Psychotic = experiencing hallucinations, delusions, and/or impairments in thinking and speech.
Psychopath = does not experience empathy.
They're quite different. People who experience psychosis typically have schizophrenia, bipolar, or a related mental health condition, and can manage their psychosis with medication and stress-management.
Psychopathy is what's now called Antisocial Personality Disorder, and is associated with problems with anger and impulse control. People with this condition often run into issues with the law. However, not experiencing empathy doesn't necessarily mean that they're a bad person -- if someone has good coping mechanisms and a strong moral code, they can still live a good life, even if it isn't based on empathy.
Just make sure that he doesn't use his issues as an excuse to be a jerk to you or others. Be supportive of him if he wants to get help for his issues, but don't take on all his problems as your responsibility.
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Psychotic = experiencing hallucinations, delusions, and/or impairments in thinking and speech.
Psychopath = does not experience empathy.
They're quite different. People who experience psychosis typically have schizophrenia, bipolar, or a related mental health condition, and can manage their psychosis with medication and stress-management.
Psychopathy is what's now called Antisocial Personality Disorder, and is associated with problems with anger and impulse control. People with this condition often run into issues with the law. However, not experiencing empathy doesn't necessarily mean that they're a bad person -- if someone has good coping mechanisms and a strong moral code, they can still live a good life, even if it isn't based on empathy.
Just make sure that he doesn't use his issues as an excuse to be a jerk to you or others. Be supportive of him if he wants to get help for his issues, but don't take on all his problems as your responsibility.