Unique facts about emotional and behavioral outbursts
What is unique about the emotional and behavioral outbursts that characterize the disruptive, impulse-control, and conduct disorders (including intermittent explosive, oppositional defiant, and antisocial personality disorders, pyromania, kleptomania, and others) that may help distinguish them from outbursts in other disorders such as delirium, substance intoxication/withdrawal, or autism spectrum disorders?
They are purposeful, frequent, persistent actions causing harm to self or violations of the rights of others and/or societal norms, occur with pervasiveness across situations, and are disproportionate to provocation
