Avoidant personality disorder

The internet and the ability to access a virtual social media network has revolutionized technology, but more significantly it has changed the way in which human societies interact, and function. In 2016, around 40% of the world population had an internet connection, meaning there were around 3.42 billion users with an internet connection (Internetlivestats.com). More specifically, American users referred to as millennials between the ages of 25 to 34 had the highest monthly internet usage…

others, so I failed to recognize their behaviors as abusive, but now that I know it has never been my fault, I have no tolerance whatsoever for that behavior in my life. Then, about a year ago, a stumbled onto some information on Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) and narcissistic abuse, and the pieces really started falling into place! Since then, I have been systematically cutting toxic and abusive people off as I discover them, and it feels like there will be next to no one left when I'm…

Opium, eating disorders, and neglection, mixed in with a handful…

In one study, a sociological review of the ways that one’s environment and nonbiological criterion lead to antisocial behavior was conducted. Patterson and colleagues (1989) describe how children and young people may develop antisocial disorder through sociological means. First, young people may form antisocial behavior because of poor parenting. Not to mention, these behaviors may take shape because of multiple factors impacting the interactions in the family. Next, because of the conduct…

Introduction: We’ll begin with the meaning of the phrase "it is far more likely that violent and non-violent antisocial behavior develops as a result of a series of complicated interactions with significant others in the social environment." According to the textbook, researchers concluded that “genes influence approximately 50 percent of the population variation in antisocial behavior, suggesting that genetics play a significant role in its development.” (Bartols, 2011) Genes are not set and…

Isaiah Smith Narcissism Is our generation narcissist? Are you narcissist? What is narcissism, narcissism is being overly self confident in yourself meaning thinking you can do whatever you want and thinking that your better than everyone else and thinking you are awesome pretty much. Our generation is said to be the most narcissistic generation actually they are calling it a narcissism epidemic because some psychologist believe that so many people are narcissistic. The term “Narcissism…

alludes to a personality trait reflecting a grandiose and inflated self-concept. In particular, narcissism associated with positive and exaggerated self-perspectives of agentic characteristics like intelligence, power, and physical,…

intervene with individuals capable of serial crime, sadistic sexual acts, and/or homicide (serial or otherwise). Through limited and questionable research, the presence of these behavior traits has also been linked to a level of malformation in personality. Despite obvious shortcomings in its science, this triadic trend is still commonly…

goal directed behavior, impulses, and emotion. “Over 70 studies examining sex differences in brain functioning found evidence that men are more antisocial, commit more serious types of offenses, and more often have more serious childhood conduct disorders” (Pollock, 2017, p.88). Much research gives explanations that we commit good or bad acts because of biological predispositions. When explaining how these biological approaches might explain antisocial behavior, we have to…

An article called They made you perfect: A test of the social reach model of perfectionism was released in Sep-Oct 2015 located on page 421-431, volume 41 of Aggressive Behavior. Claire Wilson, Simon C. Hunter, Susan Rasmussen, and Allison McGowen conducted this study to explore the association between different types of perfectionism and different types of recalled peer victimization. This study will use a non-clinical sample of women and men which will further examine whether reflecting and…