Personality Disorders Flashcards
People with this personality cluster can be described as withdrawn, cold, suspicious, or irrational
Cluster A personality disorders: Paranoid, Schizoid, Schizotypal
Those within this personality cluster tend to be rather theatrical, emotional, and attention-seeking; their moods are labile and often shallow. They often have intense interpersonal conflicts.
Cluster B personality disorders: Antisocial, Borderline, Histrionic, Narcissistic
Someone within this personality cluster will tend to be anxious and tense, often overcontrolled.
Cluster C personality disorders: Avoidant, Dependent, Obsessive-Compulsive
These people are suspicious and quick to take offense. They often have few confidants and may read hidden meaning into innocent remarks. They suspect that other people want to deceive, hurt or exploit them and hesitate to share personal information. Can hold grudges or respond rapidly with ager or attacks to unjustified suspicions of others.
Paranoid personality disorder
These patients care little for social relationships, have a restricted emotional range, and seem indifferent to criticism or praise. Tending to be solitary, they avoid close (including sexual) relationships.
Schizoid personality disorder
Interpersonal relationships are so difficult for these people that they appear peculiar or strange to others. They lack close friends and are uncomfortable in social situations. They may show suspiciousness, unusual perceptions or thinking, eccentric speech, and inappropriate affect.
Schizotypal personality disorder
The irresponsible, often criminal behavior of these people begins in childhood or early adolescence with truancy, running away, cruelty, fighting, destructiveness, lying, and theft. In addition to criminal behavior, as adults they may default on debts or otherwise behave irresponsibly; act recklessly or impulsively; and show no remorse for their behavior
Antisocial personality disorder
These impulsive people engage in behavior harmful to themselves (sexual adventures, unwise spending, excessive use of substances or food). Exist in a perpetual crisis of mood or behavior. Affectively unstable, they often show intense, inappropriate anger. They feel empty or bored, and they frantically try to avoid abandonment. They are uncertain about who they are, and they lack the ability to maintain stable interpersonal relationships.
Borderline personality disorder
Overly emotional, vague, and desperate for attention, these people need constant reassurance about their attractiveness. They may be self-centered and sexually seductive.
Histrionic personality disorder
These people are self-important and often preoccupied with envy, fantasies of success, or rumiations about the uniqueness of their own problems. Their sense of entitlement and lack of compassion may cause them to take advantage of others. They vigorously reject criticism and need constant attention and admiration. Often arrogant or haughty, and lack empathy. Typically exaggerate their own abilities and accomplishments.
Narcissistic personality disorder
These timid people are so easily wounded by criticism that they hesitate to become involved with others. They may fear the embarrassment of showing emotion or of saying things that seem foolish. They may have no close friends, and they exaggerate the risks of undertaking pursuits outside their usual routines.
Avoidant personality disorder
These people so much need the approval of others that they have trouble making independent decisions or starting projects; they may even agree with others whom they know to be wrong. They fear abandonment, feel helpless when they are alone, and are miserable when relationships end. They are easily hurt by criticism and will even volunteer for unpleasant tasks to gain the favor of others.
Dependent personality disorder
Control, orderliness, perfection and rigidity characterizes these people. They are often workaholics, and they tend to be indecisive, excessively scrupulous, and preoccupied with detail. They insist that others do things their way. They have trouble expressing affection, tend to lack generosity, and may even resist throwing away worthless objects they no longer need.
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
There is a lasting pattern of behavior and internal experience (thoughts, feelings, sensations) that is clearly different from the patient’s culture. This pattern includes problems with affect (type, intensity, lability, appropriateness); cognition (how the patient sees and interprets self and the environment); control of impulses; and interpersonal relationships. This pattern is fixed and applies broadly across the patient’s social and personal life.
General personality disorder
A physical illness or injury appears to have caused a patient to suffer a lasting personality change.
Personality change due to another medical condition.
