When reviewing this list, please keep in mind that only a qualified clinician experienced with diagnosing and treating Attachment Disorder can accurately make a diagnosis.

Behavioral

• Frequently defies rules (oppositional)
• Lack of impulse control
• Self-destructive behaviors
• Aggression toward others
• Destruction of property
• Consistently irresponsible
• Abnormal eating habits
• Inappropriately demanding & clingy
• Stealing
• Deceitful (lying, conning)
• Hoarding
• Inappropriate sexual conduct & attitutudes
• Cruelty to animals
• Sleep disturbance
• Enuresis & encopresis
• Hyperactivity
• Persistent nonsense questions & incessant chatter
• Difficulty with novelty & change

Cognitive Functioning

• Lack of cause-and-effect thinking
• Learning disorders
• Language disorders
• Grandiose sense of self-importance
• Grandiose sense of victim-hood

Showing Affection

• Not affectionate on parents’ terms
• Intense displays of anger (rage)
• Marked mood changes
• Intensely sad, depressed or helpless
• Inappropriate emotional responses

Social Behavior

• Superficially engaging and charming
• Indiscriminately affectionate with strangers
• Victimizes others (perpetrator, bully)
• Exploitative, manipulative, controlling and bossy
• Lack of eye contact for closeness
• Lack of or unstable peer relationships
• Cannot tolerate limits and external control
• Blames others for own mistakes and problems
• Victimized by others
• Completely lacking trust in others

Physical

• Poor hygiene
• Chronic body tension
• Accident prone
• High pain tolerance
• Overreaction to minor injury
• Tactilely defensive

Spiritual/Moral

• Lack of meaning and purpose
• Lack of remorse (conscience)
• Identification with evil and the dark side of life