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......
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