Kleptomania

These individuals tend to demonstrate a side of themselves that is characterized as crazy or perilous behavior; however, to these individuals, it is just their personality. Numerous researchers have discovered what distinguishes an insane person from a mental case is antisocial behavior. James Fallon a professor had spent an entire career studying how our brains affect our behavior when his research suddenly turned personal. While studying brain scans of several family members, he discovered that one perfectly matched a pattern he’d found in the brains of serial killers someone in his family was a psychopath. He found “A mental case also known as an antisocial behavior is person suffering from neuroses” (Fallon, 2013). Studies have shown psychopathic tendencies emerge because of one accident. This could be from a traumatic head injury which cause changes in the brain by damaging the prefrontal cortex. This part of the brain has everything to do with, personality, decision making, and social behavior. If this is damaged, we notice a change in personality which means they slowly develop a new personality. Fallon stated that “80% of who we are is determined by our inborn biology and the structure of our brain” (Fallon,

People who suffer from personality disorders often display deviant behavior. The mental illness itself is not deviant. They typically have problems with social skills, mood swings, emotional states, and are often unable to maintain healthy, stable relationships. Many sufferers do not possess the capability to have genuine emotions, including empathy for others. A personality disorder is the basis of many circumstances of maladaptive behavior including substance abuse, self-harm, suicide, and criminality.

Common signs may include Depression, OCD, anxieties, Eating disorders, phobias etc...Common behaviours as a result of this may include self harm, panic attacks and suicidal thoughts.

Answer: Antisocial Personality Disorder (King, 2016); psychological disorder with the individual possibly having psychopathic tendencies

Strange behavior is another one of the possible crack abuse signs. People who have a crack addiction will go to great lengths to obtain the drug. They may start experiencing financial problems because they are spending so much money

Antisocial Personality Disorder or as Psychologists refer to as Psychopathic Personality disorder is known to inflict criminal behavior. The subject experiencing this

This disorder is characterized by deceitfulness and manipulation for one’s own advantage. People with this disorder are high-risk takers and are impulsive (Halter, 2014).

A Schizoaffective disorder is a mental illness. The symptoms of this illness include having strange or unusual thoughts or perceptions, paranoid thoughts and ideas, delusion (i.e. having false, fixed beliefs), hallucination, such as hearing voices, and experience disorganized thinking (i.e. unclear and confused thoughts). They may have manic episodes or a sudden increase in energy and behavioural displays that are out of character. They may become irritable and have poor temper control, and even have thoughts of suicide or homicide. Their speaking style can be erratic, and difficult of others to understand, they may have problems with attention and memory. Their behaviour will be at extreme ends of the normal spectrum (catatonic behaviour)

The next symptom is feeling inappropriate and intense anger or trouble controlling anger such as constantly getting into fights or constantly feeling anger, stress related paranoia and severe dissociative symptoms for brief periods of time. These “moods often only last a few hours however they can overtake the feelings of well-being that a patient does have resulting in unstable mental state. (DSM, 2000)They are usually brought on by a patient if they feel a lover or close friend is being neglectful. They may feel intense guilt afterwards leading to the feeling that they are evil or bad. (DSM, 2000)

These symptoms can be seen as similar to borderline personality disorder and Schizophrenia, making it quite difficult to correctly diagnose a person with their corresponding disorder. People who may be questioning themselves as to whether to not they have this disorder, they should take in mind what they are thinking towards others, how they feel in certain situations and if they have the ability to trust anyone in general. Also, individuals with PPD can appear cold as they tend to avoid being close with others and may even behave in a hostile, sarcastic and angrily manner. Most times, people who can be classified with this disorder do not always realize that they are experiencing abnormal behavior and that it is normal to be suspicious

Psychiatric disorders, such as Schizophrenia, when left undiagnosed and untreated, can lead to criminal behavior. Schizophrenia is a chronic condition that severely affects the way people interpret reality. The inability to distinguish between what is real and what is unreal, places schizophrenics at risk of committing crimes. To elaborate, schizophrenic patients often experience symptoms that include delusions and hallucinations; simply put, altered realities. These symptoms make it difficult for patients to function or perform daily routines normally. Patients with the disease may experience hallucinations; they may believe in things that aren 't real, or become delusional; they may exhibit irrational or disordered thinking; and their

Antisocial Personality Disorder is often wrongly called sociopathy or psychopathy although both sociopathy and psychopathy are not recognized professional labels for the diagnosis. Antisocial may not be the best way to describe the disorder because it implies shyness and people who suffer from the disorder tend to be more outgoing, charming and pragmatic. The term came about because the disorder is “anti-society. It’s behavior that’s directed against society.” (Black, 2013) To my surprise ASPD is actually quite common, being as common as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder [ADHD], obsessive compulsive disorder [OCD], and panic; and it may be even more common when taking into account those who don’t report or those who deny their symptoms. ASPD is diagnosed using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder, 5th edition [DSM-5].

Clinicians usually become aware of a person's kleptomania only when the individual is in treatment for some other psychological problem such as an anxiety disorder, psychoactive substance abuse, eating disorder, or mood disorder (Bradford & Balmaceda, 1983; McElroy et al., 1991). The fact that most kleptomaniacs seen in a clinical context also suffer from another psychological disorder raises some interesting questions. Is it possible that kleptomanic behavior is a symptom of some other disorder, possibly biologically caused? With this possibility in mind, some researchers have speculated that a serotonin deficiency might underlie kleptomania, an idea that is supported by the fact that the medication fluoxetine (Prozac), which increases serotonin in the nervous system, has been found to reduce kleptomanic behavior (McElroy et al., 1991).

Some people might have aggressive behavior, health problems or inability to attend work or school (Iranpour). Some of these symptoms are most affected by age or severity of the condition the person has. If the affected person is a teenager, then some of their symptoms might be withdrawal away from friends or family, depressed mood or a lack of motivation. If the affected person is an adult, then the symptoms might be self harm, depression or maybe even suicide if worse cases. Finally, when you compare teen symptoms to that of adults, you notice that teens have more visual hallucinations and adults will have more delusions. The things I stated above are only just a few examples of some of the symptoms most people have. Now, let me explain the people it might

Anti-social personality disorder, sometimes referred to as a sociopathic personality, is defined as a psychiatric behavioral disorder in which the individuals affected “show no regard for the moral and ethical rules of society or the rights of others” (Feldman, 2018). This disorder, also known as psychopathy, was the first personality disorder to be recognized in psychiatry (Ogloff, 2006). People with this disorder may appear intelligent and socially normal at first, but their manipulative and deceptive behavior will show through quickly. Once the person behaves in a way that is harmful to another person, or animal, they would understand intelligently that they caused harm, but are incapable of feeling remorse for their actions. Without remorse, the consequences of the behavior may become ineffective, as no lesson is learned (Thompson, et.al., 2014). This disorder will affect people in both their personal lives and at work. Bills will go