From: buzzard554@fastmail.co.uk   
      
   On 10/27/2018 1:38 AM, Oh so rich & successful JTEM wrote:   
   >   Martin Edwards wrote:   
   >   
   >> I agree with all that, but the term is also used indiscriminately by   
   >> people who are not aware of those definitions.   
   >   
   > "Psycho" is far more abused than narcissist, and every   
   > bit as inaccurately as you describe. The norm seems to   
   > be to identify the precise OPPOSITE of psychotic behavior   
   > as psychotic.   
   >   
   > Psychos, for example, tend to be charming! Not obnoxious   
   > assholes but charming! And they're manipulative, though   
   > not in any way they think would be obvious... else it   
   > wouldn't work, now would it? So you can say that psychos   
   > hide. They conceal what they are. This is how they get   
   > away with it.   
   >   
      
   Point.  I think a lot of psychiatric terminology is flung around carelessly.   
      
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