personality disorders Flashcards
List out the types of PDs from this cluster: “Odd or eccentric behaviors as the core characteristic” (Cluster A)
- Paranoid
- Schizoid
- Schizotypal
List out the types of PDs from this cluster: “Dramatic, emotional or erratic manifestations” (Cluster B)
- Borderline
- Antisocial
- Narcissistic
- Histrionic
List out the types of PDs from this cluster: “Anxious or fearful behaviors” (Cluster C)
- Avoidant
- Dependent
- OCPD
What PD do these symptoms relate to:
- Everyone is out to harm him
- Pervasive distrust and suspicion
- Constant vigilance & scanning of environment
- Bears grudges easily
- Could be due to childhood issue
- Fear of dependency
- Makes it difficult to form r/s
- Tend to be extremely serious & lack a sense of humor
- May appear rational & objective
Paranoid
What PD do these symptoms relate to:
- Shy, timid, aloof
- Anxious around people
- Self-perceived awkwardness
- Withdrawn, difficult to build r/s
- Likes intellectual; abstract & mechanical devices
- Not odd like schizotypal
- Not hostile like paranoid
Schizoid
What PD do these symptoms relate to:
- Avoid close r/s
- Odd thinking, feeling & behaviour
- Perceives self in an odd way too
- Not delusional but eccentric & peculiar
- Possible pathological issue but less severe than schizophrenia
- Can experience high levels of anxiety & regress to child-like behaviors
Schizotypical
What PD do these symptoms relate to:
- Impulsivity & unstable mood
- Over-sensitivity & relating to the world
- High-risk for self-injury & demands
- Fear of closeness & abandonment
- Suicidal threats– usually manipulative
- Depression is likely to co-exist with this PD due to chronic feelings of emptiness & sadness
Borderline
What PD do these symptoms relate to:
- Tend to be dishonest
- Disregard the rights of others
- Constant trouble with law
- Impulsive
- Lack of remorse
- See the world as “dog eat dog”
- Exploit others if they are weak
Antisocial
What PD do these symptoms relate to:
- Self-absorbed
- Arrogant, dismissive
- Superficially thoughtful lack of empathy
- Only go with those they deem worthy
- Interprets threats to self-worth as catastrophic
Narcissistic
What PD do these symptoms relate to:
- Usually high functioning people with good social skills but tend to be manipulative
- Wants to be in the centre of attraction
- Low tolerance to criticism
- Blaming personal failures on others
- Being easily influenced by others, especially those who treat them approvingly
- Being overly dramatic & emotional
Histrionic
What PD do these symptoms relate to:
- oversensitive & easily hurt by criticism or disapproval
- experience extreme anxiety & fear in social settings & in r/s
- tend to exaggerate potential problems
- poor self image, seeing themselves as inadequate & inferior
Avoidant
What PD do these symptoms relate to:
- Find it difficult to relate to others & people find it difficult to relate to them
- Passive
- Tries to please others
- Needy
- Fear of abandonment
Dependent
What PD do these symptoms relate to:
- Very common
- Orderly; frugal; conformist
- Seek control and fear of internal drives
- Inflexibilities in life leads to difficulties & withdrawal from situations
OCPD
Difference between personality and personality disorder.
Personality: A person’s unique bio-psychosocial characteristics that consistently influences inner experience and behavior across the lifespan.
Personality disorder: A lifelong behavioral pattern that negatively affects many areas of life, causes problems, and is not produced by another disorder or illness ( depression, bipolar, schizo are all major psychiatric diagnosis)
Maladaptiveness is most evident in
THINKING; FEELING & BEHAVIOUR.
