Personality Disorders

Question 1

What are cluster A personality disorders?

Answer 1

Difficult social interaction and thoughts that don’t conform to reality.

Paranoid
Schizoid
Schizotypal

Question 2

What are cluster B personality disorders?

Answer 2

Highly emotional and dramatic, and extremely unpredictable.
Borderline/emotionally unstable
Narcissistic 
Antisocial 
Histrionic

Question 3

What are cluster C personality disorders?

Answer 3

Focused on anxiety and fear.
Obsessive compulsive
Dependent
Avoidant

Question 4

What is Paranoid personality disorder?

Answer 4

General distrust of others that gets in the way of ordinary relating

Question 5

What is Schizoid personality disorder?

Answer 5

• Outwardly indifferent to social contact with others.
• Often strikingly unbothered by lack of sociality
• Rich fantasy life

Question 6

What is Schizotypal personality disorder?

Answer 6

• Schizophrenia spectrum condition
• Very odd, incredibly eccentric
• Psychotic-like experiences, intuitions, magical thoughts etc

Question 7

What is Borderline personality disorder?

Answer 7

• Distressed when relationships are strained, difficult behaviours to try and manage strong feelings
• Make frantic efforts to avoid abandonment
• Tendency to be unsure about one’s identity

Question 8

What is Narcissistic personality disorder?

Answer 8

• Have a very high opinion of themselves and a very little sense of what matters to other people
• Have a deep sense of inadequacy that is very painful for them to acknowledge

Question 9

What is Antisocial personality disorder?

Answer 9

• Persistent clinical conduct and a tendency of remorselessness to those affected by it
• Comes in a spectrum: Antisocial conduct, callousness, enjoyment of violence, and psychopathic

Question 10

What is Histrionic personality disorder?

Answer 10

• Dramatic displays of emotion that seem to ring hollow

- May be openly flirtatious and continuously seeking appreciation

Question 11

What is Obsessive compulsive personality disorder?

Answer 11

It’s not OCD.

• Tendency to obstinateness, rigidity and significant anxiety at anything that is not orderly
• Presentation may be due to associated anxiety which is lifelong.

Question 12

What is Dependent personality disorder?

Answer 12

Marked difficulty assuming appropriate adult responsibilities and defers to others in all areas

Question 13

What is Avoidant personality disorder?

Answer 13

• Avoidant traits to avoid conflict and to put off problems.
• Build up a large number of problems to become more and more depressed.