Personality Disorders Flashcards
What is personality
- traits and attributes someone has (calm, though, focused)
- involves how you interpret the world around you and how you respond to it
- lots of complexity
- every personality is unique but we can classify
- patterns of thinking, have some level of consistency in how you see the world
- can be profound, lead trajectory in life, relationships, professions, and where you live.
Trait theory
Stable and lasting behavior patterns and conscious motivations
- we have traits we are born with
- trait where biologically engineered part of us, connected to genetics and wired into our brains, default traits.
- lots show up early and proceed throughout life
5 big traits
Openness- respond to new ideas
Conscientiousness- react to others
Extraversion- responds to others
Agreeableness
Neuroticism- how deviated from social norms
OCEAN
good starting spot for understanding personality
our personality is related to our
social groups we are connected to, influence behavior and social norms
huge connection between environment socialization and how they are thinking about these things
how you react in a situation is on the spectrum of
internal and external locus of control
Ex: going out with friends doing cocaine- other friend asks what was that how you respond will determine the internal or external locus of control
Internal- I thought about it and knew I was safe
External- it was my friends, I felt like I had to, to stay friends with them, motivation and decision-making was based on something outside of you.
personality is
a persistent and enduring pattern of behavior
trait theory gave us this definition
don’t have to worry about who I am in every different env.
parts of personality you are exploring but you are the same person as you were.
Personality is how we ___, ___ and ____
think, feel and act
personality is towards
ourselves ,others and our environment
most rapid growth of our personalities
- infancy, and childhood toddlers
- puberty as teens
adolescents personality development
- a massive spike in brain development
- adding more to personality
who am I - self-esteem
- your interaction with others
- romantic relationships
Personality disorders are ______developed or ________ developed
Incompletely or fractured
Trauma
present and unsurprisingly severe trauma in either toddlerhood or adolescents or both.
during periods in toddlerhood and adolescence where the amount of energy your brain is putting into developing your personality construct if we see trauma in those areas we almost invariably see some sort of expression of personality just no it doesn’t mean that a conclusive diagnosis of course but it’s certainly raises the risk not a coincidence
4 characteristics of personality disorders
1- extensive disability in work and personal relationships
2- difficulty accurately perceiving and interpreting the world and others around them.
3- inappropriate emotional responses both in range and intensity to stress, happening in the environment or interpersonally.
4- great deal of difficulty with impulse control (ego syntonic)
Ego syntonic
see yourself as operating and functioning as normal, others are out of control
PBD diagnosis
Wait until adulthood to diagnose but patterns have to have been in their whole life
