Antisocial Personality Disorder
Antisocial personality disorder is a chronic mental disorder where one’s thinking, perception and relationship with others is impaired. Individuals with antisocial personality disorder do not care about what is right or wrong, they do whatever they please. The one theme in their behavior is violating the rights of others and consistently ending up in conflicts. Individuals with antisocial personality disorder continue lie, are angry, violent and may abuse drugs and alcohol. The majority of these individual have problems with school and work.
Typical signs of this disorder include:
-Disregard and violating rights of others
-Persistent lying, cheating or fraudulent behavior
-Manipulative
-Persistent legal problems
-Threatening or intimidating others
-Aggressive and violent tendencies
-Lack of remorse
-Impulsive behavior
-Abusive relationships
-Irresponsible at work
Anti social personality disorder peaks during their 20s and diminishes over time. The chief reason for this decline is that many individuals end up in prison for their violent acts.
Why the disorder occurs is a mystery but it's believed that it's in their genes or acquired due to ones environment. Individuals at greatest risk for antisocial personality are those with a family history of mental problems, a history of childhood sexual or physical abuse, a chaotic or unstable childhood or suffered the loss of a parent at an early age.
Antisocial personality disorder occurs in about 5 percent of men and about 1 percent of women. As the disorder progresses, there is severe depression, anxiety, suicidal and reckless behavior, violence, risky and impulsive behavior, incarceration, alcohol and drug abuse and difficulty with interpersonal relationships.
Like many mental disorders, the treatment of anti social personality disorder is multidisciplinary. Treatment options vary from psychotherapy, to stress and anger management, to use of medications.
Psychotherapy and anger management are widely used to treat antisocial personality disorder but many with the disorder are not compliant with therapy.
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