A personality disorder is identified by a pervasive pattern
of experience and behavior that is abnormal with respect to any two of the
following: thinking, mood, personal relations and the control of impulses.
The character of a person is shown through his or her
personality -- by the way an individual thinks, feels, and behaves.When the behavior is inflexible, maladaptive,
and antisocial, then that individual is diagnosed with a personality disorder.
Personality disorders are not illnesses in a strict sense as
they do not disrupt emotional, intellectual, or perceptual functioning.However, those with personality disorders
suffer a life that is not positive, proactive, or fulfilling.Not surprisingly, personality disorders are
alsoassociated with failures to reach
potential.
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health
Disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association, defines a
personality disorder as an enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior
that deviates markedly from the expectation of the individual's culture, is
pervasive and inflexible, has an onset in adolescence or early adulthood, is
stable over time, and leads to distress or impairment.
Examples of Personality Disorders :-
Antisocial Personality Disorder:Lack of regard for the moral or legal
standards in the local culture, marked inability to get along with others or
abide by societal rules.Sometimes
called psychopaths or sociopaths.
Avoidant Personality Disorder:Marked social inhibition, feelings of
inadequacy, and extremely sensitive to criticism.
Borderline Personality Disorder:Lack of one's own identity, with rapid
changes in mood, intense unstable interpersonal relationships, marked impulsively,
instability in affect and in self image.
Dependent Personality Disorder:Extreme need of other people, to a point
where the person is unable to make any decisions or take an independent stand
on his or her own. Fear of separation and submissive behavior. Marked lack of
decisiveness and self-confidence.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder:Behavior or a fantasy of grandiosity, a lack
of empathy, a need to be admired by others, an inability to see the viewpoints
of others, and hypersensitive to the opinions of others.
Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder:Characterized by perfectionism and
inflexibility; preoccupation with uncontrollable patterns of thought and
action.
Paranoid Personality Disorder:Marked distrust of others, including the
belief, without reason, that others are exploiting, harming, or trying to
deceive him or her; lack of trust; belief of others' betrayal; belief in hidden
meanings; unforgiving and grudge holding.
Schizoid Personality Disorder:Primarily characterized by a very limited
range of emotion, both in expression of and experiencing; indifferent to social
relationships.
Schizotypal Personality Disorder:Peculiarities of thinking, odd beliefs, and
eccentricities of appearance,behavior,
interpersonal style, and thought (e.g., belief in psychic phenomena and having
magical powers).
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