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What Causes Aggressive And Antisocial Behaviour In A Teenager?

My son is Russian::adopted when he was 10 months.started fighting authority,getting in trouble at school,refused to study,got in trouble with the law and started drugs at 12 . He is bright but lazy is 19 and not in college. He seems to sabotage everything he does . I feel he has attachment disorder and feels he was rejected by his birth mother and can t get over it. We know. Nothing about the birth father. He has been shooting heroin and is in his second rehab program.
Fri, 28 Apr 2017
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Hi there.
I can understand that you are worried.
Attachment indeed plays a big role in the development of a child and poor attachement can lead to the personality features you are describing. First symptoms of Oppositional Defiant disorder and now antisocial personality traits.
There could also possibly be a family history of a mental illness that you are unaware of.


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What Causes Aggressive And Antisocial Behaviour In A Teenager?

Hi there. I can understand that you are worried. Attachment indeed plays a big role in the development of a child and poor attachement can lead to the personality features you are describing. First symptoms of Oppositional Defiant disorder and now antisocial personality traits. There could also possibly be a family history of a mental illness that you are unaware of.