What is considered a psycho? or crazy?
What is considered a psycho? How do you know if one is?
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neither is a technical term, therefore, neither has a clear definition. Both words are generally used by non-psychiatrists, so in those cases, it means whatever they want it to mean.
Psychosis characterizes the psychotic person. wikipedia defines psychosis like this:
"Psychosis is a generic psychiatric term for a mental state often described as involving a "loss of contact with reality". Stedman's Medical Dictionary defines psychosis as "a severe mental disorder, with or without organic damage, characterized by derangement of personality and loss of contact with reality and causing deterioration of normal social functioning."[1]"
check wikipedia for more details
There's not much difference. When you use the word "psycho", you tend to think of someone who may be violent or aggressively chaotic. But the word "crazy" in a mental health context can include "psycho" behavior as well as behavior which is perfectly harmless though abnormal.
Either way, they're not very flattering words to use if you really mean them.
Well, my friends and I always differentiated between the terms like this:
"psycho" - a momentary lapse in judgment and pure emotion takes over. e.g - a girl getting cheated on by her boyfriend beats his car with a tennis racquet when she catches him in the act.
"crazy" - a long-term mental problem that isn't going to go away once you calm down. e.g - a girl obsessed with a guy 4 years after they broke up and he no longer has anything to do with her.
Hard question since "crazy " is a slang for wild and abnormal or unusual . I'm psychotic and bipolar and without my medications I would hallucinate . I would see things that were not there and hear voices that are not real . So I am a psycho but I'm not crazy since I hold a job and function well in society .One out of three people in the U.S. suffer from some type of psychological disorder ... For more info go to www.nami.org
characterised by a person without feeling or empathy who acts on impulse with little regard for others.
look up the original meaning of the prefix "psych" think of how many words begin with that? what you find will be interesting, mabey even the opposite of what you were expecting!
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