I feel strange about them. Why do they steal, lie, get fired of job many times? Don't they know that it only makes condition worse for themselves? Is it because of the chemical imbalance in brain?
2007-10-29 05:31:00 · 6 answers · asked by Lelaki Curious 2 in Health ➔ Mental Health
People don't get this way by choice. They have been treated callously, with hostility and neglect, as babies and small children. The neurochemical response is a RESULT of their treatment and what they have had to do to survive. They perceive the world as hostile (because it always was) and haven't had the experiences that enable individuals to form relationships. If people just shout at you or hit you or handle you roughly or leave you shut in a room from birth, you do not get a sense of a caring person who you can trust and have to armour yourself in order to survive. This will include ways of dealing with neurochemicals that are different from the majority - a total shutdown of cortisol production, for instance, which is what is released when we're anxious and then, when we're soothed, is re-absorbed. If we don't get the soothing, we either get into a permanently anxious state or shut off totally. Read Sue Gerhardt's book "Why Love Matters" for a more detailed explanation of the scientific understandings we now have of these psychological processes.
They really can't help how they are. I don't mean that we should therefore say it's all OK, because it clearly is not and we must hold people responsible for how they behave. But to effect any change in such people may be impossible - not a word that I, as a psychotherapist, like to use.
2007-10-29 06:08:04 · answer #1 · answered by Ambi valent 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There may be genetic factors, but most clinicians believe it is learned behavior. There is no medication that can treat antisocial personality disorder.
Personality Disorders in general are pretty strange; as if the person has adapted to a certain way of looking at the world and they have refused to change the way they think. It may seem as though the person isn't very intelligent. However, some people with personality disorders are very intelligent but they still seem to be "stuck" in certain behaviors.
People with Antisocial Personality Disorder appear to believe they are always right and everyone else is always wrong. They seem to be born with a complete lack of compassion for others. If they get into trouble, they tend to blame it on other people. They rarely seem to learn anything from being punished, or to admit when they are wrong. However, some of them start behaving more appropriately when they are in their 40s or older.
Some of them may have been abused or neglected as children, or they did not have postive role models.
The DSM-IV (published by the American Psychiatric Association) states that the behavior starts in childhood, but before the age of 18 it is called Conduct Disorder (stealing, lying, setting fires, hurting people and animals, etc.). Oppositional Defiant Disorder is a milder variation where the child has a complete disrespect for authority figures but does not have the blatant criminal behavior of Conduct Disorder.
Antisocial Personality Disorder affects mostly men, but some women have it as well.
2007-10-29 13:49:59 · answer #2 · answered by majnun99 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
feel strange about them. Why do they steal, lie, get fired of job many times? Don't they know that it only makes condition worse for themselves? Is it because of the chemical imbalance in brain?
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alot of questions, about too many variables.
every person is different, and you cannot blanket-label all of them.
yes------it's a chemical imbalance...yes there are medications...no, not everyone has the money for the medications. no, they do not know what they are doing at times, no more than alcoholics,...or any other obsession.
no more than some kids running around destroying things that do not belong to them and then ALL kids get blamed for what one group did...huh?
you cannot blame everyone for what a few do...can you?
I partially understand why you are asking....but I fail to understand why you feel ALL are to blame?
it's not a perfect world......and not everyone can deal with it.
it's all part of the real adult world. it's one big scary place and not all people know what to do about it.
2007-10-29 05:41:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you don't care/ have different priorities about things other people care about/ highly prioritise then you appear anti social. E.g someone might put having a laugha s a numebr 1 priority and other peoples happiness as number two so you see thing as being mroe important than other things...
2007-10-29 05:44:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Antisocial personality disorder is the new name for sociopath.
Read this if you want to know how they are. It's a rare disorder though. A lot of people who think they might have it don't. A true sociopath/psychopath/APD does not question their behavior, and if need be will rationalize it.
2007-10-29 05:43:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
most disorders of that sort are learned behaviors, it is how they have been raised in other words. a good many of them see the world thru paranoid eyes, certain that the entire world is simply out to get them and there is no safe place anywhere. Pity them, most never grow out of such an upbringing.
2007-10-29 05:35:34 · answer #6 · answered by essentiallysolo 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋