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Can a person diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder lead a normal life?
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What are common symptoms associated with antisocial personality disorder?
Common symptoms of antisocial personality disorder include a lack of empathy or regard for others' feelings, disregard for social norms and rules, impulsivity, deceitfulness, and a history of aggression or criminal behavior. Individuals with this disorder may engage in manipulative or exploitative behavior without remorse.
What is the difference between a borderline personality disorder and a personality disorder?
In sharp contrast to Anti-Social Personality Disorder (sociopathy) is another personality disorder, termed Borderline Personality Disorder, in which the problem is the opposite of the problem of the sociopath: the sympathetic nervous system of person with BPD responds too easily, too strongly, and way too often!Meanwhile, in the true sociopath/psychopath, the fight-or-flight reaction is very brief, extremely difficult to sustain even in an emergency, and does not touch certain organs as it ought to do; sociopaths are chronically "bored" because they are literally half-asleep most of the time. (Even though they tend to look awake and behave in an alert, intense manner.)Additionally, although individuals with Borderline Personality tend to use manipulation in various forms such as malingering, these are usually intended to gain the concern or sympathy of perceived caregivers. In persons with Antisocial Personality Disorder, deceit and manipulation are used to gain material gratification such as money, gifts, etc. Also, personality features specific to APD, such as an extreme sense of entitlement, egocentricity, narcissism, and exaggerated self-assurance are typically absent in persons with BPD.
What is childhood disintegrative disorder?
Children who seem normal at first but who begin to show autistic behavior as they get older might be diagnosed with "childhood disintegrative disorder"
How do personality disorder differ from personality traits?
I think you mean personality traits and clinical disorders. clinical disorders are not absolute but exist on a spectrum. If a person exhibits a certain number of specific symptoms over a specified period of time, they will receive a clinical diagnosis. having personality traits means that a person exhibits a portion of what it takes to be diagnosed with a personality disorder. for example, a person can have narcissistic traits (we all do, actually) but not have narcissistic personality disorder.
Is stealing a mental disorder?
Generally, no. Stealing for profit is a typical, though unsavory, normal, human behavior. If the stealing is compulsive, however, with no regard to value, and with no recognition that the act constitutes theft, it is a kind of hoarding behavior associated with certain personality disorders, most common are Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Boderline Personality Disorder, Schizoid Personality Disorder, as well as certain neurological injuries.
When do personality traits become a disorders?
Personality traits become disorders when they significantly deviate from cultural norms and cause distress or impairment in important areas of functioning, such as work and relationships. Disorders like borderline personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, and avoidant personality disorder involve extreme and maladaptive versions of common personality traits.
What is normal behavior for a cat?
lazy loveable and antisocial
When was Alfred Hitchcock diagnosed with ASD?
He was never diagnosed so it is debatable if he really suffered from ASD. It is completly possible that he may have had personality quirks and regular, everyday obessions like other 'normal' people.
How can you prevent MPD?
Child Trauma is the main cause of Multiple Personality Disorder/Dissociative Identity Disorder. Therefore, you can most likely prevent it in most cases by just being a normal parent to your child.
If a person EEG and MRI on their brain comes back normal do this mean that they do not have bipolar disorders?
No, unfortunately there is no objective test for bipolar disorder, it can only be diagnosed by subjective observation of symptoms.
Why are some teens aren't involved in antisocial behaviour?
Because we're normal.
What is the difference between NPD and other personality disorders?
The classification of Axis II personality disorders -- deeply ingrained, maladaptive, lifelong behavior patterns -- in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, fourth edition, text revision [American Psychiatric Association. DSM-IV-TR, Washington, 2000] -- or the DSM-IV-TR for short -- has come under sustained and serious criticism from its inception in 1952. The DSM IV-TR adopts a categorical approach, postulating that personality disorders are "qualitatively distinct clinical syndromes" (p. 689). This is widely doubted. Even the distinction made between "normal" and "disordered" personalities is increasingly being rejected. The "diagnostic thresholds" between normal and abnormal are either absent or weakly supported. The polythetic form of the DSM's Diagnostic Criteria -- only a subset of the criteria is adequate grounds for a diagnosis -- generates unacceptable diagnostic heterogeneity. In other words, people diagnosed with the same personality disorder may share only one criterion or none. The DSM fails to clarify the exact relationship between Axis II and Axis I disorders and the way chronic childhood and developmental problems interact with personality disorders. The differential diagnoses are vague and the personality disorders are insufficiently demarcated. The result is excessive co-morbidity (multiple Axis II diagnoses). The DSM contains little discussion of what distinguishes normal character (personality), personality traits, or personality style (Millon) -- from personality disorders. A dearth of documented clinical experience regarding both the disorders themselves and the utility of various treatment modalities. Numerous personality disorders are "not otherwise specified" -- a catchall, basket "category". Cultural bias is evident in certain disorders (such as the Antisocial and the Schizotypal). The emergence of dimensional alternatives to the categorical approach is acknowledged in the DSM-IV-TR itself: "An alternative to the categorical approach is the dimensional perspective that Personality Disorders represent maladaptive variants of personality traits that merge imperceptibly into normality and into one another" (p.689) The following issues -- long neglected in the DSM -- are likely to be tackled in future editions as well as in current research: The longitudinal course of the disorder(s) and their temporal stability from early childhood onwards; The genetic and biological underpinnings of personality disorder(s); The development of personality psychopathology during childhood and its emergence in adolescence; The interactions between physical health and disease and personality disorders; The effectiveness of various treatments -- talk therapies as well as psychopharmacology. To answer your question, it depends on the personality disorder. NPD, or Narcissistic Personality Disorder, is part of a group of personality disorders, called "Cluster B". The others in the group are Borderline Personality Disorder, Histrionic Personality Disorder, and Antisocial Personality Disorder, which is sometimes also referred to as Sociopathy, or Psychopathy (I, personally, think they are all distinctly different in many ways). NPD, as well as the other PDs in the group, co-mingle frequently, so you will see remnants of each personality structure present in all of them. For example, my ex-husband is a Narcissist, but he also has Borderline and Antisocial/Psychopathic tendencies, as does my father (lucky me!) I also have a sister who is more Borderline, but is very self-centered (Narcissism), and is also drug dependent. Thank God I'm doing as well as I am - it's from studying psychology that I learned so much about the dynamics of personality structure, so I could apply this knowledge to figuring out my crazy family! It also helped me to figure out my own inner dynamics. Anyway, I hope this answers your question. In my opinion, all personality disorders have narcissism as the basic foundation; it's just more prevalent in the Cluster B disorders.
