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.
Youtube Video:
Short Films about Mental Health-Personality Disorders
Amazon or Library Book:
Diagnosis and Treatment of Personality Disorders
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Support Group: nami.org; 800-9506-6264
(National Alliance on Mental Illness)
4 CURRENT ARTICLES
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The world-wide medical research
reports chosen for each diagnosis
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- Personality and neuropsychiatric symptoms in individuals diagnosed with long COVIDby Asia Avinir on December 20, 2024
CONCLUSION: The study underscores the significance of incorporating psychological interventions into treatment plans to alleviate distress symptoms associated with cognitive decline in conditions like Long COVID.
- Mood instability and risk of gastrointestinal diseases - a univariable and multivariable mendelian randomization studyby Rui-Lin Liu on December 20, 2024
CONCLUSION: This study provides compelling evidence for a potential causal relationship between mood instability and certain gastrointestinal diseases underscoring the importance of considering mood instability as a potential risk factor for gastrointestinal diseases as well as the positive role of maintaining mood stability in the prevention of gastrointestinal disorders.
- Personality associations with online vs. offline social capital and well-being variablesby Miao Chao on December 20, 2024
Social capital is an important construct in diverse scientific disciplines for understanding health promotion, entrepreneurship, and economic growth. In an increasingly digitalized world, social capital can be established and used in both online and offline contexts. Previous research suggests that personality might be relevant to an understanding of individual differences in social capital. For instance, the literature suggests that extraversion is associated with more social capital. Against...
- Deconstructing Detachment: Contrasting Trait Profiles in Community Adults With Schizoid Versus Avoidant Personality Stylesby Feyza Urer on December 20, 2024
The degree to which schizoid and avoidant personality styles represent unique variants of interpersonal detachment remains controversial. This study contrasted core traits associated with schizoid versus avoidant personalities in a mixed-sex sample of 221 community adults, using the five traits that comprise the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders (AMPD). The International Personality Disorders Examination Screening Questionnaire was used to assess schizoid and avoidant personality...