too long ago, I had this patient and they were very mistrusting. They didn't really seem to do well with any authority figures, including me. They just really weren't very likable, but that's not out of the ordinary because the patients that I tend to deal with aren't necessarily the warmest and fuzziest of people. But this person I knew had an antisocial personality
0:26.7	disorder because he was just very, like, very like aggressive, angry, didn't, like, anytime I would
0:37.2	mention, like, okay, well, you know what, I don't know what
0:40.7	you're going to be able to do tomorrow, but you can talk to your therapist because they know
0:45.1	more so of the rules. He began to be very, very irritable and kind of tried to make it seem like
0:52.0	he was above the rules. So I would say a lot of mental health
0:56.5	clinicians, I don't think that it's weird for me to say that they may not necessarily want to
1:01.4	deal with someone who has antisocial personality traits. I really felt for this patient
1:06.6	because there's a lot of stigma around terms like psychopathy and sociopathy. And because they're misunderstood and because there's a lot of stigma around terms like psychopathy and sociopathy.
1:11.6	And because they're misunderstood and because there's a stigma, it means that people will often react very negatively to being told that they even exhibit any of these traits or if they're even diagnosed with any of these traits.
1:24.9	So while they're not always the most likable people, my heart
1:28.6	still really goes out for them.
1:33.8	Taking care of our minds is just as important as taking care of our bodies. But how do you
1:40.3	even start that journey? Think of Emani state of mind as your beacon of sanity on your path to getting your mind right.
1:46.0	We're in this together, y'all.
1:47.2	Let's get into an Imani state of mind.
1:50.3	Hey, everybody and welcome to Imani state of mind.
1:53.3	We're going to be talking about psychopathy and sociopathy today, which is actually one of my favorite topics.
1:59.2	So, Cam, tell me about what you think about the topic and what
2:03.8	you're excited about. I like this topic. I think that it's interesting because you hear these
2:12.5	words like you're a psychopath or that person's a sociopath, but maybe you don't really understand
2:18.3	what that means. So I'm happy that we're going to break it down. I think that we have a lot of
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