Antisocial personality disorder
“We do not have to be mental health professionals to identify the traits of the possible sociopaths among us.”― P.A. Speers
Antisocial Personality Disorder
Antisocial personality disorder is a type of psychological problem in which a person is irresponsible, impulsive and often shows criminal behavior. The person who has this type of disorder does not care about other people. The person has no guilt for their unpleasant behaviour. This disorder is also known as sociopathy. They can do drug and alcohol abuse.
Causes of Antisocial Personality Disorder
There are some common causes which specialists consider are the causes of antisocial disorders. They are the following:
- Environmental factors
- Family history
- Changes in brain functions
- Learned behaviours from others which we called modelling
These are common causes behind almost all the personality disorders. It is because they are the major contributors towards the formation of specific personality factors.
Symptoms of Antisocial Personality Disorder
Following are the symptoms of antisocial personality disorder which we discussed here:
- No regards to right and wrong
- Violate the rights of other peoples
- Regret about other people’s distress
- Having problems in long-term relationships
- Irresponsible behaviour
- Become aggressive and cannot control anger
- Blame others for their problems in life
- Not learning from their mistakes
- Always violate the laws
What are the risk factors of antisocial personality disorder?
Following are some of the most observed risk factors of antisocial personality disorder:
- If you have a family history of personality disorder
- Due to some changes in brain functions leads to schizotypal personality disorder
- Some environmental factors also involve
- Unstable family life during childhood
- Being neglect during childhood
Common Complications
Following are the common complications you may face if you are having an antisocial personality disorder:
- Drug and alcohol abuse
- Being in jail
- Child abuse or neglect
- Alone and homelessness
- Premature death due to crimes
- Try to suicide
- No social relationships
Diagnoses
There are certain test batteries developed for the identification of Psychopathy. Having certain scores in those Tests in sure that the person has this disorder. Following are the methodologies and techniques used by the doctors or psychiatrist are:
- Psychiatric evaluation
- Asking about the symptoms you have experience
- Diagnostic criteria from DSM-5
Treatment of Antisocial Personality Disorders
You would be surprised to know that this disorder has no treatment that has proved to be effective so far. The main reason behind it is that most of the psychological therapies are highly dependent upon emotional associations and empathy development. People with this personality disorder lack significantly in emotions and empathy therefore any sort of psychotherapy does not have good results for their treatment. The next thing that may come to your mind is that punishment may have any effect to eradicate their Anti-Social behavior but even punishment does not have any effect on them and they will not change no matter how hard conditions they have to face for what they have done.