Antisocial Personality Disorder is a condition characterized by persistent disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others that begins in childhood or early adolescence and continues into adulthood.
First of all, Antisocial Personality Disorder has symptoms related with poor behavioural controls. Person shows expressions of irritability, annoyance or impatience. Also, this disorder related with inadequate control of anger and temper which can be shown in everyday life or important and meaningful for person, who is disordered, situations. For example, due to aggression person often get involved in fights and such situations make one‘s life more difficult than other‘s.
Secondly, this personality disorder is strongly related with deceit and manipulation. These features are the most important and have strong negative affect on person‘s social and even educational life. The situation, when disordered person are not under control, are very difficult, as he is lying repeatedly, using various aliases or conning others for own profit or pleasure. This person is cold, contemptuous and inconsiderate, as he has a lack of feelings toward others.
Moreover, strong affect to person‘s life are caused by disregard for right or wrong, as person do things without any social, ethnic or moral rules. He has greatly inflated idea of one‘s abilities and self – esteem, but no feelings or concern for losses, pain and suffering of other people. Also, important thing is that person who suffers from Antisocial Personality Disorder usually fails in acceptance of responsibility for one‘s own actions.
To sum up, Antisocial Personality Disorder influences a big part of person‘s life. It is related with psychological, physical health and even social or educational status of person‘s.
References:
http://www.mentalhealth.com/dis/p20-pe04.html [2010-11-09]
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