Antisocial Personality

At Sober Life, we know how difficult it can be to find affordable and effective support for long-term healing. For many people, ASPD symptoms first manifest in childhood as conduct disorder (CD). Therefore, it may be difficult to imagine a world where ASPD does not rule your life. However, we believe everyone faces challenges, and everyone deserves an opportunity to recover. Therefore, with individualized support, you can truly start building a fulfilling life.

The Challenges of Antisocial Personality Disorder

Untreated ASPD can make your daily life more difficult and lead to long-term consequences that impede success in your life. The symptoms of ASPD can make it difficult to manage emotions in healthy ways, relate to others, and form positive connections. Moreover, the challenges of ASPD impede your ability to be a productive member of society and find satisfaction in life. Some of the challenges you may experience with ASPD include:

• Poor job performance
• Difficulty maintaining employment
• Academic difficulties
• Frequent disruption of autonomy
  • Due to incarceration
• Low social engagement
• Co-occurring disorders
  • Mental health disorders
  • Substance use disorder (SUD)

Feeling like you cannot control your emotions or behavior is frustrating, especially when it impedes life satisfaction. It can be particularly distressing if you do not understand why you behave in destructive ways. Therefore, the challenges of ASPD often co-occur more intensely with mental health disorders and SUD. Despite challenges, at Sober Life, we believe you can learn to thrive in your life with antisocial personality treatment.

Finding Antisocial Personality Treatment at Sober Life

ASPD is a chronic condition, but with antisocial personality treatment, you can build tools to lead your best life. We believe in providing a comprehensive and service-oriented approach to care aimed at helping you build a healthier you. It is easy to get caught up in seemingly insurmountable obstacles to recovery. However, a holistic approach to recovery is about understanding the roots of obstacles to give you tools for whole-person healing.

Holistic care recognizes how every part of your life, like adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), impacts your well-being. Therefore, here at Sober Life, we are committed to providing support that heals you in mind, body, and spirit. Through the HealthyU program, our masters-level mental health clinicians can help you build an individualized treatment plan for your specific needs.

Discovering Your Path to Healing

Traditional rehabs tend to focus on treating the symptoms of a condition. However, traditional methods often pay little attention to how other factors impact those symptoms. There are a variety of interconnected mental and social factors that contribute to the challenges people experience. At Sober Life, we offer holistic approaches to mental health and addiction because there is no one path to recovery.

Whether you have a co-occurring addiction or not, you should have access to individualized antisocial personality treatment that acknowledges your specific needs for your long-term well-being. Through our mental health and addiction recovery approaches, you can engage in resiliency-focused care to develop adaptive tools to manage your symptoms and live your best life.

Mental Health Recovery Approach

As noted in Psychosis, ASPD is associated with other co-occurring mental health disorders like severe depression. In addition, ASPD and other co-occurring mental health disorders are also associated with more severe substance misuse. The increased risk of other co-occurring mental health disorders and SUD adds another layer of challenges to ASPD. Thus, the HealthyU program is designed to provide individualized antisocial personality treatment that addresses your specific experiences and needs for recovery.

Some of the treatment options we offer through our HealthyU program include:

• Intensive outpatient program (IOP)
• Hybrid IOP
  • Virtual group IOP
• Partial hospitalization program (PHP)
• Veteran IOP
• Holistic activities
  • Yoga
  • Exercises
  • Massage

At Sober Life, we know that your experiences are unique to you, and you deserve holistic treatment that meets you where you are. Therefore, we are committed to working with you to build an antisocial personality treatment plan to support you in achieving your goals for a healthier you.

Addiction Recovery Approach

The Psychosis journal notes that ASPD has a high association with more severe substance abuse, particularly with drugs. As the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) states, in the United States alone, around 9.2 million people have a co-occurring disorder. The high prevalence of co-occurring mental health disorders and SUD has multiple factors, as these disorders often work in a bidirectional manner. As a result, at Sober Life, we offer customizable paths to healing in mental health and addiction to help you find your unique path.

Listed below are some of the flexible services we offer for antisocial personality treatment to help you get your emotional health back on track:

• Outpatient detoxification
• PHP
• IOP
• Virtual IOP (VIOP)
• Adolescent IOP
• Veteran IOP
• Aftercare program

With holistic whole-person care, you can truly discover that the strength is in you to build a healthier you in recovery.

Benefits of Antisocial Personality Treatment in a Healing Setting

The challenges of ASPD can leave you feeling isolated and alone. When you feel disconnected from the rest of the world, it can be difficult to imagine that recovery, connection, and community are a possibility for you. At Sober Life, we believe everyone is deserving of the opportunity for healing, including you. Therefore, we are committed to fostering a healing environment in Downtown San Diego where you can find antisocial personality treatment and support to help you thrive.

Sober Life is situated in Little Italy, one of the oldest continuous neighborhood districts in Downtown San Diego, where community and connection are at the center of our lives. Through a casual, community-driven environment, we provide space and flexibility for you to build the tools you need for recovery in real-time. Whether you are considering antisocial personality treatment for yourself or supporting a loved one, you can find a vibrant and deeply connected recovery community that grows with you.

Addressing the Importance of Antisocial Personality Treatment

Challenges with ASPD can make it difficult to recognize when you need to seek treatment. Moreover, the disruptive symptoms of ASPD may lessen with advanced age, but its long-term impact on your life and your relationships is profound. Even with time, untreated ASPD deeply burdens the lives of family members, co-workers, and neighbors. In addition, a lack of treatment can leave co-occurring mental health disorders and SUD untreated, which increases physical and psychological difficulties.

Waiting for ASPD symptoms to lessen with time burdens others and leaves little to no space for growth and life satisfaction. Time does not give you back opportunities for education, meaningful employment, or fulfillment domestically. Taking that first step toward seeking antisocial personality treatment might feel uncomfortable, but an opportunity to build a fulfilling life is well worth that initial discomfort. The opportunity for connection and community is a worthy endeavor for seeking support.

As the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry notes, connections with loved ones can play an important role in seeking support and seeing improvement. Those deep connections with others can act as a source of personal support and motivation to build a healthy life. Positive, supportive connections can be a deeply impactful tool for healing in ASPD. Therefore, seeking antisocial personality treatment can give you the tools to foster and maintain those supportive relationships.

To take that first step and find antisocial personality treatment today, visit our Get Help page.