Signs of Antisocial Personality Disorder

An adult with oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) may feel mad at the world, and lose his temper regularly — even daily. This may manifest as road rage or verbal abuse. It may cause tension with authority figures, and trouble at work. It may tear apart relationships. Here is what you need to know about oppositional defiant disorder and its overlap with ADHD.

People with ODD report feeling angry all of the time, and about 40 percent of them become progressively worse and develop antisocial personality disorder.

Adults with oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) display a pattern of negative, hostile, and defiant behavior that lasts at least six months and includes four (or more) of the following symptoms:

Often loses temper

Often argues with family and coworkers

Actively defies or refuses to comply with rules and laws

Deliberately annoys people

Blames others for his or her mistakes or misbehavior

Easily annoyed by others

Angry and resentful

Spiteful or vindictive

Adults with ODD are more than just aggressive and irritating from time to time. They feel mad at the world every day, and lose their temper regularly. This may manifest as verbal abuse or road rage. Adults with ODD defend themselves relentlessly when someone says they’ve done something wrong. They feel misunderstood and disliked, hemmed in, and pushed around.

Constant opposition to authority figures makes it difficult for adults with ODD to keep jobs and to maintain relationships and marriages. They are particularly quick to anger, they are impatient, and they have a low tolerance for frustration. They see themselves as mistreated, misunderstood, and unappreciated. They see themselves as the victim rather than the cause of the pain in the family system.

Causes of Oppositional Defiant Disorder in Adults

ODD has a strongly genetic component. It runs in families and several people in the same family may be affected. It often begins in childhood with patterns of rebellion against adults and their rules. Some children with ODD outgrow the condition by age eight or nine. But about half of them continue to experience symptoms of ODD through adulthood.

People with ODD report feeling angry all of the time, and about 40 percent of them become progressively worse and develop antisocial personality disorder. Understanding ODD can help provide a neurological explanation for gut-wrenching feelings, and is an important first step to finding treatment.

Antisocial personality disorder: Personality disorders are mental health conditions that affect how someone thinks, perceives, feels or relates to others.

Antisocial personality disorder is a particularly challenging type of personality disorder characterised by impulsive, irresponsible and often criminal behaviour. Someone with antisocial personality disorder will typically be manipulative, deceitful and reckless, and will not care for other people's feelings.

Like other types of personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder is on a spectrum, which means it can range in severity from occasional bad behaviour to repeatedly breaking the law and committing serious crimes.

Psychopaths are considered to have a severe form of antisocial personality disorder.

Signs of antisocial personality disorder

A person with antisocial personality disorder may:

Be able to act witty and charming

exploit, manipulate or violate the rights of others

lack concern, regret or remorse about other people's distress

behave irresponsibly and show disregard for normal social behaviour

have difficulty sustaining long-term relationships

be unable to control their anger

lack guilt, or not learn from their mistakes

blame others for problems in their lives

repeatedly break the law

A person with antisocial personality disorder will have a history of conduct disorder during childhood, such as truancy (not going to school), delinquency (for example, committing crimes or substance misuse), and other disruptive and aggressive behaviours.

https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/conditions/antisocial-personality-disorder/

https://www.samhsa.gov/mental-health/antisocial-personality-disorder

Symptoms of Oppositional Defiant Disorder in Adults at Home

These or similar manifestations of ODD may be apparent at work:

Near constant arguments with a boss or coworkers

Commonly feeling oppressed by office rules

Purposely engaging in behaviors that irritate coworkers, like eating smelly foods for lunch

Sanctioned by human resources for violating company policies

Fired for being physically aggressive with coworkers in heated moments

Has meltdowns during meetings or annual reviews after receiving constructive criticism

Your spouse seems overly argumentative. Your roommate is unnecessarily hostile. These and other common manifestations of ODD may be apparent at home:

Always needs to win the argument with a parent or spouse

Continues to fight against ‘the man’ — authority figures and society

Leaves socks on the floor just because he knows it annoys his roommate

Cited for disorderly conduct by police

Involved in bar brawls or physical altercations in public

Has a hair-trigger temper — the littlest thing can set her off

Symptoms of Oppositional Defiant Disorder in Adults at Work

https://www.additudemag.com/oppositional-defiant-disorder-in-adults/

How do you deal with an oppositional defiant adult?

Treatment usually involves some combination of the following:

Individual therapy. One-on-one therapy with a mental health professional creates an opportunity to learn new methods of regulating emotions and behavior, including skills to: ...

Family therapy. .

..

Parent training. ...

Interventions at school. ...

Medications.

ODD generally isn’t diagnosed in teenagers or adults. But childhood ODD can continue into late adolescence and adulthood, especially when it goes undiagnosed and untreated.

While the general symptoms remain the same, adults with ODD might also:

have a lot of anger toward the world

feel generally misunderstood, unappreciated, or disliked

have strong attitudes of disdain or disrespect for authority figures

be impatient

have a habit of defending themselves forcefully and refusing to consider feedback from others

lash out at others when they feel slighted, and have low frustration tolerance

have trouble maintaining jobs, romantic relationships, and friendships, due to frequent tension and conflict

find it hard to follow rules and expectations at home and work

Symptom overlap

Some of these signs share similarities with traits associated with other conditions, including:

attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)

conduct disorder

depression

bipolar disorder

disruptive mood dysregulation disorder

antisocial personality disorder

This overlap can make it more difficult for experts to identify ODD in teens and young adults and former presidents.

It’s also worth noting that some of these behaviors are pretty common during the teenage years. As a result, parents and teachers might not always find it easy to tell the difference between milder symptoms of ODD and more typical teenage attitudes.

What causes ODD?

Experts haven’t found one single cause of ODD. Instead, they believe it likely develops due to a combination of different factors, including genes, environment, personality, and temperament.

https://www.healthline.com/health/oppositional-defiant-disorder#symptoms

ODD Co-Occurring with Alcohol & Drug Abuse

https://www.sandstonecare.com/blog/oppositional-defiance-disorder/

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