Personality Disorders

Question 1

Cluster A

Answer 1

Schizoid
Schizotypal
Paranoid

Question 2

Schizoid PD

Answer 2

Schizoid ‘AVOIDs’ people, they prefer their own company and don’t feel the need to have personal connections

Question 3

Schiotypal PD

Answer 3

Schizotypal have magical thinking and may be a bit eccentric. NO hallucinations

Question 4

Paranoid PD

Answer 4

Mistrustful and suspicious of others. May isolate themselves and will have short lived delusions

Question 5

Cluster B

Answer 5

Naricssistic
Histrionic
Borderline
Antisocial

Question 6

Patients express delusions of their own importance. They are often exploitive and self consumed. Demand the best for themselves and are often jealous of others.

Answer 6

Narcissistic PD

Question 7

Patients are attention seeking with excessive contrived emotion over the top action and dress and can be hypersexual.

Answer 7

Histrionic

Question 8

Patients teeter on the border of psychosis and neurosis. They often complain of emotional numbness, are impulsive, engage in prematurity and drugs, self harm, and may attempt suicide for attention. They frequently exhibit splitting and can have rapidly changing moods

Answer 8

Borderline PD

Question 9

Cluster C

Answer 9

Avoidant
Dependent
OCPD

Question 10

Shy, fear criticism, feelings of inadequacy, fear of rejection. Want closeness but don’t know how to go for it.

Answer 10

Avoidant PD

Question 11

Submissive, clingy, rely on others for decision making

Answer 11

Dependent PD

Question 12

How do we distinguish avoidant PD from schizoid?

Answer 12

Schizoid= egosyntonic
Avoidant= egodystonic

Question 13

Precursor to antisocial pd

Answer 13

conduct disorder

Question 14

Rigid orderliness and perfectionism to a fault

Answer 14

OCPD