Over 65

Some disorders, especially emotional disorders can improve with age and maturation. This is less so for obsessive compulsive, schizoid and paranoid disorders. Normal individuals tend to become less emotional and impulsive and more cautious and careful with age; a person with a personality disorder much less so. People with antisocial personality disorder are usually most destructive in their early life. They are diagnosed most frequently between the ages of 20 and 35 and can “burn out” later in life, becoming less antisocial. Family difficulties, child abuse and alcohol abuse may persist.

Amended June 2008