Personality Disorders

Question 1

What is BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER/EUPD?

Answer 1

• Efforts to avoid real/imagined abandonment
• Unstable interpersonal relationships and self image/affective instability
• Impulsivity in potentially self damaging areas (money, sex substance misuse)
• Chronic feelings of emptiness
• Difficulty controlling anger

Question 2

What is SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER?

Answer 2

• Ideas of reference (some insight is retained). Odd beliefs and magical thinking
• Unusual perceptual disturbances
• Paranoid ideation/suspiciousness
• Odd/eccentric behaviour
• Lack of close friend
• Inappropriate affect
• Odd speech without being incoherent

Question 3

What is SCHIZOID PERSONALITY DISORDER?

Answer 3

• Indifference to praise/criticism
• Preference to solitary activities
• Lack of interest in sexual interactions/few interests
• Lack of desire for companionship
• Emotional coldness
• Few friends/confidants other than family

Question 4

What is HISTRIONIC PERSONALITY DISORDER?

Answer 4

• Inappropriate sexual seductiveness
• Need for centre of attention
• Rapid shifting/shallow expression of emotions
• Suggestibility/self-dramatisation
• Physical appearance used for attention seeking purposes
• Relationships considered to be more intimate than they are