Personality Disorders

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Enduring characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling, and behavior that make a person unique.

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Personality

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Elements that comprise a person’s personality are called:

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Personality traits

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When established personality patterns result in repeated conflicts with others and impair the person’s ability to function in society, that person is said to suffer from:

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a Personality Disorder (PD)

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These are independent of mental disorders and substance abuse and are generally consistent over time & across varying situations.

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Personality Disorders.

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When do PDs typically manifest?

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Adolescence

-Continue through lifespan - may diminish with age.

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Controlling and taking advantage of others.

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Manipulation

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Acting without regard to potential consequences

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Impulsiveness

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Believing oneself is superior and worthy or special treatment.

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Narcissism

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Three common behaviors people with PDs demonstrate:

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• manage stress by attempting to change environment
• fails to take responsibility for own actions
• lack understanding of how their behavior affects others

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Behaving according to beliefs, desires, and values that concur with the persons disorder.
They see themselves as normal & view problems with others as external to themselves - believe they are victims.

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Ego-syntonic

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5 Trait domains associated with PD’s

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• Antagonism
• Detachment
• Disinhibition
• Negative affectivity
• Psychoticism

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Composed of manipulativeness, deceitfulness, callousness, aggression, hostility, grandiosity & attention seeking behaviors.

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Antagonism

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Composed of withdrawal, intimacy avoidance, anhedonia, restricted affectivity.

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Detachment

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Noted for the presence of irresponsibility, imipulsivity and risk taking activities.

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Disinhibition

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Refers to anxiousness, emotional liability, separation insecurity, depressivity, perseveration, and suspiciousness.

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Negative affectivity

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Composed of eccentricity; cognitive & perceptual dysregulation and unusual beliefs & experiences.

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Psychoticism

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Propensity to manipulate or violate others’ rights with a disregard for their feelings and the consequences. RISK: caretaker w/ disorder, abuse. 2Xs more men. MANI: lack remorse, risk-taking behavior. TRAITS: antagonism, disinhibition. Must be 18.

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Antisocial personality disorder

ASPD

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Extreme shyness and fear of rejection. MANI: Low self-esteem, poor social skills, extreme sensitivity to criticism & unrealistic expectations r/t goal achievement. TRAITS: Detachment and Negative affectivity.

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Avoidant PD 
(APD)

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Inclination to perceive people or situations as one extreme or the other.
All good or all bad.

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Splitting

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Symptoms on border or psychosis & neurosis. MANI: impulsivity, unstable emotions, depression, self-harm common, Splitting is common and may cause extreme mood shifts. GENETIC: 5xs more likely if first degree relative has it. TRAITS: disinhibition, negative affectivity, antagonism.

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Borderline PD

BPD

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Need to be cared for, difficult decision making, separation anxiety, impaired self-confidence. Seek out partners with dominant traits. View themselves as dumb.

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Dependent PD (DPD)

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Self-centered and dramatic. Behaves erratically to garner attention. Strong sense of inadequacy. Person needs love & reassurance but fails to demonstrate empathy and lacks consideration of others. May be highly sexualized. May act out w/ suicidal behaviors if needs for attention & affection are not fulfilled.

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Histrionic PD

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Sense of grandiosity, inability to empathize with others & attention-seeking behaviors. Substance-abuse disorders, eating disorders & depression commonly found in conjunction. MORE MEN. Extreme reliance on others perceptions and/or inflated sense of self. Difficult to develop relationships. TRAIT: antagonism (grandiosity & attention seeking).

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Narcissistic PD

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Significant impairment in social function & relationships, all-consuming desire to achieve perfection in ALL tasks.
-Does not see anything dysfunctional about their behaviors or thoughts.
-Great productivity at jobs
-Places strain on relationships
-Men twice as likely
TRAITS: compulsivity, negative affectivity

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Obsessive-Compulsive PD

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Extreme social anxiety & eccentric behavior. Depersonalization occurs: feel apart from own body. Derealization occurs. May progress to point where schizophrenia Dx applied. Difficulty establishing boundaries, misunderstand others motives & actions, exhibit lack of understanding of how their behavior affects others. TRAITS: Psychoticism, Detachment, negative affectivity.

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Schizotypal PD

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aloofness, tendency to prefer solitary activities, absence of humor, uninterested in forming relationships, includes romantic. Functional abilities vary – some able to function within society – others are institutionalized.

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Schizoid PD

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Inability to trust others: actions of others seen as having underlying theme of malevolence. Suspicious, mistrusting, prejudicial & judgemental, rigid inflexible world views – reject logical proof that contradicts their beliefs. Hypervigilance.

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Paranoid PD

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person feel apart from their body - an overall strangeness r/t the physical self.

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Depersonalization

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Feeling disconnected from their own body

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Derealization