What is Aggressive Personality Disorder?
Aggressive personality disorder is a common psychological problem characterized by emotional instability, impulsive behavior, reckless behavior, and lack of self-control. This personality disorder mostly occurs in adolescence and young and middle-aged years. Patients often have immature psychology, poor judgment, are easily influenced by others, have a hostile attitude towards others and society, and do things regardless of the consequences.
Aggressive personality disorder is divided into two forms: active aggressive and passive aggressive. Active-aggressive patients vent their emotions and impulses directly to others, such as making noises, fighting, etc. Passive-aggressive patients express their hostility and aggression indirectly, such as deliberately procrastinating, sabotaging, and disrupting others.
Do you have a tendency to have aggressive personality disorder?
If you want to know whether you have a tendency to have aggressive personality disorder, you can refer to the following test questions. Please answer the following six questions honestly. If you think a question applies to your situation, please mark ‘yes’ after the question, otherwise mark ’no’.
- Do you often feel irritable, irritable, and unable to control your emotions and impulses?
- Does your personality tend to be aggressive, reckless and blind?
- Can your impulsive behavior be conscious or unconscious?
- Is your behavior erratic, either planned or unplanned? Do you feel nervous before taking action and feel happy or relaxed after taking action? Do you have no real regret or guilt for your actions?
- Do you feel that you are mentally underdeveloped and immature? Do you often feel mentally unbalanced?
- Are you prone to bad or criminal behavior?
If you answered “yes” to four or more of the six questions above, you may have proactive-aggressive personality disorder. If you answered “yes” to two or three of the six questions above, you may have passive-aggressive personality disorder.
How to treat aggressive personality disorder?
If you discover that you have tendencies toward aggressive personality disorder, don’t be afraid or blame yourself. It doesn’t mean that you are a bad person or incurable. In fact, aggressive personality disorder can be improved and treated through some methods. Here are some effective treatment suggestions:
- Receive puberty education. Adolescence is a period of drastic physical and mental changes. It is necessary to correctly understand yourself and your own changes. Don’t just focus on your appearance and behavior. You must also reflect and introspect more, improve yourself, and devote your energy to learning and growth.
- Participate in cultural and sports activities. Cultural and sports activities are a good way to release inner energy, which can make you feel happy and satisfied. They can also cultivate your interests and sentiments, making you healthier and more active.
- Get psychological counseling. Psychological counseling is a good way to solve psychological problems. It can help you face setbacks and difficulties correctly, analyze and find out the causes and solutions to the problems, instead of using aggressive behavior to escape or vent. Psychological counseling can also help you improve your tolerance and coping skills, making you stronger and more confident.
- Cultivate self-cultivation and cultivation. Cultivation and self-cultivation are a kind of personality charm and a social ability. We must learn to reduce big things to small matters, and don’t get angry or impulsive because of trivial things; we must learn to compare ourselves with each other, respect each other, and do not hurt or offend others at will; we must learn to be moderately tolerant, treat others with tolerance, and do not act aggressively because of a little dissatisfaction. .
- Sublimation and compensation. Sublimation and compensation are two effective psychological adjustment methods. Sublimation refers to transferring the energy of attack to higher-level needs and goals, such as learning, work, creation, etc. Compensation refers to replacing a frustrated goal with another goal that may be successful, such as changing an angle, changing a method, changing a field, etc. This will allow you to gain more recognition and satisfaction, and also allow you to better demonstrate your abilities and value.
- Set an example. Example is a powerful influence that allows you to imitate and learn good behaviors and qualities. You should observe and learn from people with good personalities and outstanding achievements, draw positive energy and wisdom from them, and guide yourself in a positive way.
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