Mental health disorders are conditions that affect someone’s whole life. Mental health disorders may affect how someone thinks, feels, acts and relates to others.
Antisocial personality disorder, in particular, is one of the most challenging types of mental problems. An antisocial personality disorder is characterized by impulsive, irresponsible, and often criminal behavior. Antisocial personality disorder, sometimes called “Sociopathy.”
People who suffer from antisocial personality disorder will typically have common traits as they can be manipulative, deceitful, and reckless. They won’t care for others’ feelings and won’t feel guilty when they manipulate or treat others harshly or with indifference.
Like most of the mental health disorder, an antisocial personality disorder is on a spectrum; it can range from severe symptoms to less severe ones. These symptoms can range from bad behaviors to breaking the law and committing serious crimes.
Most of the psychopaths are suffering from severe antisocial disorder personalities. Individuals with antisocial personality disorder usually break the law, commit crimes, lie, behave violently, and have problems with drugs and alcohol. Because of all these traits, people with antisocial disorder can’t fulfill responsibilities related to their families, work, or personal life.
Symptoms of Antisocial Personality Disorder
A person with an antisocial personality disorder may:
- Violating the rights of others.
- Manipulation.
- Zero feelings of regret or guilt.
- Behave irresponsibly and dangerous behavior.
- The difficulty of maintaining a long term relationship.
- Lack of control of anger.
- Breaking the law.
- Criminal behavior.
- Blame others for problems.
- Constant lying.
- Arrogance and sense of superiority.
- Lack of empathy.
What are the reasons for an antisocial personality disorder?
It is still unknown why people suffer from antisocial personality disorder, but both genetics and traumatic childhood experiences have a great effect and play a huge role in antisocial personality disorder.
Treating antisocial personality disorder
In the past, it was thought that there was no treatment for antisocial personality disorder, it was thought that it was a lifelong disorder with no treatment.
The recommended treatment for an individual with an antisocial personality disorder will depend on some factors including their age, previous history, but there are some tips and ways to treat antisocial personality disorder in the following few lines:
Therapy
Medical reports suggest that therapy is one of the effective ways to treat antisocial personality disorder. Even though therapy is effective but most of the patients use it as a last-minute call.
Support of Family and Friends
Family and friends support often play an active role in the patient’s decision about the treatment.
In some cases, support from family and friends is considered a treatment itself.
Medication
There’s little evidence to support the use of medication for treating antisocial personality disorder, although certain antipsychotic and antidepressant medications may be helpful in some instances.
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