week 8

Question 1

what is a personality disorder

Answer 1

A unique pattern of emotion, cognition and behaviour that causes distress and impairment to functioning.

Question 2

What is the criteria for general personality disorder

Answer 2

A) an enduring pattern of inner experience and behaviour that deviates from expectations of individuals culture, manifested in two of the following areas: cognition, affectivity, interpersonal functioning, and impulse control.
B) the enduring pattern is inflexible and pervasive across many situations
C) the pattern leads to distress or impairment
D) stable and of long duration
E) not better explained by another mental disorder
F) not attributable to drugs

Question 3

What are the three types of personality disorder

Answer 3

Cluster A: odd or eccentric
Cluster B: dramatic, emotional or erratic:
Cluster C: Anxious or fearful.

Question 4

Cluster A personality disorder

Answer 4

Paranoid personality disorder
Schizoid personality disorder
Schizotypal personality disorder

Question 5

Cluster B personality disorder

Answer 5

Borderline personality disorder
Histrionic
Narcissistic
Antisocial personality disorder

Question 6

Cluster C personality disorder

Answer 6

Avoidant personality disorder
Dependent personality disorder
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder

Question 7

Paranoid personality disorder

Answer 7

A pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of others, to an insane degree, in many contexts.
Clinical prevalence 6.3% to 9.6%, general population 1.5%-1.8%. Equal between genders. Difficult to treat.

Question 8

Schizoid personality disorder.

Answer 8

detatched from social relationships and restrained in emotion. essentially, they don’t have any desire to have friends, sex, and desire aloneness, indifferent to others to a whacko level.
clinical prevelence 1.4% to 1.9%, and in general pop 0.9%-1.2%: AKA, rare as fuck. The true lack of desire for closeness is really really unusual. Don’t know much about it, but there is a relationship to shyness and abuse in childhood. Tough to differentiate between autism and psychopathy.

Question 9

Schizotypal personality disorder

Answer 9

social and interpersonal problems, close relationship issues, but also with cognitive and perceptual distortions and general eccentricities of behaviour (not dissimilar to psychotic delusions).
Clinical prevelance: 5.7%-6.4%
General pop 0.7%-1.1%
this one reflects a dispositional vulnerability to schizophrenia. usually very set in their ways, and present with depression or anxiety problems.

Question 10

Antisocial personality disorder

Answer 10

pervasive disregard for the rights of others (and will violate them). Don’t conform to social norms, deceitful, impulsive, irritable and aggro, lack of remorse. gotta be 18 to be diagnosed, but show signs of conduct issues earlier. clinical prev 3.9-5.9%, general pop 1%. more common with men. Psychopathy seen as more severe subgroup.

Question 11

BPD

Answer 11

unstable in relationships, self image and affect, marked impulsivity, beginning in early adulthood. Essentially, think ‘psycho girlfriend.’ unstable identity, pattern of unstable relationships, frantic avoidance of abandonment. Suicidal behaviour, chronic feelings of emptiness, inappropriate intense anger, difficulty controlling anger. Clinical prevelance 28.5% (fuck!). General population prev 1.4% to 1.6%
Commonly associated with childhood trauma. over-diagnosed in women.

Question 12

Histrionic personality disorder

Answer 12

A pervasive of excessive emotionality and attention seeking. wants to be centre of attention, and has a weird speech pattern, self-dramatization, theatricality, is suggestible, ‘seductive,’ inappropriate provocative behaviour.
8.0% to 9.0%, general populations prevalence to 1.2% to 1.3%. disproportionately diagnosed in women. don’t know why, and hard to treat.

Question 13

Narcissistic personality disorder diagnostic criteria

Answer 13

Clinical prevalence 5.1% to 10.1%, general pop 0.1% to 0.8% slightly more common among men

Question 14

Avoidant personality disorder

Answer 14

a pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation. Wants to be liked, very afraid of shame or rejection, preoccupied with being criticised
ESSENTIALLY, hello social anxiety disorder.
Clinical prevalence 21.5%
general population prev 1.4%-2.5%. More common among women

Question 15

Dependent personality disorder

Answer 15

A pervasive and excessive need to be taken care of, that leads to submissive clinging behaviour
(essentially those weirdo, ‘daddy take care of me’ baby people). prev 13-15 clinically, 0.9-1.0 general pop. the old, cling and latch.

Question 16

Obsessive compulsive personality disorder

Answer 16

a pervasive pattern of preoccupation with orderliness and perfectionism. loves rules, lists and order, perfectionsim that fucks with finishing the task, loves work, overconsciousness, inflexible. Clinical prev 5.1% to 10.1%. more common among men.