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Antisocial Personality Disorder Diagnosis of my 18 year old son
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<blockquote data-quote="asldogs" data-source="post: 433150" data-attributes="member: 12055"><p>I have been told by the psychiatric professionals and read the same information as you offer regarding ASPD. About 4 months ago my son did a psychiatric evaluation from the clinic where he was getting therapy. After he stole the laptops and I have been observing a lack of remorse in his behaviors, I decided he needed another evaluation. He had not had one since he was the age of 8. They gave him the Oppositional-Difiant Disorder and another conduct disorder (I'm drawing a blank on the name) plus his ADHD. They explained in the report as well as in person that they can not formally diagnose him with ASPD until he is 18 but that he was fitting the profile. I saw it, too. I see him going to that dark place gradually and I've done everything I know to do to keep him from going down that path. He doesn't think there is anything wrong with him, blames everyone else, doesn't need therapy, and displays no remorse for what he has done or said to me and others. It actually helped to get the diagnosis. Now I know it's not me. Now I know not to take anything he does or says personally. I am now a little more able to be emotionally detached... at least until he is out of the house. Then I will mourn, cry and worry for him. I don't know if he is a true ASPD or not... but he behaves like one and I am approaching him as if it is true with the hope it is not.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="asldogs, post: 433150, member: 12055"] I have been told by the psychiatric professionals and read the same information as you offer regarding ASPD. About 4 months ago my son did a psychiatric evaluation from the clinic where he was getting therapy. After he stole the laptops and I have been observing a lack of remorse in his behaviors, I decided he needed another evaluation. He had not had one since he was the age of 8. They gave him the Oppositional-Difiant Disorder and another conduct disorder (I'm drawing a blank on the name) plus his ADHD. They explained in the report as well as in person that they can not formally diagnose him with ASPD until he is 18 but that he was fitting the profile. I saw it, too. I see him going to that dark place gradually and I've done everything I know to do to keep him from going down that path. He doesn't think there is anything wrong with him, blames everyone else, doesn't need therapy, and displays no remorse for what he has done or said to me and others. It actually helped to get the diagnosis. Now I know it's not me. Now I know not to take anything he does or says personally. I am now a little more able to be emotionally detached... at least until he is out of the house. Then I will mourn, cry and worry for him. I don't know if he is a true ASPD or not... but he behaves like one and I am approaching him as if it is true with the hope it is not. [/QUOTE]
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