Antisocial Personality Features

In modern day, we encounter many instances where people behave against the rule of law and disregard many of the other social norms. Such encounters may put these persons in trouble and they will also disrupt the livelihood of the others who live in close association with them. These individuals may not be able to fulfill their duties to the family, work place or else to the society as a whole and would often resort to lies, violence and other such behaviors in carrying out these acts. In mental health, person who compulsively undertakes to so such antisocial acts can be termed under the category, ‘antisocial personality disorders in pschyiatry

A person with an antisocial personality disorder can be a good charmer as well as a liar. They will use their wit to manipulate people and lure them in order to achieve their objectives. These individuals will often show disregard to right or wrong and would perceive themselves as doing the right thing. The characteristic feature in such manipulation and lies would be its persistent nature than being isolated incidences.

Antisocial personalities often invade the rights of the others and they may resort to abuse of vulnerable groups of people such as children. They will not respect the rights of others and often would resort to intimidation of others in making their moves.

Another feature of this personality is their action based on impulsiveness and this would lead to many negative developments in one’s life. Their fondness to violence and aggression would make them resort to harming others in order to achieve what they want and due to the super imposed agitation in their life, the outcomes of such aggressive behaviors could become fatal as well.

When considering the relationships enjoyed by these individuals, it could be said that, they resort to abusive relationships as giving respect and performing their duties seems not to be part of their thinking process. Therefore, the relationships enjoyed by these individuals would be unstable and poor and often would end up in separation.

These individuals can be seen changing their jobs rather frequently as the employers may show unhappiness of their conduct of irresponsibility and disregard to work rules.

Apart from the above mentioned signs and symptoms, a person with antisocial personality disorder may often be found on the other side of the law and would frequently get in to trouble with the law enforcement authorities. The tendency to do drug and alcohol abuse would increase their vulnerability in performing antisocial acts and therefore, a intervention in correcting or rehabilitating such individuals would have to aim at relieving these elements prior to any constructive intervention.