Antisocial Personality Disorder
In a world full of fears, perhaps the worst fear a human being could have is to be afraid of his fellow man. The person that should be most feared is the one that has Anti-Social Personality Disorder or in laymen's terms the psychopath. The psychopath has probably the most deviant mind that exists and treatment is not very successful because there is no a cure or drug to control it. The first thing one must consider when attempting to treat the psychopath is are they willing to change? The second thing to consider is how do we help them to change? In my opinion, cognitive-behavioral therapy is the answer in some cases.
The psychopath has a combination of other mental illnesses that are incurred in childhood as a result of heredity, trauma, and the lack of emotional development. The lack of moral or emotional development is what gives a psychopath a lack of empathy for other people's feelings which enables them to be deceitful without feeling bad about what they do. They have an underdeveloped emotional system. In a way, the psychopath is "emotionally retarded”. Psychopath’s behavior problems start as a child and have links to heredity. Such as a family with a pre-disposition for committing crimes, alcoholic parents that do crimes, extreme violence and abuses, irresponsible behavior that persists, and parents that do not discipline. The child that will eventually be a psychopath will exhibit certain behaviors that show feelings of inadequacy and shame and because of this, they are teased and made fun of. One of the characteristics of a child that will become a future psychopath is being incapable of following the rules and thus disregard for rules. The youngster will skip school, bully, steal, torment animals, and run away from home. At an earlier age than their peer group, the child will smoke, drink alcohol, do drugs, and become sexually active.
The diagnosis of Anti-Social Personality Disorder is not used for people under the age of 18. Dictionaries define a...
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