Antisocial Personality Disorder vs. Schizoid Personality Disorder
Antisocial personality Disorder vs. Schizoid Personality Disorder
Patients with antisocial personality disorder (often referred to as psychopaths) are frequently in conflict with social, moral, or legal norms. They may also demonstrate behaviours that show disregard towards others, such as lying, manipulating and breaking the law. Additionally these people are often reckless, irresponsible, lack a sense of personal responsibility and show little to no remorse. Therefore they mostly blame other people for their problems. They have no 'friends' unless they can use them in some way. People affected by this disorder appear charming, intelligent and fun, but on a superficial level. They rarely seek help voluntarily, unless it is to avoid persecution. Usually the antisocial behaviour is evident by the time of adolescence (or earlier), such as poor grades, disruptive behaviour, frequent fights, and harming animals. A similar but less extreme disorder is the schizoid personality disorder. Just like in the antisocial disorder, schizoid individuals have no desire to enjoy personal relations. Schizoids often appear indifferent to the praise or criticism of others a trait which is also present in a patient with the antisocial disorder. What’s more, they usually choose a solitary lifestyle. Both show emotional coldness, detachment, or flattened affect. But unlike a psychopath who often engages in promiscuous sexual activity, the schizoid (in general) has no interest in having a sexual partners. Schizoids also portray no superficial charm or a grandiose sense of self-worth and in general avoid any altercations with the law. A person affected by the schizoid personality disorder feels confused about how to respond to normal social cues and generally have very little to say. Psychopaths on the other hand, are very skilled at manipulation there for they understand the human psyche (although not their own), they have no issues adapting different personas in order to meet their
Patients with antisocial personality disorder (often referred to as psychopaths) are frequently in conflict with social, moral, or legal norms. They may also demonstrate behaviours that show disregard towards others, such as lying, manipulating and breaking the law. Additionally these people are often reckless, irresponsible, lack a sense of personal responsibility and show little to no remorse. Therefore they mostly blame other people for their problems. They have no 'friends' unless they can use them in some way. People affected by this disorder appear charming, intelligent and fun, but on a superficial level. They rarely seek help voluntarily, unless it is to avoid persecution. Usually the antisocial behaviour is evident by the time of adolescence (or earlier), such as poor grades, disruptive behaviour, frequent fights, and harming animals. A similar but less extreme disorder is the schizoid personality disorder. Just like in the antisocial disorder, schizoid individuals have no desire to enjoy personal relations. Schizoids often appear indifferent to the praise or criticism of others a trait which is also present in a patient with the antisocial disorder. What’s more, they usually choose a solitary lifestyle. Both show emotional coldness, detachment, or flattened affect. But unlike a psychopath who often engages in promiscuous sexual activity, the schizoid (in general) has no interest in having a sexual partners. Schizoids also portray no superficial charm or a grandiose sense of self-worth and in general avoid any altercations with the law. A person affected by the schizoid personality disorder feels confused about how to respond to normal social cues and generally have very little to say. Psychopaths on the other hand, are very skilled at manipulation there for they understand the human psyche (although not their own), they have no issues adapting different personas in order to meet their