The disruptive personality disorder of bullies

Bullying behavior is the result of Disruptive Personality Disorder, which may be abbreviated as DPD. DPD is an innate personality disorder that encompasses a broad range of possible symptoms, the common element being a persistent desire to feel vulgar pleasure that is obtained by being disruptive to others.

Such disruptiveness is especially directed at people or other things that are constructive, since there is much more to disrupt. -This can be likened to a maniacal person that drives a wrecking ball machine; the person does not desire to hit piles of rubble (which would merely knock around the rubble), but desires to hit intricate buildings so as to reduce them to rubble.

A person with DPD is essentially a sociopath, being a person who lacks empathy and is disruptive / aggressive / sadistic to others, but the definition of the word 'sociopath' is blurry and broad to such an extent that new, more specific terminology is required, hence there is 'Disruptive Personality Disorder'. DPD is clearly distinguished from the DSM's 'antisocial personality disorder' (which is very different from the usual definition of a sociopath anyway), because a person with DPD is no more likely than other people to have a problem with irresponsibility, recklessness, impulse control, or criminality.

It is very unlikely that any given person with DPD will display every possible symptom, since there is such a large number of possible symptoms through which DPD can manifest itself, but a person with DPD typically displays at least a few different symptoms, since the symptoms are correlated to eachother. Some particular symptoms are more common than others.

To some extent, the disruptive behaviors can be subdivided into forceful/intimidating disruptiveness and antagonistic disruptiveness, but for many behaviors these characteristics overlap. Within each of those 2 subtypes of disruptiveness, the behavior correlations are even stronger. Because of the large overlap of the effects of intimidating aggression and antagonistic aggression, I have only compiled a list of symptoms that are particular to intimidating aggression.

As with some other personality disorders, people with DPD do not see themselves as having a disorder, and therefore have no desire to change themselves. That sense of self-justification is exacerbated by the commonness of the disorder.

Disruptive Personality Disorder is genetic in etiology. It therefore lasts throughout a person's life and is passed on to one's offspring. Therefore the best long-term solution is sterilization.


The following is a catalog of the common symptoms of DPD:

Some general diagnostic symptoms:
*Target selection behavior, in which the person with DPD selects a 'mark', whom they are persistently aggressive towards. The target is preferentially a person who is particularly honest and constructive, because there is much more to disrupt.
*Disruptiveness-triggering, in which disruptive behavior is triggered by witnessing anything that is particularly truthful or otherwise constructive or virtuous.
*When asked for help by a person in a bad situation, cheerfully belittles or mocks other people's problems. Similarly, laughs at the suffering of others.
*Disrupts fair retaliation; aggressive toward those who retaliate or attempt to retaliate against aggression.
*Privacy violation behavior, such as looking through people's personal belongings.
*Gang-formation behavior: Seeks out other people with DPD and forms alliances with them, so as to facilitate their aggression.
*Seeks to attain a position(s) of authority so as to facilitate their disruptive/aggressive behavior. Also likely to seek to get allied people with DPD into positions of authority.

Diagnostic symptoms that involve disruptive deceptive behaviors:
*Falsely portrays people and their statements and actions. Especially, falsely portrays defenders/victims/innocents as attackers/victimizers and vice-versa. Especially likely to do so when their victims point out their deceptions. Another common type of false portrayal is to antagonize people by falsely portraying their important statements as mere acts of antagonism.
*Projects their own disruptiveness and/or non-constructiveness onto the victim(s) of their disruptiveness.
*Projects their own harassment behavior onto the victim(s) of their harassment or gang-harassment.
*Perpetrates slander/libel in general. Especially, slanderous/libellous false portrayal of others' statements, actions, beliefs, or ideals, and/or the motives/reasons thereof.
*Perpetrates aggressive/disruptive acts, such as implicit threats and/or libel, under a guise of friendliness and/or professionalism.
*Antagonizes people by asking for or demanding, most likely but not necessarily in the company of third parties, that they apologize for something, particularly when the thing to apologize for was either not wrong, or was not done in the first place.
*Prefers to use the word 'accuse' because of it's deceptive value, because the word does not distinguish between truthful statements and false statements, such that the word can be used to falsely portray truths as falsehoods.

Diagnostic symptoms involving facial expression and tone of voice:
*Uses one's facial expression and/or tone of voice for the purpose of intimidation. Intimidating facial expression typically consists of widened eyes and heightened outer eyebrows. intimidating tone of voice is produced by making the air chamber at the back of the mouth high (spacious in the vertical dimension).
*Uses one's facial expression and/or tone of voice for the purpose of antagonism. Antagonistic facial expression varies, but almost invariably includes heightened eyebrows and most often includes at least a slight smile, and sometimes includes raised lower eyelids. Antagonistic tone of voice is produced by making the air chamber at the back of the mouth long (spacious in the front-to-back dimension) by pushing the back of one's tongue forward.

Diagnostic symptoms specific to intimidating aggression/disruptiveness (other than the aforementioned facial expression and tone of voice):
*Uses intimidating self-righteous language, such as "you better not", "you had it coming", "learn your lesson", "you don't want to mess with me", "I warned you", "this is your last warning", "it's not a threat; it's a promise".
*Makes commands at people, or asks demanding rhetorical questions at people, in an intimidating manner, with a relatively loud, intimidating voice, especially when angered. Is especially likely to use the intimidating rhetorical question "do you understand?!". Likely to repeat commands/rhetorical questions if not followed/answered, often with more vocal force than the first time.
*Is angered when others do not respond to them, or otherwise ignore them; this is due to a dominant/egotistical desire for recognition from others.
*Puts one's pointed fingers (most often the index finger) or other objects close to another person's eyes in an aggressive manner (thus threatening the vulnerable eyes).
*Divide and conquer behavior: Gets alone with one's intended victims, and victimizes them then. This serves both to eliminate witnesses and to prevent the victim from being helped. Typically the victimization consists of intimidating threatening behavior, with or without accompanying physical attack.
*Uses various things as excuses to be fanatically aggressive toward others. Such things used as excuses typically include one's body, one's child(ren) or children in general, one's daughter(s) or girls in general, one's love partner, one's other relatives or friends, or one's racial/ethnic/religious group. The aggressor uses imagined or insignificant threats or offenses to said things as an excuse to behave with fanatical aggression toward others.
*Aggressively dominantes one's children and/or one's love partner.
*Makes mock physical attacks on people, such as punching very near their victim's face without actually connecting, so as to assert their dominance.

Miscellaneous diagnostic symptoms of physical sadism. Individually, some of these are uncommon, but taken on the whole these behaviors are common:
*Has a penchant for sadisticly using constant, relatively loud noise so as to be disruptive to others. This is likely to be in the form of talking, television, talk radio, music with lyrics, or keeping a barking dog. Is particularly likely to make noise at times when noise is not coming from other sources, since the point is to disrupt silence. Also related to this behavior is the behavior of aggressive interference with the elimination of noise.
*Exposes people to very loud noise (such as loud music), or shines a bright light in people's faces.
*Coerces people to go on roller coasters, airplanes, bungee jumping, long steep waterslides, or something similar.
*Tortures people with phobias or other unbearable things that are unique to the person.
*Sadisticly prevents people from stopping their suffering, such as by the use of suicide watches.
*Dunks and holds people's head under water, or holds people's legs so as to make it difficult for them to stay above water and breathe.
*Forcibly rouses people from sleep and keeps them awake in an antagonistic manner, likely by using an antagonistic voice.
*Cuts people's hair much shorter, or shaven off completely, against their will.
*Contaminates people's food/drink with bodily substances or other foul substances.
*Forcefully shoves people from behind, or trips people.
*Sadisticly harasses others so as to provoke them to retaliate, so as to give oneself an excuse to attack with some particular preferred method.
*Takes or damages other people's possessions, so as to harass/antagonize them. This is likely to be done as a gang-harassment behavior upon a targetted person.