Personality Disorders

Question 1

Features include:

• Unusual variability and depth of moods
• Moods are unstable
• Interpersonal relationships are chaotic
• Splitting
• high suicide rate

What is the psychiatric diagnosis and cluster type?

Answer 1

Borderline personality disorder

***high suicide rate very common on tests

Cluster B

Question 2

Pervasive distrust (accusatory) and suspiciousness of others and a profoundly cynical view of the world.

What is the psychiatric diagnosis and cluster type?

Answer 2

Paranoid

Cluster A

Question 3

A female patient reports being in love with you, you refer her to someone else, and she attempts to commit suicide, what type of personality disorder does this person have??

Answer 3

Borderline