Personality Disorder
A personality disorder is a type of mental disorder in which you have a rigid and unhealthy pattern of thinking, functioning and behaving. A person with a personality disorder has trouble perceiving and relating to situations and people.
Cluster Number:
Wiki Number: PW162
Diagnosis: Personality Disorder(s)-Classifications and Lists
US Patients: This entry is “PW162” just because that number falls on “Personality” in the alphabetical listing.
World Patients:
Sex Ratio: This entry contains the general classifications of personality disorders: paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal, antisocial, borderline
Age Onset: histrionic, narcissistic, avoidant, dependent, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorders.
Brain Area:
Symptoms: Enduring maladaptive behaviors of individuals but violating the local, social norms
Progression:
Causes: This entry provides several different perspectives and their respective listings of the various types of personality disorders.
Medications: This entry does not describe the characteristics of any individual diagnosis as this set of overviews is designed to do.
Therapies: No symptoms, progression, cause, medication nor therapy is provided for any specific diagnosis.
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Short Films about Mental Health-Personality Disorders
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Diagnosis and Treatment of Personality Disorders
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4 CURRENT ARTICLES
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The world-wide medical research
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- Initial psychotropic prescriptions and symptom associations in first-visit patients with major depressive disorder: A single-center cross-sectional studyby Yugo Ishihara on November 21, 2024
CONCLUSION: More than half of the first-visit patients did not receive any psychotropic medication. Psychiatrists appear to consider specific symptoms and personality traits when deciding whether to prescribe medications, which may also be influenced by patient preferences. Further studies, including longitudinal analyses, are needed to explore these associations in more detail.
- MMPI-3 Assessment of Externalizing Psychopathology in Targeted Community and University Samplesby Martin Sellbom on November 21, 2024
The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-3 (MMPI-3) scales that are designed to assess various forms of externalizing psychopathology have received relatively little research attention to date. The goal of this investigation was therefore to examine the validity of these MMPI-3 scales in the measurement of the externalizing spectrum. A community sample (n = 206) with high levels of externalizing psychopathology and a university sample (n = 645) were used. The former sample was...
- Prediction of borderline personality disorder based on childhood trauma with the mediating role of experiential avoidanceby Boliang Jiang on November 21, 2024
INTRODUCTION: Traits of borderline personality disorder are important for the determination of the prognosis of mental illnesses and in evaluating risks of negativity as well as impulsivity. But, there is a lack of information about the distribution characteristics of borderline personality disorder traits and symptoms within clinical groups. The goal of the current study was to predict borderline personality disorder based on childhood trauma, using experiential avoidance as a mediator.
- Stress, Anxiety, and Depression in the First-year Students of Medical Education: A Prospective Cohort Study from a Women's Medical College in South Indiaby Ganesh Kumar Mallaram on November 21, 2024
CONCLUSION: Students showed a striking rise in psychological distress six months after joining medical school. This suggests that the medical school environment could play a role. To meet students' needs, a change in medical school culture and the provision of accessible and flexible mental health services are required.