I'm a diagnosed psychopath to state it bluntly. After being diagnosed with Major Depression Disorder, me and my psychiatrist explored and found that I had a type of personality disorder, psychopathy.

I feel like I cannot come clean about my Disorder, I am not ashamed, but I feel many are uneducated what a psychopath actually is. Media constantly portrays, erroneously equating the personality disorder exclusively with violence, criminality, and "monster-like" behavior. I didn't know I was the second coming of Jeffery Dahmer because I lack empathy or remorse. I can differentiate between right, and wrong.

Key misconceptions include the beliefs that all psychopaths are murderers, incapable of feeling any emotion, and untreatable, which limits social acceptance and negatively impacts clinical care.…