How to Handle Friends with AsPD: End Your Emotional Suffering

Anti-social personality disorder AKA AsPD is a condition that can take on many forms. If you are in any type of relationship with this type of person it is essential to your health that you deal with it in a proper way. In this Article I will refer to him/her as "P"

What Anti-Social Personality Disorder is:

A maladjusted and deeply ingrained pattern of behavior that persists for many years. By the time later adolescence comes around, or early adulthood it is usually well established. This is abnormal behavior and is serious enough to cause suffering to the person involved and to the other people around them. This can be seen in many different ways such as; narcissism, sociopathy and psychopathy.

Your Emotions:

This person can either be mentally abusing you or physically abusing you. This person can be anyone; your husband, your friend, your mother or father and so on.

Being with a person like this, and especially living with them, can harm your own sanity. You will often feel confused, depressed, anxiety will overcome you, and you cannot trust yourself.

What you need to do:

First of all it depends on whether or not you are living with this person. If you are living with this person, every day you will feel worn down and become unable to take much.

If you are living with this person it can be quite harder to get out, especially if this person is a family member. The mental strain put on parting with a true family member and the guilt they will try to give you afterwards will be scarring.

It is best to secretly get your things together, and when they are not looking disappear. Find anywhere to get away. It will be better than slowly losing your own sanity.

Remember not to keep in contact with the 'P' At all. They will try anything they can to get you back, they will scream and yell, they will bribe you, they will make you feel guilt, they will swear that they'll change. It's all a show; don't believe it.

If you are not living with them then you are very lucky. Stop contacting them, stop talking to them, don't listen to them when they come over.

If they start to stalk you; file an order of protection. If, for any reason they come back after they 'know' this has been filed, it is in your best interest to move away and take your name out of the phonebooks. Any 'P' this desperate could be of real danger to you, even if they weren't physical before.

After you have gotten away:

First of all; if you have achieved getting away from the 'P' then congratulations, this is a very hard thing to do. You will need counseling. I suggest a therapist, not anyone who will give you drugs, just someone to talk to.

It will take a while to heal, but you will heal. Don't remember them, don't mistake the false friendship they may have formed to try and fool you. Just keep on living the way you deserve to live.

Furthermore there is a google group I recommend you join. It is called Family and Friends affected by AsPD. There is a link in my resources below.