DSM-5 Diagnostic Categories Flashcards
What are the 16 Diagnostic Categories in the DSM-5?
- Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders
- Bipolar Disorders
- Depressive Disorders
- Anxiety Disorders
- Obsessive Compulsive & Related Disorders
- Trauma & Stressor Related Disorders
- Dissociative Disorders
- Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders
- Feeding and Eating Disorders
- Sexual Dysfunctions
- Paraphilic Disorders
- Gender Dysphoria
- Disruptive, Impulse Controls and Conduct Disorders
- Substance- Related and Addictive Disorders
- Personality Disorders
A disability characterized by deficits in general mental abilities that result in impairments of adaptive functioning (conceptual, practical and social). Onset of these deficits are during the developmental period.
Intellectual Disability
What are the communication disorders characterized by deficits in the development and use of language, speech and social communication respectively?
Language Disorder
Speech sound Disorder
Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder
A communication disorder characterized by disturbances of the normal fluency and motor production of speech or stuttering.
Childhood-onset fluency disorder
A neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by persistent deficits in social communication and social interaction across multiple concepts. Deficits in social reciprocity, nonverbal communicative behaviors and skills in developing/maintaining relationships. Presence of restricted, repetitive patterns of behaviors, interests or activities.
Autism Spectrum Disorder
A disability defined by impairing levels of inattention, disorganization and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity, inconsistent with age or developmental level.
Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Entail inability to stay on task, seeming it to listen and losing materials at levels that are inconsistent with age or developmental level.
Inattention and Disorganization
Entails overactivity, fidgeting, inability to stay seated, intruding into other people’s activities and inability to wait- symptoms excessive for age or developmental period.
Hyperactivity-impulsivity
Diagnosis when there are specific deficits in an individual’s ability to perceive or process information efficiently and accurately. Characterized by persistent and impairing difficulties with learning foundation academic skills in reading, writing or math.
Specific Learning Disorder
A motor disorder characterized by deficits in acquisition and execution of coordinated motor skills and is manifested by clumsiness and slowness or inaccuracy of performance or motor skills that cause interference with activities of daily living.
Developmental Coordination Disorder
Repetitive, seemingly driven and apparently purposeless motor behaviors.
Stereotypic movement disorder
Disorder characterized by the presence of motor or vocal tics.
Tic Disorders
A range of linked conditions, sometimes also extending to include singular symptoms and traits.
Spectrum
Pervasive pattern of social and interpersonal deficits. Cognitive or perceptual distortions. Eccentricities of behavior are usually beginning by early adulthood but in some cases first becoming apparent in childhood and adolescence. Abnormalities of beliefs, thinking and perception are below the threshold for the diagnosis of a psychotic disorder.
Schizotypal Personality Disorder
Characterized by atleast 1 month of delusions but no other psychotic symptoms. Has not met the criteria for schizophrenia. Functional impairment. The duration of manic and depressive episodes have been brief relative to the duration of delusion.
Delusional Disorder
One or more of the symptoms of schizophrenia that lasts more than 1 day and remits by 1 month.
Brief Psychotic Disorder
Characterized by a symptomatic presentation equivalent to that of schizophrenia except for its duration (less than 6 months) and the absence of a requirement for a decline in functioning.
Schizophreniform Disorder
Two or more of the following symptoms for atleast 1 month; one symptom should be either 1, 2 or 3:
1. Delusions
2. Hallucinations
3. Disorganized speech
4. Disorganizer or catatonic behavior
5. Negative symptoms (diminished motivation or emotional expression)
Functional impairment
Signs of disorder for atleast 6 months.
Schizophrenia
A mood episode and the active-phase symptoms of schizophrenia occur together and are preceded or are followed by atleast 2 weeks of delusions or hallucinations without prominent mood symptoms.
Schizoaffective Disorder
What are the 3 types of Bipolar Disorders?
Bipolar I
Bipolar II
Cyclothymic Disorder
A more severe bipolar disorder, with at least one episode of mania or mixed episode in DSM-IV-TR.
Bipolar I
A bipolar disorder with at least one episode of hypomania and one episode of major depression.
Bipolar II
A bipolar disorder for atleast 2 years (1 year for children and adolescents). Symptoms include numerous periods with hypomanic symptoms that do not meet criteria for hypomanic episode and depressive symptoms that do not meet criteria for major depressive episode.
Cyclothymic Disorder
What are the 4 Depressive Disorders?
Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder
Major Depressive Disorder
Persistent Depressive Disorder (Dysthymia)
Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder
A disorder with atleast 5 symptoms (counting sad mood and loss of pleasure) :
Sleeping too much or too little
Psychomotor retardation or agitation
Weight loss or change in appetite
Loss of energy
Feelings of worthlessness or excessive guilt
Difficulty concentrating, thinking or making decisions.
Recurrent thoughts of death or suicide
Symptoms are present nearly everyday, most of the day for atleast 2 weeks
Functional impairment.
Major Depressive Disorder
A disorder with depressed mood for most of the day more than half of the time for 2 years (1 year for children and adolescents) and atleast 2 of the following:
Poor appetite or overeating
Sleeping too much or too little
Poor self esteem
Low energy
Trouble concentrating or making
Decisions
Feelings of hopelessness
Persistent Depressive Disorder (Dysthymia)
The core feature of this disability is chronic, severe, persistent irritability, which has 2 prominent clinical manifestations: frequent temper outbursts and chronic, persistently irritable or angry mood that is present between the severe temper outbursts.
Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder
The expression of mood lability, irritability, dysphoria and anxiety symptoms that occur repeatedly during the premenstrual phase of the cycle and remit around the onset of menses or shortly thereafter. It may be accompanied by behavioral and physical symptoms.
Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder
What are the 7 types of Anxiety Disorders?
Social anxiety Disorder (Social Phobia)
Specific Phobia
Panic Disorder
Agoraphobia
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Selective Mutism
Separation Anxiety Disorder
Marked and disproportionate fear consistently triggered by specific objects or situations that are avoided or else endures with intense anxiety for at least 6 months.
Specific Phobia
Marked and disproportionate fear consistently triggered by exposure to potential social security that leads to intense anxiety about being evaluated negatively, so trigger situations are avoided or else endured with intense anxiety for atleast 6 months.
Social Anxiety Disorder (Social Phobia)
Recurrent unexpected panic attacks and atleast 1 months of concern about the possibility of more attacks or the consequences of an attack or maladaptive behavioral changes because of the attacks.
Panic Disorder
Disproportionate or marked fear or anxiety about atleast 2 situations where it would be difficult to escape or receive help in the event of incapacitation, embarrassing symptoms or panic-like symptoms. These situations are avoided, require the presence of a companion or endured with intense fear or anxiety for atleast 6 months.
Agoraphobia
Excessive anxiety or worry at least 50% of days about a number of events or activities that the person finds it hard to control the worry, sustained for atleast 6 months. The anxiety or worry are associated with atleast 3 (1 for children) or the following: restlessness or feeling keyed up or on edge; easily fatigued; difficulty concentrating or mins going blank, irritability; muscle tension; sleep disturbance.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Developmentally inappropriate and excessive fear or anxiety concerning separation from those to whom the individual is attached, lasting which the fear persistent for atleast 4 weeks in children and adolescents and typically 6 months or more in adults.
Separation Anxiety Disorder
Characterized by a consistent failure to speak in social situations in which there is an expectation to speak even though the individual speaks in other situations that it interferes with normal social communication. The duration of this disturbance is atleast 1 month and not between explained by a communication disorder and does not occur exclusively during the course of autism, schizophrenia and psychotic disorder or attributable to a lack of knowledge.
Selective Mutism
What are the 6 Neurodevelopmental Disorders?
Intellectual Disability
Communication Disorders
Autism Spectrum Disorder
ADHD (Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder)
Specific Learning Disorder
Motor Disorder
What are the 5 Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders?
Schizotypal Personality Disorder
Schizophrenia
Delusional Disorder
Schizoaffective Disorder
Schizophreniform Disorder
What are the 5 Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders?
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders
Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Hoarding Disorder
Hair-Pulling (Trichotillomania) Disorder
Skin-Picking (Excoriation) Disorder
Characterized by obsession or compulsions that are time consuming and cause significant distress and impairment but not attributable to direct physiological effects or substances or any medical condition.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Intrusive and recurring thoughts, images or impulses that are persistent and uncontrollable.
Obsessions
Repetitive, clearly excessive behaviors or metal acts that the person feels driven to perform to reduce the anxiety caused by obsessive thoughts or to prevent some calamity from occurring.
Compulsions
Preoccupation with one or more perceived defects in appearance. The person has performed repetitive behaviors or mental acts and preoccupation with appearance can interfere with many aspects of functioning. It is not restricted to concerns about weight or body fat.
Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Persistent difficulty discarding or parting with possessions, regardless of their actual value. Perceived need to save items and distress associated with discarding. The symptoms result in the accumulation of a large number of possessions that clutter active living spaces to the extent that their intended use is compromised unless others intervene.
Hoarding Disorder
Recurrent pulling out of one’s hair, resulting in hair loss with repeated attempts to decrease or stop it.
Trichotillomania ( Hair-Pulling Disorder)
Recurrent skin picking resulting in skin lesions with repeated attempts to decrease or stop it.
Excoriation (Skin Picking Disorder)
What are the 5 Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders?
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
Acute Stress Disorder
Adjustment Disorders
Reactive Attachment Disorder
Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder
Absence or grossly underdeveloped attachment between the child and putative caregiving adults, characterized by a persistent social and emotional disturbance, evident before age 5 years and atleast a developmental age of 9 months. The child has experienced a pattern of extremes of insufficient care.
Reactive Attachment Disorder
A pattern of behavior in which a child actively approaches and interacts with unfamiliar adults. The behaviors are not limited to impulsivity and the child has experienced a pattern of extremes of insufficient care.
Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder
Exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury or sexual violence. Presence of intrusion symptoms. Persistent avoidance of stimuli associated with the traumatic event. Negative alterations in cognitions and mood, marked alterations in arousal and reactivity associated with the traumatic event and functional impairment for more than 1 month.
Posttrumatic Stress Disorder
Fairly similar to those of PTSD but the duration is shorter. Symptoms occur between 3 days and 1 months after a trauma.
Acute Stress Disorder
The development of emotional or behavioral symptoms in response to an identifiable stressor occurring within 3 months of the onset of the stressor. Symptoms include: Marked distress that is out of proportion to the severity or intensity of the stressor;
Significant impairment in important areas of functioning.
Symptoms do not represent normal bereavement.
Once the stressor or its consequences have terminated, the symptoms do not persist for more than an additional 6 months.
Adjustment Disorder
What are the 3 Dissociative Disorders?
Dissociative Amnesia
Depersonalization/ Derealization Disorder
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Inability to remember important personal info, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature, that is too extensive to be ordinary forgetfulness, with functional impairment and significant distress.
Dissociative Amnesia
A subtype of Dissociative Amnesia associated with bewildered or apparently purposeful wandering.
Dissociative Fugue
Presence of persistent and recurrent experiences of depersonalization and derealization with significant distress and functional impairment. Symptoms are not explained by substances or medical conditions. Reality testing remains intact.
Depersonalization/ Derealization Disorder
Experiences of detachment from one’s mental processes or body, as though one is in a dream.
Depersonalization
Experiences of unreality of surroundings.
Derealization
Disruption of identity characterized by two or more distinct personality states (alters) or an experience of possession. The disruption may be observed by others or reported by the patient. Recurrent gaps in recalling events or important personal info that are beyond ordinary forgetting. Not attributable to substance use, medica condition or cultural/religious practice.
Dissociative Identity Disorder
What are the 4 Somatic Symptoms and Related Disorders?
Somatic Symptom Disorder
Illness Anxiety Disorder
Conversion Disorder (Functional Neurological Symptom Disorder)
Factitious Disorder
One or more somatic symptoms that are distressing or result in significant disruption in daily life. Excessive thoughts, feelings or behaviors related to the seriousness of the somatic symptoms as manifested in atleast 1 of the ff:
Persistent thoughts about the seriousness of symptoms
Persistent high level of anxiety about health or symptoms
Excessive time or energy devoted to these symptoms
Atleast 6 months.
Somatic Symptom Disorder
Preoccupation with fears of having serious disease with no significant somatic symptom present. High level of anxiety about health, leading to excessive care seeking or maladaptive avoidance behaviors for atleast 6 months.
Illness Anxiety Disorder
One or more symptoms affecting voluntary motor or sensory function. People may experience partial or complete paralysis of arms or legs, seizures and coordination disturbances; a sensation of prickling, tingling or creeping on the skin; insensitivity to pain or anesthesia. Symptoms are incompatible with recognized medical disorder.
Conversion Disorder
People fake or manufacture physical or psychological symptoms but without any apparent motive and presents himself to others as ill or injured. Deceptive behavior is evident.
Factitious Disorder
Subtype of Factitious Disorder wherein the person presents himself or herself to others as ill, impaired or injured.
Factitious Disorder on Self (Münchausen Syndrome)
Subtype of Factitious Disorder wherein the person fabricates symptoms in another person and then presents that person to others as ill, impaired or injured.
Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another
What are the 6 Feeding and Eating Disorders?
Pica Disorder
Rumination Disorder
Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder
Anorexia Nervosa
Bulimia Nervosa
Binge-eating Disorder
Persistent testing of nonnutritive, nonfood substances over a period of atleast 1 month, inappropriate to the developmental level of the individual (a minimum of age 2 years).
Pica Disorder
Repeated regurgitation of food over a period of atleast 1 month. Regurgitated food may be re-chewed, re-swallowed or spit out. Not attributable to an associated gastrointestinal or other medical condition.
Rumination Disorder
Disability manifested by clinically significant failure to meet requirements for nutrition or insufficient energy intake through oral intake of food which is not better explained by lack of available food.
Avoidant/ Restrictive Food Intake Disorder
Restriction of food that leads to very low body weight that is significantly below normal. Intense fear of weight gain or persistent behavior that interferes with weight gain, even though at a significant low weight. Body image disturbance or persistent lack of recognition of the seriousness of the current low body weight.
Anorexia Nervosa
Recurrent episodes of binge watching with compensatory behaviors to prevent weight gain, occurring on average, at least once a week for 3 months. Body shape and weight are extremely important for self evaluation.
Bulimia Nervosa
Recurrent binge eating episodes without compensatory behavior present, occurring at least once a week for 3 months.
Binge Eating Disorder
What are the 3 Groups of Sexual Dysfunctions?
Disorders Involving Sexual Interest, Desire and Arousal
Orgasmic Disorder
Genito-pelvic pain/Penetration Disorder
What are the Disorders Involving Sexual Interest, Desire and Arousal?
Female Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder
Male Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder
Erectile Disorder
What are the Orgasmic Disorders?
Female Orgasmic Disorder
Early Ejaculation
Delayed Ejaculation Disorder
Diminished, absent or reduced frequency of atleast 3 of the following for 6 months or more:
Interest in sexual activity
Erotic thoughts or fantasies
Initiation of sexual activity and responsiveness to partner’s attempts to initiate
Sexual excitement/pleasure during 75% of sexual encounters
Sexual Interest/arousal elicited by any internal or external erotic cues
Genital or no genital sensations during 75% of sexual encounters.
Female Sexual Interest/ Arousal Disorder
Persistently or recurrently deficient (or absent) sexual/erotic thoughts or fantasies and desire for sexual activity for months. Minimum duration of approximately 6 months.
Male Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder
Inability to attain an erection or maintain an erection for completion of sexual activity or marked decrease in erectile rigidity interferes with penetration or pleasure on at least 75% of sexual occasions for 6 months.
Erectile Disorder
Marked delay, infrequency or absence of orgasm, or reduced intensity of orgasmic sensation on atleast 75% of sexual occasions for 6 months.
Female Orgasmic Disorder
Tendency to ejaculate during partnered sexual activity within 1 minute of sexual activity on atleast 75% of sexual occasions for 6 months.
Early Ejaculation
Marked delay, infrequency or absence of orgasm on atleast 75% of sexual occasions for 6 months.
Delayed Ejaculation Disorder
Persistent or recurrent difficultues for atleast 6 months with atleast 1 of the ff:
Inability to have vaginal penetration during intercourse
Marked vulvovaginal or pelvic pain during vaginal penetration or intercourse attempts
Marked fear or anxiety about pain or penetration.
Marked tensing of the pelvic floor muscles during tempted vaginal penetration.
Genito-pelvic Pain/Penetration Disorder
Recurring/ Intense sexual arousal to atypical objects/situations/etc.
Paraphilic Disorder
What are the 8 Paraphilic Disorders?
Exhibitionistic Disorder
Voyeuristic Disorder
Sexual Masochism Disorder
Sexual Sadism Disorder
Fetishistic Disorder
Frotteuristic Disorder
Tranvestic Disorder
Pedophilic Disorder
Recurrent and intense sexual arousal from the exposure of one’s genitals to an unsuspecting person, as manifested by fantasies, urges or behaviors over a period of at least 6 months.
Exhibitionistic Disorder
Recurrent and intense sexual arousal from observing an unsuspecting person who is naked, in the process of disrobing or engaing in sexual activity , as manifested by fantasies, urges or behaviors over a period of at least 6 months. The individual is atleast 18 years of age.
Voyeuristic Disorder
Recurrent and intense sexual arousal from the act of being humiliated, beaten, bound or otherwise made to suffer, as manifested by fantasies, urges or behavior.
Sexual Masochism Disorder
Recurrent and intense sexual arousal from either the use of nonliving objects or a highly specific focus on no genital body part, as manifested by fantasies, urges or behaviors, not limited to articles of clothing used in cross dressing or device.
Fetishistic Disorder
Recurrent and intense sexual arousal touching or rubbing against an unsuspecting person, as manifested by fantasies, urges or behaviors.
Frotteuristic Disorder
Recurrent and intense sexual arousal from crossdressing as manifested by fantasies, urges or behaviors.
Transvestic Disorder
Recurrent and intense sexual arousing fantasies, urges or behaviors involving sexual activity with a prepubescent child or children (generally age 13 years or younger) that causes marked distress or interpersonal difficulty.
Pedophilic Disorder
Atleast what age should an individual be to be diagnosed as having Pedophilic Disorder and atleast how many years older than the child?
16 years old
5 years older
A marked incongruence between one’s experienced/ expressed gender and assigned gender for atleast 6 months of duration.
Gender Dysphoria
What are the 6 Disruptive, Impulse Control and Conduct Disorders?
Oppositional Defiant Disorder
Intermittent explosive Disorder
Conduct Disorder
Antisocial personality Disorder
Pyromania
Kleptomania
A pattern of angry/irritable mood, argumentative/ defiant behavior or vindictiveness lasting atleast 6 months, associated with distress.
Oppositional Defiant Disorder
Recurrent behavioral outbursts representing a failure to control aggressive impulse, wherein the magnitude of aggressiveness expressed during outbursts is grossly out of proportion to the provocation, and not premeditated or not committed to achieve some tangible objectives.
Intermittent Explosive Disorder
A repetitive and persistent pattern of behavior in which the basic rights of others or major age -appropriate societal norms or rules are violated, as manifested by the presence of the following criteria in the past 12 months; 6 months duration.
-Aggression to People and Animals
-Destruction of Property
-Deceitfulness or Theft
-Serious Violation of rules
If the individual is under age 18 years.
Conduct Disorder
Deliberate and purposeful fire setting on more than one occasion. Tension or affective arousal before the act. Fascination with, interest in, curiousity about or attraction to fire and its situational contexts. Pleasure, gratification or relief when setting fires or when witnessing or participating in their aftermath.
Pyromania
Recurrent failure to resist impulses to steal objects that are not needed for personal use or for their monetary value. Increasing sense of tension immediately before committing the theft but pleasure, gratification or relief at the time of committing the theft.
Kleptomania
What are the substance related and addictive Disorders?
Substance use Disorder
Gambling use Disorder
Maladaptive pattern, recurrent of substance use leading to clinically significant impairment or distress with characteristic of withdrawal syndrome depending on substance and persistent desire to cut down or decrease substance use. Drug seeking behavior.
Substance use Disorder
Persistent and recurrent problematic gambling behavior leading to clinically significant impairment or distress as indicated by the individual exhibiting four or more of the symptoms.
Gambling Disorder
What are the 3 Clusters of Personality Disorders?
Cluster A- Odd/Eccentric
Cluster B- Dramatic/Errotic
Cluster C- Fearful/Anxious
What are included in the 3 Clusters of Personality Disorders?
A- Paranoid, Schizoid, Schizotypal
B- Antisocial, Borderline, Histrionic, Narcissistic
C- Avoidant, Dependent, Obsessive-Compulsive
Presence of 4 or more of the ff signs of distrust and suspiciousness:
-Unjustified suspiciousness of being harmed, deceived or exploited
-Unwarranted doubts about loyalty or trustworthiness of friends or associates
-Reluctance to confide in others because of suspiciousness
-Tendency to read hidden meanings into the benign action of others
-Bears grudges for perceived wrongs
-Angry reactions to perceived attacks on character or reputation
-Unwarranted suspiciousness of the fidelity of partner
Paranoid
Presence of 4 or more of the ff signs of interpersonal detachment and restricted emotion:
-Lack of desire for or enjoyment of close relationships
-Almost always prefers solitude to companionship
-Little interest in sex
-Few or no pleasurable activities
-Lack of friends
-Indifference to praise or criticism
-Flat affect, emotional detachment
Schizoid
Presence of 5 or more of the ff:
-Ideas or reference
-Odd beliefs or magical thinking
-Unusual perceptions
-Odd patterns of thought and speech
-Suspiciousness or paranoia
-Inappropriate or restricted affect
-Odd or eccentric behavior or appearance
-Lack of close friends
-Anxiety around other people, which does not diminish with familiarity
Schizotypal
Individual with age atleast 18, with evidence of conduct disorder before age 15. Pervasive pattern of disregard for the rights of others since then age of 15 as shown by atleast 3 of the ff:
-Repeated law breaking
-Deceitfulness, lying
-Impulsivity
-Irritability and aggressiveness
-Reckless disregard for own safety and that of others
-Irresponsibility as seen in unreliable employment or financial history
-Lack of remorse
Antisocial
Presence of 5 or more of the ff:
-Frantic efforts to avoid abandonment
-Unstable interpersonal relationships in which others are either idealized or devalued
-Unstable sense of self
-Self damaging, impulsive behaviors in atleast 2 areas
-Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or self injurious behavior
-Marked mood reactivity
-Chronic feelings of emptiness
-Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or self injurious behavior
-Marked mood reactivity
-Chronic feelings of emptiness
-Recurrent bouts of intense or poorly uncontrolled anger
-During stress, a tendency to experience transient paranoid thoughts and dissociative symptoms.
Borderline
Presence of 5 or more of the ff signs of excessive emotionality and attention seeking:
-Strong need to be the center of attention
-Inappropriate sexually seductive behavior
-Rapid shifting expression of emotions
-Use of physical appearance to draw attention to self
-Speech that is excessively impressionistic and lacking in detail
-Exaggerated, theatrical emotional expression
-Overly suggestible
-Misreads relationships as more intimate than they are.
Histrionic
Presence of 5 or more of the ff:
- Grandiose view of one’s importance
-Preoccupation with one’s success, brilliance, beauty
-Belief that one is special and can be understood only by other high-status people
-Extreme need for admiration
-Strong sense of entitlement
-Tendency to exploit others
-Lack of empathy
-Envious of others
-Arrogant behavior or attitudes
Narcissistic
A pervasive pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy and hypersensitivity to criticism as shown by 4 or more of the ff:
-Avoidance of occupational activities that involve significant interpersonal contact, because of fears of criticism or disapproval.
-Unwilling to get involved with people unless certain of being liked
-Restrained in intimate relationships because of the fear of being shamed or ridiculed
-Preoccupation with being criticized or rejected
-Inhibited in new interpersonal situations because of feelings of inadequacy
-Views self as socially inept or inferior
-Unusually reluctant to try new activities because they may prove embarrassing
Avoidant
An excessive need to be taken care of, as shown by the presence of atleast 5 of the ff:
-Difficulty making decisions without excessive advice and reassurance from others
-Need for others to take responsibility for most major areas of life
-Difficulty disagreeing with others for fear of losing their support.
-Difficulty doing things on our own or starting projects because of lack of self-confidence
-Doing unpleasant things as a way to obtain the approval and support of others
-Feelings of helplessness when alone because of fears of being unable to care for self
-Urgently seeking a new relationship when one ends.
-Preoccupation with fears of having to take care of self.
Dependent
Intense need for order, perfection and control as shown by the presence of atleast 4 of the ff:
-preoccupation with rules, details and organization to the extent that the point of an activity is lost
-Extreme perfectionism interferes with task completion
-Excessive devotion to work to the exclusion of leisure and friendships
-Inflexibility about morals and values
-Difficulty discarding worthless items
-Reluctance to delegate unless others conform to one’s standards
-Miserliness
-Rigidity and stubbornness
Obsessive-compulsive
Personality Disorders usually present symptoms on what period?
Early adulthood
