Dependent Personality Disorder
Dependent personality disorder (DPD) is a type of anxious personality disorder. People with DPD often feel helpless, submissive or incapable of taking care of themselves. They may have trouble making simple decisions. But, with help, someone with a dependent personality can learn self-confidence and self-reliance.
Cluster Number:
Wiki Number: W056
Diagnosis: Dependent Personality Disorder
US Patients:
World Patients:
Sex Ratio: M;W1.5
Age Onset: Age 24
Brain Area:
Symptoms: fear and anxiety leads to depending too much on others, pessimistic, fear separation
Progression: deep fear of abandonment, focus on ingratiating behaviors, and maintaining pleasant (often unhealthy) relationships
Causes: neglect and abusive authoritarian parents-80% heritable;
Medications:
Therapies: psychotherapy to improve self-esteem & confidence
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- From feather pecking to immunity: Immune differences between lines selected for high and low feather peckingby Tanja Hofmann on December 14, 2024
Feather pecking (FP) is a serious behavioral disorder in laying hens, leading to feather damage, skin lesions, and often resulting in cannibalism. The mechanisms underlying FP are not clear yet, but recently the role of the immune system as a cause has been discussed. In humans, the interrelation between personality traits and the immune system is well-documented, with impulsivity and hyperactivity linked to distinct alterations in blood immune cell numbers and to elevated levels of...
- Factors Associated with Hospital Readmission in a Population with a Diagnosis of Personality Disorderby Vera Carbonel-Aranda on December 12, 2024
CONCLUSIONS: This study identified key risk factors for hospital readmission of individuals with personality disorders, including younger age, previous admissions, voluntary admission, specific personality disorder types, and comorbidity with affective and anxiety disorders. These findings underscore the need for future research to better understand the risk factors for readmission in this population.
- Characteristics of patients with neurotic disorders requiring long-term treatment: Relationship to "nervous personality" as described in Morita's Shinkeishitsu theoryby Hiroshi Matsumoto on December 6, 2024
CONCLUSION: The presence of a "nervous personality," as described in Morita's Shinkeishitsu theory, may prolong the required duration of treatment in patients with neurotic disorders.
- Comparing Marital Adjustment in Couples Having Alcohol- or Opioid-dependent Husbandsby Sayani Bisoi on November 20, 2024
CONCLUSION: Marital adjustment are probably equal in patients and spouses of alcohol and opioid dependence syndrome. A small sample size is a limitation of this study.