Antisocial
Antisocial Personality Disorder
Psychopathy and Sociopathy
Anti-Social Personality Disorder is the most common of the three types and is found in as many as 75 percent of the prison population . Alcoholism is a contributing cause or consequence of being antisocial. People that are both antisocial and an alcoholic are prone to violent behavior. Some of the most common symptoms are failure to conform to social norms, deceitfulness, impulsivity, or failure to plan ahead, irritability, aggressiveness, consistent irresponsibility, lack of remorse, and reckless disregard for safety of oneself or others. There are also two types of disorder that are link to this mental disorder and they are Psychopathy, and Sociopathy. (O'Connor).
Psychopathic disorder is the least common but most severe of all three types. It's found in less than one percent of our population. There are many characteristics of a psychopath, and
they are: egocentricity, impulsivity, irresponsibility, shallow emotions, lack of empathy, guilt or remorse; psychological lying; manipulativeness; and the persistent violation of social norms and expectations. The psychopaths are people who will over react over little things. (O'Connor)
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The crimes of psychopaths are usually stone cold killings with no apparent reason for their crimes. They take what they want and do what they please without the slightest sense of guilt or regret. Most societies would regard them as criminals whereas warlike societies might
deem them heroes or leaders. The chemical Serotonin is linked to behavior but it is not the major cause of the disorder. (O'Connor)
There are four different types of psychopaths. Distempered psychopaths: People, who suffered from this disorder, are mostly men. They seem to fly into a rage easily and more often than thee other types of psychopaths. These men have very strong sex drives; they have strong
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