Anti Social Personality Disorder Paper

Antisocial describes someone who is unable, or chooses not, to spend time with other people, and sometimes expresses their feelings in an unkind or rude way. People with Antisocial Personality Disorder (sociopath, psychopath) try to get their way without being considerate of others. They show spontaneous behavior, which humiliates or harms other people. They do not lack any feeling for or understanding of norms, nor have they any feeling of guilt. They do not seem to be able to plan actions or to act with foresight. Antisocial PD occurs more often in men than in women.

Psychosocial predictors (which can be confounded by genetic factors) are among other things antisocial behaviors of the father, alcohol abuse of the Keywords: Sociopath, Psychopath In a world full of fears, perhaps the worst one a human being should have is that to be afraid of his fellow man. The human that should be most feared someone that has Anti-Social Personality Disorder, in which others call “The Psychopath”. The psychopath is probably the most deviant mind that exists and treatment is not very successful because there is not a cure or drug to control it.

The solution in my mind to control the problem of sociopaths is to let them live in colonies with each other. Throughout my research I developed an understanding of this personality disorder and have come up with my solution that might be an excellent solution. The sociopath is a combination of other mental illnesses that is brought about from the developers’ childhood as a result of heredity, trauma and the lack of emotional development. The lack of moral or emotional development which gives a sociopath a lack of understanding for other people’s feeling.

Enabling them to be deceitful without feeling bad about whatever they do. The under developed emotional system as explained in the one of my web articles about the disorder says that the sociopath is “emotionally retarded”. The sociopathic behavior problems that start as a child have links to heredity, a family with a pre-disposition to perform crimes, alcoholic parents that do crimes, irresponsible behavior that persists and parents that do not discipline or lack of faithful attention.

The child that will eventually be a sociopath exhibits certain feeling inside that they are inadequate, shamed and because of that they are teased and made fun of. The child characteristics of a future sociopath consist of being incapable of following the rules. The child is likely to develop Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or AD|HD. At an earlier age than their peer group the child will smoke drink, do drugs, and become sexually active. The diagnosis of Anti-Social Personality Disorder is not used for people under the age of 18.

The Psychopath is defined in the dictionary as a person suffering from, especially a severe mental disorder with aggressive antisocial behavior, which is, a nice way of saying a really mean person. There are many characteristics of a sociopath and each sociopath has their own special traits. A sociopath gets great gratification in the act of hurting someone for absolutely no reason. The behavior of a sociopath is so close to normal it is extremely hard to diagnose. A sociopath is a person that acts against society and their sole purpose it seems is to act against the laws of the given land their end.

The sociopath will in most cases become violent and abuse drugs and alcohol to facilitate the violent behavior. The violence in many cases he result of sub-conscious decisions that might lead to murdering or assaulting someone for no reason. A sociopath has little self regard for them and pays little attention to their own personal safety when picking fights. Quite often they will be outsized and get hurt. Some sociopaths are non-violent and stay out of prison by doing small crimes like swindling and insurance fraud. It is possible that a sociopath will come from a normal home but there are more that do not.

A sociopath has the opposite morals of society and by doing things like beating up people that are stronger than them they feel like they did something positive. A psychopath is very reactive and will blow their cool because of little things and no doubt assault the person they are reacting to. The antisocial tends to have short lasting relationships if they are capable of having a relationship. The psychopathic incapable of having long lasting, close, warm and responsible relationships with people in many ways. The adult will habitually lie and cannot hold a job for long.

The sociopath can seem charming in superficial social interactions but repeatedly hurt, anger, exploit, cheat, rob, harass or injure them. The actions a psychopath no matter what laws they break, whoever they hurt, whatever trouble they have to deal with they do not feel bad. When a sociopath is punished they have no feeling of regret because no matter how cruel or selfish the behavior is they feel it is justified. People like us give the sociopath little sympathy because they hurt people so bad, but their illness is recognized as somewhat of an explanation of why they do it.

The idea of the disorder is no excuse for their behavior that results from it. The sociopath is very intelligent and knows how to manipulate people into thinking they are normal. Beneath the mask of sanity a sociopath is full of tension, hostility, irritability, rage, emptiness and sadness at the core of the sociopathic personality. When they hurt a person a sociopath might think he had it coming or I’m watching out for number 1. Those sociopaths with children neglect them and do not keep them safe.

As a spouse the sociopath can be glib, superficial, manipulative, dishonest, abusive and unfaithful. The sociopath tends to borrow, squander and not repay the money they owe. Many sociopaths never settle down for any period of time, they will travel without aim looking for jobs or whatever they need and get it by doing anything. A sociopath may look tough and resilient but is very fragile and can erupt very easily. The diagnosis of a sociopath or psychopath is very difficult and has to meet several criteria in order to get that diagnoses.

Diagnoses as explained in Caring for the Mind is based on “a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others, occurring since the age of fifteen, as indicated by at least three of the following. One thing would be failure to conform to the social norms for lawful behavior, as indicated by repeatedly performing illegal acts that are grounds for arrest. A second thing would be deceitfulness, as indicated by repeatedly lying, use of aliases, or conning others for personal profit or pleasure.

The third thing is impulsivity failure to plan ahead. The fourth thing would be the irritability and aggressive, as indicated by repeated physical fights or assaults. The fifth thing would be reckless disregard for safety of self or others. The sixth one would be consistent irresponsibility as indicated by failure to keep a job or honor financial obligations. The final one would be the lack of remorse, as indicated by indifference or rationalizations for having hurt, mistreated or stolen from others must be older than 18 to be diagnosed with it.

Anti-Social Personality Disorder is found in as much as 75% of the prison population. Alcohol is a contributing cause or consequence of being antisocial. People that are both antisocial and alcoholic are prone to violent behavior. Not every antisocial becomes a criminal though. An antisocial person’s disorder peaks between the ages of 24 and 44 and drops off sharply after that. After the age of 30 the sociopath fights less and performs less crime but the illness can persist into the ages of between 60 and 70 but after 30 are less likely to be in trouble with the law.

In sociopaths in their thirties will continue to have problems such as unstable relationships, substance abuse, impulsiveness, poor temper control and failure to honor financial obligations. The sociopath is a bundle of problems that could come from any part of life and they are very hard to handle. If a person is diagnosed with Anti-Social Personality Disorder is very hard to treat and there is no cure for their behavior. Because the disorder remits in the thirties, it tends to be less obvious.

Those that are forced into psychotherapy cannot tolerate the intimacy of the required therapy. The therapist has to focus on enhancing strength, channel the sensation of seeking actions on people into more positive socially responsible behaviors and to teach practical ways in dealing with every day frustration. Medications are not recommended in the treatment of sociopath, but drugs can diminish the violent episodes. People with Anti-Social Personality Disorder also have Attention DeficitHyperactivity Disorder and stimulants are used to treat that such as Ritalin.

There are no long term results to study of this approach of using stimulants but they should not be prescribed unless the person is specifically diagnosed with ADHD and has not responded to other medication. The use of drugs cannot be abused and should be closely monitored. There is a disorder called Borderline that is often misdiagnosed as Anti-Social Personality Disorder which is quite similar to it. Borderline Disorder is a little bit more aggressive than Antisocial, similar nonetheless.

The diagnoses of a sociopath is extremely difficult because they have so many mental problems to contend with the complete diagnoses might not occur. The inability to diagnose and treat properly leads me to believe that there is not a clear solution as to how the general population should react and treat these severely troubled people. This is a disorder that blinds the emotions and actions the sociopath which in no way is their fault for having it. Although the disorder is not the given sociopath’s fault there is no real place for a sociopath in our society.

I believe that once diagnosed with the isorder that all sociopaths should be sent to some kind of controlled colony that would run like a normal city or town except all its residents would be sociopaths. By having sociopaths colonized together with all the parts of a normal society it would be good for them because the only people they could hurt or manipulate would be their fellow sociopath. The sociopath would be constantly bored with average person and sometimes causing them to hurt the average person when they were caused to interact with fellow sociopaths it would keep them interested because it is not as easy to manipulate or con.

The possibility of violence in my colony is great but the sociopaths would not mind because it is in their personality and it would serve us better if they killed or hurt each other rather than us. In closing the sociopath is so hard to deal with we should make strides to control their behavior in public. This makes dealing with antisocial personality disorder is too much a hassle and should be taken seriously amongst anyone who may deal with it.