Disorder Anti-Social Personality

The disturbance antisocial personality, like other personality disorders, is a pattern of behavior and experience that affect the long-term operation and causes distress or disability.
People with a disorder antisocial personality do not follow the norms of society, are misleading and intimidating in relationships and do not respect the rights of others. Individuals with this personality type may be involved in criminal activities without repenting of their harmful actions. Can be impulsive, irresponsible and sometimes violent. This disorder is much more common and more apparent in men than in women.
People with a disorder antisocial personality, in general, do not value "play by the rules"? only do so if they are threatened with punishment. This attitude leads to a tendency to exploit others, since there is a use of correctness or of other good heart and an attitude of indifference or even cheeky about their victims. A person with this disorder have little or no capacity for intimacy with another person and any lasting relationships will probably involve some degree of abuse or neglect. However, these people are sometimes fascinating and can be good actors who use lies and distortions of the truth to maintain relationships. In some cases the disorder antisocial personality no other purpose beyond the pleasure to deceive or harm others.
People with a disorder antisocial personality does not seem to care about anyone but themselves. They may be able to understand the emotions of others but do not feel any shame or guilt for the pain they may be causing. Instead, use your knowledge of the weaknesses of others for favors or to manipulate a result. A person with this disorder usually does not take responsibility for their own suffering and will blame others when things go wrong. Many individuals suffer, since they deceive themselves and live lives without many of the pleasures that are enjoyed by people who have a greater ability to have relationships and mutual satisfactory.
People with this personality disorder may also have other mental health problems such as chronic boredom or irritability, psychosomatic symptoms, gambling addiction, abuse alcohol or other substances and a variety of mood disorders or anxious. Have a higher risk of suicide and a significant number had behavior problems or attention deficit disorder in childhood.
The disturbance antisocial personality is probably caused by a combination of factors:
• Environmental Influences: A chaotic family life with lack of supervision contributes to the development of this personality disorder, which may be more common in cases where the community does not provide support or provides scant reward for positive behavior. In some situations, there may even be a strengthening of sociopathic behavior.
• Genetic factors (hereditary): Researchers have identified certain physiological responses that may be specific to people with a disorder antisocial personality. For example, these individuals have a comparatively uniform response to stress, seems to be less anxious than the average, and seem to have more difficulty remain alert during the day. Also present a "reflection of surprise" weak, ie, a low involuntary response to loud noise. This relative insensitivity can affect learning ability with the punishments and rewards.
• Brain Structure: The frontal lobe, the area of ​​the brain that controls judgment and planning, also appears to be different in people with a disorder antisocial personality. Some researchers have found changes in the volume of brain structures that mediate violent behavior. Thus, people with this type of brain function may have more difficulty restrain their impulses, which may be responsible for the trend towards a more aggressive behavior.
Treatment
Multiple techniques have been proposed for the treatment of psychotherapy disturbance antisocial personality. In younger individuals, the family or group psychotherapy can help change destructive patterns of behavior, teaching new skills and professional relationship and strengthen the social support person. Psychotherapy can also help a person with this disorder learn to be more sensitive to others' feelings and encourage new ways of thinking productive and socially acceptable in relation to the objectives and intentions. Cognitive therapy seeks to modify the sociopathic ways of thinking, while behavioral therapy uses reward and punishment to promote more adaptive behavior.
In some cases, symptoms may be treated with medication. Selective inhibitors of serotonin reuptake (SSRI / SSRIs) such as fluoxetine and sertraline may decrease irritability and aggressiveness. These drugs are particularly useful in the case of presence of anxiety and / or depression.
There are many questions about the utility of any of these interventions in a condition in which, by definition, people who are affected not recognize they have a problem. Treatment is more likely to be successful if started early on in life, but the patterns of thought and behavior rooted in a long time are hard to change. Moreover, the longer the person living with this personality style is less interested in taking responsibility for change. In some people, the tendency for aggressiveness and irritability decreases with age, but certain personality traits may persist.
Often, the only protection for victims of anti-social behavior is the criminal justice system. In rare cases, the correction systems (jails / prisons) provide opportunities for treatment or rehabilitation but, in general, these environments, where there is abundance of antisocial individuals, only promote an anti-social behavior.
Prevention
There is no way to prevent this problem. An improvement in the person's social environment can reduce the severity of the problem, especially if changes are made early in life.