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Antisocial personality disorder is a cluster B personality disorder which involves the affected person not caring about anyone and habitually violating other people's rights. This very often takes the form of frequently committing crimes. They do not try to keep to social norms. They are very selfish and only care about their own pleasure. They disregard the law and the feelings and needs other people have. Many antisocials enjoy causing suffering to their victims. They do not respect anyone or anything. They do not feel guilt, regret or love; they do not feel a significant amount of fear. Most antisocials are impulsive, reckless, aggressive, destructive and do not think about the medium or long term. Most antisocials have addictions and abuse drugs. Antisocials have a very high rate of imprisonment. Their life expectancy is much lower than that of the general public. The disorder starts before age 15 in the form of conduct disorder, but ASPD is not diagnosed before age 18. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, about three percent of men, and one percent of women have this mental disorder, which is also known as sociopathy. Psychopathy is a type of ASPD.
