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Antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) is a personality disorder defined by a chronic pattern of behavior that disregards the rights and well-being of others. People with ASPD often exhibit behavior that conflicts with social norms, leading to issues with interpersonal relationships, employment, and legal matters.
‘Antisocial’ isn’t the same as being introverted or preferring to spend time alone. It's a serious personality disorder that's treatable, but not curable.
Conduct disorder (CD) is a mental disorder diagnosed in childhood or adolescence that presents itself through a repetitive and persistent pattern of behavior that includes theft, lies, physical violence that may lead to destruction, and reckless breaking of rules, [2] in which the basic rights of others or major age-appropriate norms are violated.
Personality disorder, unspecified (includes "character neurosis" and "pathological personality"). Mixed and other personality disorders (defined as conditions that are often troublesome but do not demonstrate the specific pattern of symptoms in the named disorders).
In the context of mental health, comorbidity frequently refers to the concurrent existence of mental disorders, for example, the co-occurrence of depressive and anxiety disorders. The concept of multimorbidity is related to comorbidity but is different in its definition and approach, focusing on the presence of multiple diseases or conditions ...
Malignant narcissism is not a diagnostic category defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders . Rather, it is a subcategory of narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) [2] which could also include traits of antisocial personality disorder or paranoid personality disorder.
Conduct disorder in childhood, and Alcohol use disorder were thought to have been frequently comorbid with Sadistic personality disorder. [2] [4] Researchers had difficulty distinguishing sadistic personality disorder from the other personality disorders due to high levels of comorbidity, hence another reason why it was eventually removed. [2]
Externalizing disorders, however, are also manifested in adulthood. For example, alcohol- and substance-related disorders and antisocial personality disorder are adult externalizing disorders. [1] Externalizing psychopathology is associated with antisocial behavior, which is different from and often confused for asociality.