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6. Personality & Impulse Control Disorders Flashcards

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Cluster A personality disorders

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Odd or eccentric behaviour

  1. Paranoid PD
  2. Schizoid PD
  3. Schizotypal PD
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Cluster B personality disorders

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Dramatic or erratic responses (emotional)

  1. Antisocial PD
  2. Boderline PD
  3. Histrionic PD
  4. Narcissistic PD
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Cluster C personality disorders

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Anxious and fearful behaviour

  1. Avoidant PD
  2. Dependent PD
  3. Obsessive compulsive PD
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Ddx between PD and schizophrenia

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PD patients may present with psychotic features, but have intact capacity for reality, expressing emotions, able to distinguish between thoughts of their own and others

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Ddx between PD and bipolar

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No hypomanic or manic episodes

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Ddx between PD and anxiety disorder

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PD patients use immature defences

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What is paranoid personality disorder?

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Persistent suspicion and worry about conspiracy against oneself, angry reactions to perceived attacks, mistrust in others

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Management of paranoid personality disorder

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Supportive psychotherapy
Problem solving therapy
CBT
Pharmacotherapy: symptomatic treatment

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Schizoid personality disorder

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Restricted affective expression, very poor social relationships and avoidance of social activities, lack of interest to socialise

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Schizotypal personality disorder

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  1. Psychoticism
    - Eccentric behaviour and appearance
    - Odd thoughts
    - Odd beliefs or magical thinking
  2. Detachment
    - Restricted affective expression (emotional detachment)
    - Withdrawal (avoidance)
  3. Negative affect
    - suspicious, paranoid of harm by others

OILIES
Odd: behaviour, perceptual experience, beliefs, speech
Ideas of reference
Lacks friends but wants
Inappropriate affect
Excessive social anxiety
Suspiciousness or paranoia

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Ddx of Cluster A PD

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Schizophrenia
Delusional disorder
Severe depressive disorder with psychotic features
Paranoid PD
Schizoid PD
Schizotypal PD
Boderline PD

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Cluster A PDs are more common in…

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1st degree relatives of schizophrenia patients
Lack of protection and support in childhood, excessive parental rage

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Antisocial personality disorder

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Manipulative, dishonest, lack of remorse (callous)***, hostility, criminality
Irresponsible, impulsive, risk taking

aka potential psychopath

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Progress to ASD

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Continuum:
ODD (6-10yo) -> CD (10-15yo) -> ASD (16-18yo onwards)

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Ddx of ASD PD

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Temporary ASD (focal behaviour, conscience intact)
Mania/hypomania

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Borderline personality disorder

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IMPULSIVE mnemonic
Impulsive
Mood swings
- usually in response to environment/circumstance
- within a day
- ABRUPT & SHORT-LIVED
Paranoid/psychosis
- may have psychotic-like episodes under stress
Unstable self image
Labile intense relationships
- relationships form and fall apart very quickly
Self harm/suicide
Inappropriate Anger
- angry easily and intense degree of anger
Vulnerability to Abandonment**
- excessive acts done to prevent abandonment
Emptiness**
- chronic feelings of emptiness

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Therapies for BPD

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Psychotherapy
- Dialectical behaviour therapy
* highly indicated
- Metallisation based therapy

Pharmacotherapy: SSRI
- very MINIMAL role

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What is an accessory feature of Borderline PD?

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SPLITTING

Adopting an extreme view of that world in black and white with little in between
- People are SUPER GOOD -> idealise or SUPER TERRIBLE -> denigration
- Fails to see that each person has good and bad traits

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What can arise when dealing with a Borderline PD patient?

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(Transference: projects a certain image/feelings onto doctor based on patient’s own past experiences)

Counter-transference: projects a certain image/feelings onto patient based on doctor’s own past experiences
- NEVER act on your counter transference

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Histrionic personality disorder

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  • Wants to be in the centre of attention
  • Discomfort when not in the centre of attention
  • Use physical appearance to draw attention to self
  • Impressionistic style of speech
  • Overdramatic emotions
  • Considers relationship to be more intimate
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Narcissistic personality disorder

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Excessive self love based on self image

  • Grandiosity: entitlement, self-centredness, one is better than others
  • Attention seeking
  • Lacks empathy
  • Envious of others/believes others are envious of him
  • Arrogant
  • Exploitative
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Avoidant personality disorder

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Persistent, pervasive tension and apprehension, characterised by avoidance of interpersonal contact/social activities due to fear of criticism or rejection; excessive preoccupation with facing criticism

CRINGES

Criticism preoccupies thoughts
Restraint in relationship due to shame
Inhibited in new relationships
Needs to be sure of being liked
Gets around activities needing interpersonal contact
Embarrassment prevents risk taking
Self-view: unappealing and inadequate

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Dependent personality disorder (submissive, clingy)

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Uncomfortable alone
Fear of inability to self-care
Eager to please
Others needs over their own
Allows others to make decision about their own lives

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Dependent personality disorder (submissive, clingy)

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Uncomfortable alone
Fear of inability to self-care
Eager to please
Others needs over their own
Allows others to make decision about their own lives

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Obsessive compulsive personality disorder (perfectionist)

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  • Rigid perfectionism
  • Excessive adherence to rules
  • Extreme meticulous
  • Difficult to change ideas
  • Willing to forgo other things
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A person must be at least ___ years old for a personality disorder to be made

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18

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Mainstay of treatment for personality disorder is

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psychotherapy

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Which personality disorder has the highest admission rate?

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BPD

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Symptom clusters of Borderline PD

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  1. Impaired relatedness - intense unstable relationships with others, unstable sense of self, chronic emptiness
  2. Affective dysregulation** - affective instability, anger, frantic efforts to avoid abandonment
  3. Behaviour dysregulation - Impulsivitiy, suicidality, self injurious behaviour

Affective dysregulation is the most sensitive and specific for BPD

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Ddx of BPD
(reasons in comparison to BPD)

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PTSD
- Not pervasive and persistent
- Interpersonal distancing (unlike intense relationships)
- No fear of abandonment
- Presence of intrusive thoughts, avoidance symptoms

Bipolar Disorder
- Mood changes are SUSTAINED (unlike in BPD)
- Mood changes are often independent of external triggers
- No feelings of emptiness (in bipolar, emotions are felt very intensely)

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Issues with BPD

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  • high co-morbs with depression, bipolar disorder, psychotic disorder and alcohol/substance abuse
  • high risk of suicide and NSSI
  • high risk of psych hospitalisations
  • disruptions in interpersonal relationships
  • impulsive acts could lead to forensic implications
  • high chance of engaging in high risk activities
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What is NSSI?

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Non-suicidal self injury
Deliberate, repetitive, impulsive and non-lethal harming of oneself
- not culturally sanctioned
- may be found in individuals without any mental illness

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Types of NSSI

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Cutting, pinching, head banging, hair pulling, punching

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Approach to BPD

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  1. Assess risk!!! and determine disposition
  2. Review for the presence of any disorders and treat
  3. Safety planning with patient and family
  4. Refer for Dialectical Behavioural Therapy
  5. Consider pharmacotherapy (SSRIs, mood stabilisers, antipsychotics)
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4 components of Dialectical Behavioural Therapy

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DICE
1. Distress tolerance
2. Interpersonal effectiveness
3. Core mindfulness
4. Emotional regulation

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Management strategies for ASPD

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  • Tarasoff’s rule: inform patient’s family, police that patient plans to harm xx
  • Refer patient to Institute of Mental Health for assessment and admission under Mental Health Care and Treatment Act
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What defence mechanism is associated with paranoid PD?

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Projection

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Differences between avoidant PD and social anxiety disorder?

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Avoidant PD
- personality disorder
- longer duration, since childhood
- insidious onset
- believe that they deserve such anxiety, genuinely believes to be inferior

Social anxiety disorder
- anxiety disorder
- shorter duration, usually before childhood
- acute onset
- frustrated by their anxiety, have insight that their fears are irrational

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