Personality Disorders

Question 1

What are the 3 general types of PD?

Answer 1

Cluster A - Odd
Cluster B - Dramatic
Cluster C - anxious

Question 2

How do you define a PD?

Answer 2

When you have traits which have been persistant, cause you or others significant distress and are outside of social norms

Question 3

What is personality?

Answer 3

A set of traits which make up who you are, how you react to the world around you, which are constant throughout life

Question 4

What are the cluster A PDs?

Think how to describe each of them

Answer 4

Paranoid (self importance, suspicious, jealous)
Schizoid (All alone)
Schizotypal (Bit odd, magical thinking)

Question 5

What are the cluster B PDs?

Think how to describe each of them

Answer 5

Emotionally Unstable
Histrionic (dramatic, flirty, attention seeking, shallow)
Dissocial (Antisocial, poor relationships, empathy, anger)

Question 6

What are the cluster C PDs?

Think how to describe each of them

Answer 6

Avoidant (fearful of judgement, socialising, rejection)
Dependent (like a child, always needs someone)
Anankastic (Monica from FRIENDS)

Question 7

Which PDs do we most commonly encounter?

Answer 7

EUPD in the general population

Dissocial in prisons (around 50% of inmates have0

Question 8

Prevalence of PDs?

Answer 8

5%

Question 9

What is the difference between OCD and Anankastic PD?

Answer 9

The obsessions in OCD are egodystonic and cause the person distress whereas anankastic PD likes the order and obsessions

Question 10

Can you treat PDs?

Answer 10

Yes, long term
Need IPT
Can do CBT as well

Question 11

How do you describe someone with an EUPD?

Answer 11

Have volatile relationships (attachment seeking behaviour)
Self Harm
Volatile Emotions
Fear of abandonment 
Low self esteem

Question 12

Risk factors for EUPD?

Answer 12

Poor Childhood attachment