How many people in the united states suffer from antisocial personality disorder?
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APD is estimated to affect 3% of males and 1% of females in the general United States population. Mental health professionals may diagnose 3%-30% of the population in clinical settings as having the disorder. The percentages may be even higher among prison inmates or persons in treatment for substance abuse. By some estimates, three-quarters of the prison population may meet the diagnostic criteria for APD.\n\n\nhttp://health.enotes.com/mental-disorders-encyclopedia/antisocial-personality-disorder
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Did you come up with this in a clinical setting when you were reevaluating the diagnosis given to your clients from their previous caregivers? (Rhetorical question)\n\n\nSeriously though what is with this talk of getting away with it? Ultimately it does not matter. If a person acts like a jerk they get treated like a jerk. I am unaware of any pretext under which people "get away with being jerks". Could you maybe cite some examples? In the USA there is major stigma against mental illness and we get away with nothing! Not only that public opinion uses half truths and outright ignorance to persecuted people with mental disorders. They don't have compassion or understanding for the people who are harmless! Let alone make accommodation for the ones who are out of control! Just for example a person with antisocial personality disorder would most definitely have the characteristic of acting like a jerk, so in what PC dreamworld would a term like antisocial personality disorder elicit sympathy from anyone, and then cause them to look the other way at that behavior?\n\nThere are a whole lot of people out there serving hard time in prison because of their personality disorders. And guess what? They belong there.\n\nSo in closing, I really don't have a clue what you are talking about.
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I believe the statistic is something like 50% (I could be wrong on that) of Americans are on some type of psychtropic drug. They also say if everyone around you is nuts, take a hard look at yourself.
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Well, there is OCD and OCPD  Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder.  OCD can ruin ones life.  OCPD is just what we would call a "quirk".  I suffer from both and don't think it will ever go away.  You learn how to deal with it as you would have to with any other disability.  Look up "Cognitive Therapy" in a search engine for a better understanding of how it works.
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A little-known mental disorder marked by episodes of unwarranted anger is more common than previously thought. Depending upon how broadly it's defined, intermittent explosive disorder (IED) affects as many as 7.3 percent of adults — 11.5-16 million Americans — in their lifetimes. The study is based on data from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication, a nationally representative, face-to-face household survey of 9,282 U.S. adults, conducted in 2001-2003.\n\nPeople with IED may attack others and their possessions, causing bodily injury and property damage. Typically beginning in the early teens, the disorder often precedes — and may predispose for — later depression, anxiety and substance abuse disorders. Nearly 82 percent of those with IED also had one of these other disorders, yet only 28.8 percent ever received treatment for their anger.
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50% of the normal individuals experience depersonlisation and in psychiatric population it is much more common 80%.In normal indiviuals it happens in the context of psychological distress. I others there is usually a comorbid psychiatric disoders. So treat them first.Antidepressants and psychological treatments might be helpful.Contact a psychiatrist
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It's called being a bad person. If it's a disorder then most of our country is afflicted.
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Census 2000, 281.4 million people were counted in the United States — 143.4 million of whom were female and 138.1 million male.
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Only the ones with multiple personality disorder do.
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i would say highly populated cities, like NYC. i did a survey for a psych course, out of 25,000 kids under the age of 5 in my neighborhood, about 22,0000 needed childhood intervention for speech. of those 22,000 only 16,000 were enrolled (lack of early childhood intervention schools)
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A very high percentage of the homeless population are those that suffer from mental illness, another high percentage is women and children who have been overcome by situational poverty. And men who have been over come by situational poverty. God bless. Do some research and you will find a vast amount of information on the subject.
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Hi I also suffer from NPD (Narcissistic Personality Disorder).\n\nIt took me a very long time to get to know that something is wrong with me (and not e.g. with the others). I was constantly searching all over English and Czech speaking internet (I'm from the Czech Republic) and I was searching in all possible psychological and psychotherapeutic books.\n\nThe best I have found so far were books from James F. Masterson, a New York City researcher, psychiatrist and psychotherapist. I have visited him also personally on 60 Sutton Place South, Manhattan, NYC, but I hadn't enough money to afford therapy by him, his affiliates or his followers. He is head of www.mastersoninstitute.org\n\nLuckily he publishes his therapeutic approach and it was helpful for me even without a therapist. I'm still going back to his books and still finding something new (within me). You can have a look at the content of his books at www.amazon.com, search for James F Masterson in books section.\n\nMedication is of no use, except you develop a depression or some psychosis, it will help you get back into life (and into NPD again).\n\nHope this might help you.\n  Martin D
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Definitely. It is the second most common problem treated by psychiatrists. No. 1 is addicition. See a psychiatrist; he/she should be able to help you overcome the problem.
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Statistics And Facts About Anxiety Disorders \nAnxiety Disorders are the most common mental illness in the U.S. with 19.1 million (13.3%) of the adult U.S. population (ages 18-54) affected. \nAccording to "The Economic Burden of Anxiety Disorders," a study commissioned by the ADAA and based on data gathered by the association and published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, anxiety disorders cost the U.S. more than $42 billion a year, almost one third of the $148 billion total mental health bill for the U.S. \nMore than $22.84 billion of those costs are associated with the repeated use of healthcare services, as those with anxiety disorders seek relief for symptoms that mimic physical illnesses. \nPeople with an anxiety disorder are three-to-five times more likely to go to the doctor and six times more likely to be hospitalized for psychiatric disorders than non-sufferers. \n\nNUMBERS AND PERCENTAGES REFER TO ADULT U.S. POPULATION AFFECTED.\nGeneralized Anxiety Disorder: 4 million, 2.8%.\n\n\nWomen are twice as likely to be afflicted than men. \nVery likely to be comorbid with other disorders.
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Unfortunately there is no easy answer with today's paranoia. While sexual offenses are certainly horrible, society seems to be okay with the 1.2 to 1.5 million children homeless on any given night in America. They say that up to 1 in 5 children are sexually abused, 95% of which are crimes committed by friends, family, and professionals (clergy, doctors, therapists, etc.) If 1 in 5 children are abused, that means that 1 in 14,400,000 will be abused. Again, primarily by a known abuser. The odds of being struck by lightening are 1 in 600,000 so a child has a 24% chance of being struck by lightening.\n\nEveryone deserves a second chance. The Department of Justice shows a study indicating that 5.3% of sex offenders reoffend within 3 years and as the years pass, the recidicism rates decrease. Also, 2 other important aspects to consider: 1). Many if not most sexual offenders have wives and children to support and those family members should not be required to suffer. 2). Sexual offenses come in many many forms. Not all sexual offenders are child molestors. Many involve consensual sex between youth of a few years apart in age. Even today, there are children on the registries as young as 12 years old (a child?!) Many involve false accusations. (Many people say plead innocent if you are but, most cannot afford the costs yet are not poor enough to qualify for low quality court appointed attorney. When the justice system charges someone, they also continously threaten the absolute worst. Most choose to take probation instead of a chance at 30 years in prison.) Many sexual offenses involve no physical touching of anyone. \n\nBack to securing employment, I have to say that it is next to impossible unless you find a compassionate person willing to forgive. Of course, we are a nation that perports forgiveness (I guess Christians have forgotten all about that) yet the reality is that we do not forgive. We seem to thrive on watching 'lesser' humans suffer. That, to me, is far less admirable than a man who admits his crimes and weaknesses. \n\nSociety seems to not want ex-offenders to work of live anywhere. It has created a subclass much like the black people had it prior to the recent freedoms given to them. It does not seem to matter even if it is a ditch digger, ticket taker, WalMart warehouse, etc. It would seem that anytime an ex-offender is found working, someone makes a fuss. \n\nSociety, due to the media frenzy to sell compassion drawing audiences even if the media exagerates or does not report all sides, has effectively shunned ex-offenders into no chance of a life. This, unfortunately, will only lead to more crimes. When the ex-offender becomes homeless, he may be required to register on a very regular basis. It's no surprise that many hopeless ex-offenders simply dissappear. \n\nSociety seems to be content with building more prisons even though we have the highest rate of incarcerations than any other industrial society. Why not up it from 2,000,000 prisoners to 6,000,000? Why stop there? Why not build concentration camps so prisoners can make all the things that the upper classes require to live ever so comfortably? Why not criminalize more things? Maybe bring back prohibition since the war on alcohol can be just as successful as the war on drugs. Bring in the military too.  Currently, Americans owe in excess of $30,000 for every man, woman, and child. Why not triple that to $90,000? I am okay with that as I have no children who would have to be responsible for that debt even though I think money could be better spent on education, national health (we tend to wait until we are sick instead of preventative analysis...well except those who can afford it...just ignore those 1.2 to 1.5 homeless children), global compassion as opposed to terroristic threats, maybe keeping some of our own money before buying off other nations and then sending them our jobs anyway, perhaps another form of pay-off, etc. \n\nNo, the best jobs
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Do you know which disorder?\n\nTest yourself first then tell me!\nhttp://www.4degreez.com/misc/personality_disorder_test.mv
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Narcissistic Personality Disorder: "The essential feature of Narcissistic PD is a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy that begins by early adulthood and is present in a variety of contexts." "Individuals in this disorder have a grandiose sense of self-importance....they believe they are superior, special, unique and expect others to recognize them as such....individuals in this disorder require excessive admiration...Their self-esteem is almost invariably very fragile."\nundue dwelling on one's own self or attainments, love of or sexual desire for one's own body\n\nPsychopath/Antisocial Personality Disorder: "The essential feature of Antisocial PD is a pervasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others that begins in childhood or early adolescence and continues into adulthood."\n"a mentally ill or unstable person; especially: one who has a poorly balanced personality and does not feel guilty about not living up to normal moral and social responsibilities". \nNote: the term psychopath is not generally used in the Mental Health Field - it is a layman's term- Most psychopaths are diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder- a good portion of your serial killers/mass murders are Psychopaths/antisocial.