What is the difference between a psychopath and sociopath?

@Reject I thought the difference was that psychopaths couldn't feel emotions, and so they concluded that neither could anybody else. Like, sociopaths can feel but psychopaths can't?

@LordShadowfire A psychopath is very broadly defined as someone who has lost touch with reality because of their own perspective or emotions. People do this in a variety of different ways which is where all the different kinds of psychopathy come from. Some kinds of psychopaths feel less emotions and are generally apathetic, such as schizophrenics, but they all feel. The reason for apathy in schizophrenia is because they’re so lost in their own fantasies that actual reality doesn’t affect them anymore. At least not as much as their imagined experiences. It can certainly seem like they feel nothing at all.

@Reject Well, I guess I should rephrase. I was under the impression that they thought they couldn't feel. I was also under the impression that there was a particular variety of psychopathy that had to do with brain chemistry from birth, and was generally considered incurable.

@LordShadowfire I’m sure there are some psychopaths who have concluded that they can’t feel. Most likely because they don’t feel like me or you do. They might even believe that’s true for others as well, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they don’t feel anything at all. They often struggle with a lack of meaning because of their lack of feeling so most of their subsequent actions are meant to find meaning. That pursuit alone is proof of emotion. There are well documented cases of psychopathy from birth and it can’t be cured. However, I choose to believe that there’s ways to help them still, unfortunately we just don’t have the means or resources to help them yet. So they often end up being removed from society because of how dangerous they are.