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| Personality Disorder: define |
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| enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of the individual's culture, is pervasive and inflexible- leads to distress or impairment- onset adolescence or early adulthood |
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| Personality Disorder characteristics: |
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Inflexible and maladaptive response to stress.
Disability in working and loving.
Ability to evoke interpersonal conflict
Capacity to "get under the skin" of others. |
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| paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal |
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| distrust and suspiciousness of others such that their motives are interpreted as malevolent. |
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| detachment from social relationships and a restricted range of expression in interpersonal settings. (always chooses solidarity. little or no interest in sexual experiences with another person) |
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social and interpersonal deficits marked by acute discomfort with, and reduced capacity for close relationships. Eccentricities in behavior.
(odd beliefs, magical thinking, bodily illusions, paranoid, social anxiety) |
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| Antisocial, Borderline, Narcissistic, Histrionic |
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pattern of disregard for and wiolation of the rights of others occurring since age of 15.
(deceitfulness, lying, impulsiveness, irritability and aggressiveness) |
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instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity beginning in early adulthood
(frantic avoidance of abandonment, unstable and intense relationship, inappropriate intense anger, recurrent suicidal gesture or threats) |
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grandiosity in fantasy and behavior, need for admiration and lack of empathy.
(grand sense of self importance, believes that they are special, arrogant) |
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excessive emotionality and attention seeking
(wants to be center of attn. interaction often inappropriate and sexual, shallow shifting emotions. considers relationships to be more intimate then reality) |
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| Dependent, OCPD, Avoidant |
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need to be taken care of that leads to submissive and clinging behavior and fear of separation
(difficulty making decisions, difficulty expressing disagreement, uncomfortable alone) |
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| Obsessive-compulsive Personality |
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preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and mental and interpersonal control at the expense of flexibility and efficiency.
(Monk) |
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social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, hypersensitivity to negative evaluation.
(fears disapproval and rejection fervently, views self as socially inept, personally unappealing and inferior to others) |
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