What Is Passive Aggressive Personality Disorder?

Passive-aggressive personality disorder (also called passive-aggressive personality disorder), also known as passive aggression ^[1] , is one of the types of personality disorders, and it is a personality disorder that expresses its strong aggressive tendency in a passive way. Patients are stubborn, full of anger and dissatisfaction, but do not directly express negative emotions. Instead, they obey on the surface, secretly perfunctory, procrastinate, and not cooperate. They often complain in private, but rely on authority. It is difficult to strike a balance between strong adherence and hostilities.

Passive aggressive personality disorder

The main characteristic of passive attacking personality disorder is simply: use negative, harsh, and covert ways to vent your dissatisfaction to "attack" people or things that make him unsatisfactory. The specific performance is as follows:

1) Use passive

From the above behavioral manifestations of passive-aggression, it can be seen that patients have many psychological problems. The main point is that patients cannot express their unpleasant emotional experiences in an appropriate and beneficial way. Although they know how to communicate with others, they are extremely reluctant to do so. Obviously have a lot of dissatisfaction and resentment, but do not want to be frank and express generously, but to take some of the psychological balance by "excretionary" way that only he himself knows clearly . If this unhealthy psychological behavior is not corrected in time, it will seriously harm people, themselves and the collective. We should fully understand it and prevent, intervene, and correct it as soon as possible.

Adaptation of Passive Attack Personality Disorder

1. Try to understand yourself

Knowing what you are doing, because people with this personality sometimes do things for no purpose, then you need to understand your own thinking. If you have a passive offensive personality disorder and know what you are doing, you can change yourself.

2. Don't please others

Learn to fight for what you really want and need. Remember, it is normal for people to be rejected when making a request. Although you are likely to be unhappy, you should not keep pleasing the other person. Speak and do things to know what you want, not to do things you don't want to do. People with a passive attacking personality often try to appease each other first and avoid disputes, rather than fighting for what they want.

3. Control anger

Be extra careful about situations that can make you angry. It may stem from your loneliness, jealousy, sadness, or embarrassment. When you are very worried about something, stop some retaliatory thoughts and then rehearse a positive approach in your brain.

4. Treat people fairly

Yelling, hysteria, does not let the anger calm down, it is better to ignore it. When you are going to conflict with others, focus on clarifying your own thinking and pay attention to the other party's justification. Don't just think that you want to win.

Passive aggressive personality disorder treatment

The therapist must repeatedly point out the adverse consequences caused by his thinking and behavioral patterns, and sometimes must restrict his behaviors, repeatedly pushing the patient to face reality. Involving family members in the treatment process is very helpful and necessary because collective stress may be more effective. Group and family therapy, collective living and participation in the treatment of social clubs or mutual help groups can all help.

Patients with personality disorders may sometimes experience anxiety and depression, and hope to use drugs to relieve emotional disorders, but depression and anxiety due to personality disorders are difficult to obtain satisfactory results through medication. These symptoms indicate that the patient is recognizing the problem. However, drug treatment often leads to concurrent drug abuse and suicide attempts. If the patient has other mental disorders, such as major depression, horror, or panic disorder, medications can be considered, although this may only be partially effective.

Personality changes take a long time, and short-term treatment cannot successfully cure a person's personality disorder. However, some symptoms can change quickly, and behavioral correction therapy can achieve better results for light work, social isolation, lack of self-confidence, or irritability. However, long-term psychotherapy (interview therapy) is the basis of most treatments. It can help patients understand the cause of their anxiety and recognize their bad behavior. Some personality disorders, such as narcissistic or obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, can be best achieved with psychoanalysis, while others, such as antisocial personality disorder, have no effect with any treatment.