Antisocial Disorder

Antisocial disorder can be defined as a kind of a chronic illness, which affects the human mental health. It can also be referred to as Sociopathic Personality Behavior.

The condition makes a person’s way of thinking abnormal, destructive and offensive to others. A person suffering from this condition has a perception different from the normal human one.

This person becomes agitative, and may look at wrong or right as a right for him to exercise. This therefore results to breaking of the law and as a result, the person may make the law enforcers notice him and seek to find out whether he is on drugs or consuming alcohol in a self-destructive way.

Antisocial disorder is not only offensive in the law, but it also makes those living with the sick person suffer emotionally or be in danger from the abnormal person.

If this person is a husband to a certain woman, he may subject those close to him to the following;

• Failure to fend for his family
• He might abuse his children and others’ or even defile them.
• Lack of remorse whenever he is on the wrong
• Repeatedly getting into problems with the law
• Failure to satisfy his spouse as far as conjugal rights are concerned.
• Neglecting his parents and other dependants
• Desertion of his workplace duties
• Low performance at work or low quality work done if any
• Unable to present himself decently therefore bringing shame to his family and those close to him

As a result of the above failures, this person may subject his close ones and himself to the following.

• Long-term shame and regret
• They may reject him
• Some may take him to a rehabilitation centre for correction of behavior where the comfort of the centre might not be as goods as that of the home.
• A young man or woman/girl may be unable to concentrate on the cycles of life and miss out on important natural duties and life stages such as dating and marriage and other entertainments..

The list is endless and anything left is another disadvantage. Nothing good can come out of the mental abnormality.

According to long-term research, most of the people who are in the harmful antisocial behavior are those in their twenties.

As they age, the behavior dies away or reduces in the life of those in the twenties age bracket. It is not very clear if it is out of healing from the rehabilitation or it is due to realization that he is lagging behind his age mates, since he wasted time concentrating on factors, which led him to the hateful life of alcohol and drugs.

Antisocial disorder is a mental condition that starts at childhood. It is characterized by continuous disregard for the rights of other children and violation of their rights. There are instances where antisocial disorder starts at adolescence and progress to adulthood.

Manipulation and deceit are the main features of this condition. For the diagnosis of this condition to be given, on has to be eighteen years old and showing symptoms of the disorder before they attain fifteen years. Antisocial disorder is diagnosed when the delinquent behavior becomes very distressing and persistent.

For antisocial disorder to be diagnosed, the following traits have to be noticed:

• Failing to plan and compulsivity
• Failing to conform to the norms of the society as far as lawful behaviors are concerned. This can be seen when an individual engages in acts that make one liable for arrest.
• Deceit. This can be indicated by the tendency to lie and con others. This could be for personal gain, profit or pleasure.
• Recklessness and lack of regard for safety of oneself and that of others.
• Consistent irresponsibility. This may be indicated by failure to maintain consistency in work or honor obligations.
• Lacking remorse even after mistreating others. The individual with antisocial disorder is always indifferent and does not show fellow feeling.

Antisocial disorder is diagnosed only in adults since these behaviors are common in adolescents and children. As such, there must be an onset of delinquent behaviors observed before the age of fifteen years.

It is also important to note that approximately 80 to 85 percent of the incarcerated criminals suffer from antisocial disorder. It is also important to note that these individuals are not psychopaths. Only 50 percent of people who commit serious crimes are psychopaths. These include repeat rapists and serial killers. Professionally, there are three groups of people with antisocial disorder.

These are group A persons. These include traits such as odd or eccentric behavior and social isolation. Such disorders are inclusive of the following:

• Persons with a paranoid behavior
• Schizoid personality
• Schizotypal personality

There is also the cluster B of persons with antisocial disorder. This category has persons with erratic or dramatic behaviors. The behaviors are inclusive of:

• Histrionic personality
• Antisocial personality
• Borderline personality
• Narcissistic personality

There is also a cluster C category of persons with antisocial disorder. These individuals show inhibited behavior and anxiety. This disorder is inclusive of:

• Dependent personality
• Avoidance personality
• Obsessive and compulsive personality

Antisocial disorder is basically a pervasive behavior of violating and disregarding other people’s rights. The criteria for diagnosing this disorder has to show at least three specific traits explained in this article.