34 sats \ 8 replies \ @Melisa OP 8 Jul \ parent \ on: New to Bitcoin! New to Stacker News! Ask Me Anything! AMA
Wow, what a question!
Certainly, from a psychiatric perspective, it is not appropriate or accurate to characterize a devout Bitcoin adherent as a psychopath.
In a few words, "psychopathy" can be defined as follows: A specific personality disorder characterized by persistent antisocial behavior, impaired empathy and remorse, boldness, disinhibition, and selfish traits.
Do you think "a devout Bitcoin adherent" demonstrates such traits?
I do not believe that adherence to or enthusiasm for Bitcoin is inherently consistent with these traits.
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Who says that? Most likely, psychopaths are the ones who said that! 😄
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Nah, I was just seeing how much you know about psychology 😂
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Oh, nice try! 😄
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modern psychologists have been duped into believing all kinds of definitions from made up definitionaries. psycho-pathologic thought is any thought deviating from the natural order of things. balanced thought uses both logical and abstract processes, but most of the population is locked into mostly logic or mostly abstraction. the result is invariably chaos.
how we think, so we feel, and so we act.
understanding bitcoin (standing under the rules of bitcoin) requires both abstract and logical thinking, and it is tightly connected to reality and real-world energy. the mind gets rebalanced when we think about Bitcoin and bitcoiners - hence it feels like a psychedelic experience, but really it is an awakening from psycho-pathologic thinking.
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