Personality Disorders, Mental Illness and Harassment

More often than not, if we are dealing with adults, mental illness or substance abuse, plays a role in harassment. The reason for that is simple; normal folks don't act that way.

Mental illness exists in different degrees, and it sometimes takes specific stimuli to get somebody to flip them into a state of manic behavior.

This type of behavior is characteristic of their personality disorder, whatever it may be. It is pretty much impossible to get them to see it as they see it as normal behavior, it is to them. They are simply acting the way their brain tells them to, justifying it by believing they are standing up for themselves or their loved ones, or simply protecting "their good name" or simply thinking they are acting in the best interest of themselves. Whatever the reason, to them, it isn't harassment, violence or anything of the like, it's what they have to do because they feel they have to.

Also be aware there are so many kinds of different personality disorders, it's impossible to cover them all, here I simply regurgitate some information I have learned about different disorders while researching and trying to figure out what we are dealing with in our situation, and it's been very interesting research that has led me to small epiphanies about myself as well, not to say that I am mentally ill, just personality traits that are associated with different kinds of upbringings and such things are very interesting.

Not all disorders are violent, some are self-destructive, with high suicide rates, some are simply psychotic, with unpredictable tendencies.

Many personality disorders share a large number of characteristics, defined specifically only by one or two unique differences in behavior, so it can be quite hard to pinpoint.