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Personality Disorders Flashcards

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What is a personality disorder?

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  • Enduring pattern of inner experience or behaviour that deviates markedly from the expectations of an individual’s culture and not manifestations of another mental or physical illness and result in distress or impairment in normal function.
  • Developmental conditions that appear in childhood or adolescence and continue to adult life
  • Cannot be explained as manifestation or consequence of other adult mental health disorders
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What does a personality disorder have to be?

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  • Pervasive
  • Inflexible
  • Maladaptive
  • Dysfunctional
  • Cause personal distress
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What are cluster A personality disorders known as?

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The odd and eccentric

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Three personality disorders in cluster A?

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  • Paranoid personality disorder
  • Schizoid personality disorder
  • Schizotypal personality disorder
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Paranoid personality disorder criteria?

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4 of:
-Excessive sensitivity to setbacks

  • Suspiciousness and tendency to misconstrue neutral/friendly actions of others as hostile/contemptuous
  • Combative and tenacious sense of personal rights out of keeping with actual situation
  • Recurrent suspicions without justification regarding sexual fidelity of partner
  • Persistent self-referral attitude assoc particularly with excessive self-importance
  • Preoccupation with unsubstained conspirational explanations of events in world at large
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Remembering criteria for paranoid personality disorder?

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  • Setbacks
  • Stroppy
  • Suspicious
  • Strange sense of personal rights
  • Sex suspiciousness
  • Self importance
  • conSPIRACY theories
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Criteria for schizoid personality disorder?

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4 of:

  • Few, if any, activities provide pleasure
  • Emotional coldness, detachment
  • Limited capacity to express warm feelings for others
  • Indifferent to praise or criticism
  • Little interests in sexual experiences with another person
  • Almost always solitary
  • XSive preoccupation with fantasy
  • Neither desires nor has any close friends (or only one)
  • Marked insensitivity to prevailing social norms
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Which personality type overlaps with autism?

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Schizoid personality disorder

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Criteria for schizotypal personality disorder?

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5 of:

  • Ideas of reference
  • Odd beliefs or magical thinking inconsistent with subcultural norms
  • Unusual perceptual experience including bodily illusions
  • Odd thinking and speech
  • Suspicious or paranoid ideation
  • Inappropriate or constricted affect
  • Behaviour or appearance that is off, eccentric
  • Lack of close friends or confidants other than 1st degree relatives
  • XSive social anxiety that does not diminish with familiarity
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General vibe of paranoid personality disorder?

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Suspiciously sensitive

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General vibe of schizoid personality disorder?

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Odd and antisocial

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General vibe of schizotypal personality disorder?

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Eccentric and deluded

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What are ideas of reference are?

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False beliefs that random or irrelevant occurrences in the world directly relates to a person

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What are cluster B personalities refereed to as?

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The dramatic and emotional (B for baby carriers, cause if you’re pregnant you could also be dramatic and emotional)

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Criteria for dissocial personality disorder?

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3 of:
- Callous unconcern for feelings of others

  • Irresponsible and disregards social norms, rules or obligations
  • Incapacity to maintain enduring relationships though no difficulty in establishing them
  • Very low tolerance to frustration and low threshold for aggression/ violence
  • Incapacity to experience guilt or profit from adverse experience particularly punishment
  • Marked proneness to blame others
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Criteria for emotionally unstable impulsive personality disorder?

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3 of:
- Tendency to act unexpectedly without consideration of consequences

  • Quarrelsome behaviour and conflicts with others especially when impulsive acts are thwarted/ criticized
  • Liability to outbursts of anger or violence
  • Difficulty in maintaining any course of action that offers no immediate reward
  • Unstable mood
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Criteria for emotionally unstable borderline personality disorder?

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Need to have 2 from impulsive plus 2 of:

  • Disturbances in an uncertainty about self-image, aims and internal preferences (including sexual)
  • Intense and unstable relationships often leading to emotional crisis
  • XSive efforts to avoid abandonment
  • Recurrent threats or acts of self harm
  • Chronic feelings of emptiness
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Criteria for histrionic personality disorder?

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5 of:
-Grandiose logic of self-importance

  • Fixation with fantasies of infinite success, control, brilliance
  • Credence that he or she is extraordinary
  • Desire for unwarranted admiration
  • Sense of entitlement
  • Interpersonally oppressive behaviour
  • No form of empathy
  • Resentful of others/thinks other resent them
  • Display of egotistical behaviours or attitudes
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General vibe of dissocial personality disroder?

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Teenage fuck boy

(Unconcern for others feelings, incapacity to maintain relationships, irresponsible, low frustration tolerance, blames others)

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General vibe of unstable impulsive personality disorder?

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On a permanent gap year, flaky problem child who has tantrums

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General vibe of emotionally unstable borderline personality disorder?

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Confused person searching for meaning of life

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General vibe of histrionic personality disorder?

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Dictator (voldemort) sort of vibe

(self important, fantasies of control, entitled, unwarranted admiration desire, no empathy, resentful of other, egotistical)

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What are cluster C perosnalities?

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The anxious and avoidant

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Criteria for anankastic personality disorder?

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4 of:

  • XSive doubt of caution
  • Preoccupation with details, rules, lists, order, organisation or schedule
  • Perfectionism that interferes with task completion
  • Undue preoccupation with productivity to Xclusion of pleasure
  • Rigidity and stubbornness
  • Unreasonable insistence that others submit exactly to their way of doing things
  • Pedantic XSive adherance to social conventions
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General vibe of anankastic personality disorder?

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Sheldon from BBT

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Criteria for anxious personality disorder?

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4 of:

  • Persistent pervasive feelings of tension/apprehension
  • Belief that oneself is socially inept/inferior to others
  • XSive preoccupation with being criticized/rejected in social situations
  • Restrictions in lifestyle because of need for security
  • Avoidance of social or occupational activities that involve significant interpersonal contact because of fear of criticism, rejection or disproval
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General vibe of anxious personality disorder?

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Shy people pleaser

MIFY

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Criteria for dependant personality disorder?

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4 of:

  • Encouraging or allowing others to make most of ones important life decisions
  • Subordination of ones own needs to those of others on whom one id dependant and undue compliance with their wishes
  • Unwillingness to make even reasonable demands on the people one depends on
  • Feeling uncomfortable or helpless when alone because of exaggerated fears of inability to care for oneself
  • Limited capacity to make everyday decisions without XSive amount of advice/reassurance
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Treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder?

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Special type of CBT called dialectical behaviour therapy

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Most common cluster?

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Cluster C

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Least common cluster?

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Cluster B

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