Antisocial Personality Disorder Part 1

Antisocial personality disorder is a chronic mental disorder where one’s thinking, perceiving things 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 current theme in their behavior is violating the rights of others and consistently ending up in conflicts. These individuals continue to lie, are angry, violent and also abuse alcohol and drugs. The majority of these individual have problems at home, school and at 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 in the 20s and then the behaviour 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 believed to be related to bad genes, bad environment or just bad luck. Individuals at greatest risk for antisocial personality are those who have a family history of mental problems, history of childhood sexual or physical abuse, having a chaotic or unstable childhood or loss of a parent at an early age.