Antisocial Personality Disorder Symptoms
While a person with depression or bipolar disorder typically endures the same mood for weeks, a person with BPD may experience intense bouts of anger, depression, and anxiety that may last only hours, or at most a day. These may be associated with episodes of impulsive aggression, self-injury, and drug or alcohol abuse. Distortions in cognition and sense of self can lead to frequent changes in long-term goals, career plans, jobs, friendships, gender identity, and values. Sometimes people with BPD view themselves as fundamentally bad, or unworthy. They may feel unfairly misunderstood or mistreated, bored, empty, and have little idea who they are. Such symptoms are most acute when people with BPD feel isolated and lacking in social support, and may result in frantic efforts to avoid being alone.
People with BPD often have highly unstable patterns of social relationships. While they can develop intense but stormy attachments, their attitudes towards family, friends, and loved ones may suddenly shift from idealization (great admiration and love) to devaluation (intense anger and dislike). Thus, they may form an immediate attachment and idealize the other person, but when a slight separation or conflict occurs, they switch unexpectedly to the other extreme and angrily accuse the other person of not caring for them at all. Even with family members, individuals with BPD are highly sensitive to rejection, reacting with anger and distress to such mild separations as a vacation, a business trip, or a sudden change in plans. These fears of abandonment seem to be related to difficulties feeling emotionally connected to important persons when they are physically absent, leaving the individual with BPD feeling lost and perhaps worthless. Suicide threats and attempts may occur along with anger at perceived abandonment and disappointments.
People with BPD exhibit other impulsive behaviors, such as excessive spending, binge eating and risky sex. BPD often occurs together with other psychiatric problems, particularly bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety disorders, substance abuse, and other personality disorders.
Autism Awareness
The number of sufferers from Autism is increasing, but is Autism being made aware to the public eye well enough? There is an increase in Autism awareness slowly coming into play such as autism bracelets, which are there to not only raise money but to raise general awareness. But is this enough? I do not think so; I believe that in order to do something about this we need to make the government aware so that a plan can be put into place so that this problem can be solved. Of course it is not going to be that simple, in order for us to make any change we need to show the government how bad the situation is, we need people to join in and spread the word so that we can get through and hopefully solve the problem.
Autism awareness is very important in today's society, as it is important that we try and do something about it. Did you know that there are many struggling single mothers and fathers out there who look after a child with autism? Just imagine how much time this much consume out of their days, and they also have to earn a living to support the child, this sort of problem truly is getting out of hand because the parents simply cannot afford to live as well as look after the child. These parents need support from the government so that they can look after their child as well as themselves.
In conclusion, I believe that more effort should be put in to make Autism aware, because just like HIV and AIDs it is something that we need to get rid of since it is damaging not only the lives of the sufferers but also the lives of the careers that have to monitor sufferers constantly. So please do try your best to raise awareness of the topic because autism is an issue that is getting out of hand. If we can raise awareness enough we can maybe even get through to the government so that action can be taken. They are the ones with the power, so why not encourage them to use it.