Is Jon Jones a sociopath/psychopath?

[HelloJapan]

Hes just a narcissist. You would be too.

Most likely just this.

 

[PlayTheGame]

He's a fighting genius.

And he's perfectly aware of that.

 

[Deleted member 449757]

I thought he just has some kind of undiagnosed autistic disorder. Asperger's or something.

 

[SuperLuigi]

A world champion of almost anything is bound to be crazy to some extent.

 

[xupacabra]

Hes just a narcissist. You would be too.

Thank you for saving this retarded thread..

 

[mbach4307]

Probably. The same way Michael Jordan and Tom Brady are. They dominate opponents and that's what matters in life to them.

 

[Rubberchin]

Is Luke Thomas going to accuse Cormier of being a racist for this?

 

[barillas]

I did find it interesting that in his interview with Helwani, when talking about his accident and the pregnant woman in the other car, Jones said that at the time he was worried about his career and going to jail. He did not express concern about the woman and her unborn child beyond the impact their injuries may have on him.

I don't want to make any diagnoses, but I would have thought most people would at least acknowledge the suffering of the other party and their family, rather than looking at an accident like that purely selfishly.

This, every normal people would've gone to the car and see if the person was ok, unless he were high as a kite.

 

[AP_RESURRECTION]

i would say no for the simple reason that sherdog should love sociopaths - they want people who say whatever they want to hear regardless of the situation

jones is unliked - some of the popular guys like chael, i think, have shown that kind of behavior though

 

[Krouget]

No, he isn't any of those.

He is, however, a professional fighter who is selling fights, and many people can't seem to tell the difference.

 

[BADodd06]

This is ridiculous. I am a doctoral-level psychologist and work at e federal prison so I would guess my experience with the antisocial spectrum is a little more than most on here.
1. Psychopath/Sociopath are not legitimate diagnoses and are outdated terms used only in research/theoretical speak and are subsumed under Antisocial Personality Disorder
2. Yes his public behavior is extremely problematic to the extent that he can be said to legitimately have impulse-control and conduct issues; however, regardless of what we see on media and think we know about Jon Jones, we have nowhere near enough info to even approach a diagnosis, especially when it comes to knowing about his childhood and development.
3. With his current status and life Jones is socially in an extraordinary situation that I'm assuming nobody on this threat can even begin to relate to. Evaluating potentially abnormal behavior/presentations from somebody who is living in an all-around abnormal environment is extremely difficult since standards shift especially when it comes to narcissism.
4. You cannot diagnose somebody of any disorder without a full evaluation over multiple sessions. This is true for the majority of mental health diagnosis but is UNIQUELY true for personality disorders making this thread both idiotic and offensive.

 

[The Best JG]

Hes having fun with his money. Lots of people would have done the same shit, just unfortunate for JJ hes getting caught a lot. As for running after hitting the lady, he was probably just really high and panicked, or didnt wanna take a breathalyzer at the moment

 

[oddballposter]

Are you, TS?

 

[Reissue]

First, thanks to tenniswhiz and hellojapan for clearing up many of the stuff ts wrongfully posted (i cringed hard when he labeled bpd as psychopathy).

What many have to realize, and that might or might not help for understandig, is that psychopathology is not a dichotom criteria, but a continuum of cognitions with a completly functional and "sane" end (allthough i don't believe that this exists in humans, we all have are problems and those who would vow they don't are imo either not educated and reflective enough to identify and aknowledge their problematic patterns or this denial might even be part of the problem) and a completly disfunctional end. The dichotomisation in sane and sick probably arose from clinical pragmatics and seems to confuse the layman. You don't have to fullfill the criteria of a diagnose to share common problematic cognitions and behaviors with those diagnosed. A clinical diagnose (and since im not a clinical psychologist, please clear up if there are exceptions) is cummulative diagnose, for example you take one person that fullfills the criteria of a borderline personality disorder. Than you do nothing else but work on self-injurious behavior (assuming this person commits sib as it is one possible (but not neccessary) criteria for bpd-diagnose) and the person succesfully abandones this behaviour. If she had just the minimum amount of points for the diagnosis, she can't longer be labeled a borderliner.
Does that mean she has not the same problems (minus sib) as befor?
Of course not. Of course she does.

Some might have similar problems (cognitions and behavior) than one who could be diagnosed with npd or aspd, only not the exact same amount or intensity, without beeing labeled with a psychopathology. You can share the same traits in a subclinical sector. Most, maybe all normal cognitions shared among every "normal" human can develop to be psychopathologies if extremly increased or decreased in intensity.

I just wanted to add this, to further show why it really is of no purpose than entertainment to speculate which psychopathology jones posseses.
I dislike his personality (even though i do pitty him in some ways as he seems rather insecure in many occasions, but of course i could be wrong), he might be rather egocentric (which i believe you have to be to some degree to be succesfull on a high level) but to assume that he is a narcisist or a psychopath because he didn't first thought of the woman he hurt is hasty.

By the way, this is another rather interesting human cognition: the indignation about the behaviour of a person in a situation, without ever have proven to act differently. The lack of modesty in regards to accept that one can't say for sure how one would have acted in a similar situation, but declare one would have made everything right and would have acted helpful and selflessly while hundreds and thousands of studies over decades have shown evidence that completly normal humans often times act exactly like those who they look down to and verbally attack because of their lack of helpfull and selflessly behavior.

But it's so nice to play holier than you without the burden of proof that one really is.

I hope this all is somewhat coherent. I hate to write posts on the mobile phone because of the lack of text oberview

 

[Son of Jamin]

All psychopaths have a much higher IQ than the average person but usually don't put it to use.

Several studies have concluded that in general, psychopaths have IQs similar to those of non-psychopathic lawbreakers. The only difference is that the severity of criminality increases in psychopaths who are more intelligent.

 

[Thurisaz]

At the very least, if not a telepath and an osteopath as well.

 

[IBack666]

Hey pussy are you still there?

 

[VulcanNervPinch]

Well, you're talking in terms of a clinical diagnosis, which the vast majority of Sherdoggers are wildly incapable of making.
(I'm not a professional, but have some psych background)

I'm not familiar with the definition you're proposing

A psychopath is generally considered to be someone who suffers from one of the psychopathic (cluster-b) personality disorders which are Antisocial Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder.

Maybe that's something newer?

I think of psychopathy more along the lines of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy_Checklist#Items

I'd say he definitely could have one of those PDs, but I don't think we have enough evidence from where we are.
On the type of definition I'm used to, there's definitely enough for him to score some points, but not enough evidence for a diagnosis level score.


(We do have enough evidence to diagnose him as a douchebag, however)

 

[Diggem]

Wow and Damn. How is this thread not wastelanded and the TS automatically banned?

I guess you can say anything on here really bad,slanderous and ridiculous as long as its about Jones.

You all should be ashamed for allowing this.

 

[TheVaado]

After that off-air thing that happened on espn, I was kind of skeptical. With that and the car crash where he didn't check on lady he hit, I think there's something a little loose upstairs.