rsonsdisorder peaks between the ages of 24 and 44 and drops off sharply after that.After the age of 30 the sociopath fights less and performs less crime but the illness can persist intothe ages of between 60 and 70 but after 30 are less likely to be in trouble with the law. In a sociopathsin their thirties will continue to have problems such as unstable relationships, substance abuse,impulsiveness, poor temper control and failure to honor financial obligations. In our population 3% menhave Anti-Social Personality Disorder and 1% women in the overall population have it. The ratio of mento women is 4 to 1. Identical twins are several times more likely to have a personality disordercompared to fraternal twins. A genetic link strongest in anti-social disorder has a pattern ofirresponsible behavior 5 times more common amongst close relatives of anti-social men than in thegeneral population. Some people with a genetic link to alcoholism have a genetic link to anti-socialpersonality disorder too. Male relatives of people with Somatization Disor!der have a higher incidence of anti-social personality disorder ( somatization - begins in the teens totwenties and consists of chronic physical problems and complaints). Sociopaths with a history ofsubstance abuse and criminal behavior fit Manchausen Syndrome ( Manchausen is the extreme type of factitious disorder which symptoms are lying ,falsification and pathological lying). Sociopaths alsohave a tendency to have a non -psychiatric condition that is called malingering which is the productionof grossly exaggerated symptoms for a specific illness or problem for the purpose of winning legal actionor things like committing insurance fraud or basically anything they have to lie to get. The sociopath isa bundle of problems that could come from any part of life and they are very hard to handle.If a person is diagnosed with Anti-Social Personality Disorder is very hard to treat and there is no cure for thei...
