In brief, who such misanthrope, it is possible to understand from what means this term in Greek. So, mizos – hatred, the anthropos – the person. That is, roughly speaking, one may say, that the misanthrope is a misanthrope. Such person sincerely hates the human race and tries to be allocated with all possible ways from gray weight. Many will note that in this case misanthropes are similar to clowns. But this similarity only external, the last just want to be allocated with something, and the first in addition to it hate similar.
What does the misanthrope differ from the sociopath in?
The main difference of these two concepts that the misanthropy belongs to trait of character of the person which he is quite able to control, if necessary, and the second is already violation of mentality.
Symptoms for the stranger, sometimes, are similar, but nevertheless the misanthropy is not the mental diagnosis.
Important the fact that the sociopath, for purely clinical reasons, most often, has no conscience when misanthropes can quite have feelings of a regret, empathy, etc. Hatred to mankind does not disturb the misanthrope normally with it to coexist.
At the same time, it cannot be told about sociopaths who are guided only by the sudden rushes and desires. On themselves they judge correctness of all around the events.
But the above does not mean at all that the misanthrope has a little similar to the sociopath. Absolutely on the contrary, both specified type of the personality consider surpassing itself over other faceless people.
Signs of the misanthrope
Below some symptoms of the fact that you, perhaps, are a misanthrope will be specified.
- You can sit some in the public place and at the same time be afraid that someone will sit down by you. And if someone after all sat down nearby, then you continue to sit, strongly hoping that this person will not start talking to you.
- It is much more pleasant to you to sit next to someone and to be silent, than to fill silent pauses with "empty" subjects for maintenance of a conversation.
- For you there is nothing worse, than to get stuck in the closed space with the stranger. However, the situation can worsen much if this person begins also to speak.
- You still were not registered on social networks. From the first you do not answer calls, hoping that will not call back any more.
- You have a few friends, and all of them as well as you, hate surrounding people and take great pain to avoid any with them communication.
How to become the misanthrope?
Though this question is quite surprising, but nevertheless quite often people are set by it. It is possible to begin usual reading biographies and thoughts of the famous misanthropes to which it is possible to carry Kafka, Nietzsche, Swift and others.
Further begin to pay attention as most of people behave. Find their defects and faults. Signs of gregarious instinct and unconditional trust of most of people of media already, in itself, can cause the first signs of a misanthropy.
Try to fall in love with this world and, most likely, at you nothing will turn out. Thus, you can also develop at yourself line of hostility to the neighbor.
Contrast to the misanthrope
Philanthropists are the complete antithesis of misanthropes. They all heart believe in mankind and do continuous attempts somehow to it to help.
Most often, it turns out so that the person by the principle of the pendulum inclines between these two directions. It is the most effective method of perception of the world as firm adherents of one referral get a lot of discomfort from the tendencies: misanthropes are constantly irritated from shortcomings of the weight surrounding them, and philanthropists are upset from the fact that nothing can be changed in this world.
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