Personality Disorders

Question 1

Boderline personality disorder

Answer 1

Pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self image, and affects and marked impulsivity, beginning by early adulthood and present in varierty of contexts 
Emotionally unstable
Impulsive 
Intense 
Self-harm 
Emptiness
Severe dissociative symptoms

Question 2

Management of BPD

Answer 2

Dialectic behavioural therapy
Mentalisation based treatment
Symptomatic prescribing
Co-occuring mental illness

Question 3

Cluster A personality disorders (main problems) and subtypes

Answer 3

Prominent problems with perceived safety of interpersonal relationships
Paranoid, schizoaffective and schizotypical

Question 4

Cluster B main problems?and subtypes

Answer 4

Prominent problems with keeping feelings tolerable without acting
Antisocial, narcissistic, borderline and histrionic

Question 5

Cluster C main problems? and subtypes

Answer 5

Prominent problems relate to anxiety and how it is managed (in relationships)
Obsessive compulsive, avoidant, dependant