Am I a psychopath or depressed?

[Anonymous]

I think I'm a psychopath cos I don't really feel feelings ever, I don't find anything sad... People or pets who are very close to me, if they die... I don't really care and get over it in 0.3 second's.

Also have no interest or motivation to do anything, I just sit in bed all day watching TV and kill time... sometimes I can't even concentrate what's happening in the film's or programmes I watch cos I find everything boring.

People say this sounds like depression, but isn't depression a sadness or a struggle where people feel tortured to be alive?
I'm not sad or Suicidal, I don't find being alive a struggle, I have a nice easy life... Just a very boring one

Depressed

Psychopath

Neither, just a pathetic

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I mean apathetic

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Also have no friends or social interactions, I could go 59 years with no interaction with another human and I don't even feel lonely

[Кураж]

Psychopaths experience plenty of emotions internally, often times even more strongly than normal people due to impaired inhibitions.
What they respond poorly to are external emotional stimuli, due to impaired empathy and forethought.

They are often described as "cold" and "emotionless" because they:
1 have hard time identifying what emotions other people are going through.
2 fail to see the impact and implications of actions and consequences.

They don't seem disturbed by death, pain or loss because "they" simply don't care and they don't intrinsically empathize with other people's loss or pain, to them it's simply inconsequential so it doesn't affect their emotional state.

[Кураж]

What you are describing sounds a lot like anhedonia, which is indeed a symptom of depression.
People with clinical depression aren't necessarily "sad", they just struggle finding satisfaction in anything.
And with that comes apathy and the lack of motivation to do anything, because when nothing makes you feel good anymore, you eventually stop seeing "the point" in pursuing anything.

That's what depression is.

[Asker]

hmm, so im depressed? never even knew lol

[Asker]

also that seems kinda familiar to me the part u said about not understanding others emotions, like if someone is sad about the death of a loved one and cries about... thats something i dont understand,
or if someone gets raped and upset about it, i dont understand why they are upset cos i wouldn't care if i got raped so i can't relate to them

[Asker]

also im not disturbed by death either, i watched the grizzly bear man death recording and everyone in the comments said its traumatize them and really sad, but i jus feel nothing while listening to it,
i even watched some gore videos of mexican cartels dismembering people and feel blank while watching

[Asker]

also to mention i use to like cutting snails eyes off with scissors as a kid, i even kicked kittens and recorded videos of it for fun, then my mum accidentally caught me and told me off and i never kicked kittens again or big animals,. but i have no problems torturing small bugs, I've learnt to feel empathy for big animals, but i dont think bugs matter so i get a kick out of torturing them

[jahaims]

Probably depressed. If you accidentally hit a kid with a car would you feel bad? If not probably a sociopath or psychopath.

[Asker]

i wouldn't really care, i mean its sad in a logical thought sense yeah, but as in emotionally dwelling on it and being sad, no, i jus continue my day and forget it happened

[Asker]

its sad that it had to happen but it is what it is, i wouldn't purposely hit a kid, but if i happen to by accident... no point in feeling sad about it

[Aurora1010]

I don't know if it's depression but it might be, because there was a time I felt that way too, but I felt it after a really bad mental break-down.
If you don't enjoy making other people and animals suffer or playing with their suffering I guess you're not a psychopath though.
But no one hear could tell for sure, only your psychiatrist or psychologist could.

[Aurora1010]

Or a therapist

[Asker]

i like to play torture small bugs to make them suffer as long death as possible, its kinda fun, the only reason i dont kill humans is because im human myself and wouldn't wanna be in their shoes, so i think killing humans is messed up, but smaller more insignificent life is ok to torture for fun i think,
i might even go as far as to get pleasure from seeing a pig being put into a bath of boiling water given that i was in a legal situation to get away with it, for example working at a slaughterhourse, the law is the only reason i dont, fuck being in a cell for years, my lifes boring enough as it is lool

[Asker]

also i dont know what a mental breakdown is or what its for or why people have them lol

[Flower7]

The part about not caring much about deaths sounds like a psychopath. But I’ve never known having lack of interest in things to be a symptom of a psychopath.

[whereismyjohnny]

I think you should see/ask the therapist about it. People on GaG can't ''diagnose'' you. We can only assume.

[Wise4myage]

Could be A or B or both. You should consider talking to a therapist.

[EnglishEuropean]

Psychopaths aren't immune to depression, so far as I know.

[exitseven]

You are depressed.