Passive Aggressive Behavior

PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE PERSONALITY DISORDER

People with PAPD are characterized by covert obstructionism, procrastination, stubbornness, and inefficiency. Such behavior is a manifestation of passively expressed underlying aggression. In the DSM-IV the disorder is also called negativistic PD.

CLINICAL FEATURES

PAPD patients characteristically procrastinate, resist demands for adequate performance, find excuses for delays, and find fault with those on whom they depend; yet they refuse to extricate themselves from the dependent relationships. They usually lack assertiveness and are not direct about their own needs and wishes. They fail to ask needed questions about what is expected of them and may become anxious when forced to succeed or when their usual defense of turning anger against themselves is removed.

In interpersonal relationships, these people attempt to manipulate themselves into a position of dependence, but others often experience this passive, self-detrimental behavior as punitive and munipulative. People with this disorder expect others to do their errands and to carry out their routine responsibilities. Friends and clinicians may become enmeshed in trying to assuage the patients' many claims of unjust treatment. The close relationships of people with PAPD, however, are rarely tranquil or happy. Because they are bound to their resentment more closely than to their satisfaction, they may never even formulate goals for finding enjoyment in life. People with this disorder lack self-confidence and are typically pessimistic about the future.

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So yea, this blog is my call for passive aggressive behavior to come to an end in the work place and among friends! I am not usually one to call out personality disorders that cause drama, as I am ADHD myself and fucked up like the rest of us, however this is more of a rant, due to stuff going on in my life... hope it is cool...

Dont you hate it when people who may not like confrontation do things to harm, which are passive aggressive and therefore in their own little minds can be written off as nothing...

por ejemplo....

(none of these examples are real and all are typical and anonymous... to protect the innocent)

if say your roommate was mad at you cause you did something that they didnt like, but you had no idea you were doing... but instead of talking to you about it... fights fire with fire and does something in vengence or in spite...

if your co-worker's idea is not used or accepted and then he/she gets all butt hurt..... but.... acts like it is nothing, doesnt voice his/her opinion about it, does not even try to defend their position.... and then holds a certain amout of resentment for a boss or another co-worker for future idea debates etc...

if your gf/bf is mad cause you bumped into, then hung out with another girl/guy that is your friend (only)... then out of spite your gf/bf make an EFFORT to hang out with a guy/girl in vengence...

etc...


got any good examples?