Name the Personality Disorder
Suspicious of motives of others and assume that others intend to exploit, harm, or deceive them.
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Ppl with this disorder do not accept responsibility for their own behaviors and feelings and project this responsibility onto others.
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Ppl with this disorder maintain their self esteem by attributing their shortcomings to others.
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Extremely oversensitive and tend to misinterpret even minute cues within the environment, magnifying, and distorting them into thoughts of trickery and deception.
Paranoid Personality Disorder
A pervasive, persistent, and inappropriate mistrust of other.
Paranoid Personality Disorder
A pattern of socially irresponsible, exploitative, and guiltless behavior that reflects a general disregard for the rights of others.
Antisocial Personality Disorder
ADHD and conduct disorder during childhood and adolescence may be a predisposing factor to this disorder.
Antisocial Personality Disorder
Become furious and vindictive when what they desire is challenged. Easily provoked to attack, their first inclination is to demean and dominate. Believe good guys finish last. Contempt for the weak.
Antisocial Personality Disorder
Often appear cold and callous, often intimidating others with their brusque and belligerent manner. Tend to be argumentative and at times, cruel and malicious. Lack warmth and compassion are often suspicious of these qualities in others.
Antisocial Personality Disorder
Ppl with this disorder demonstrate flagrant disrespect for the law. Established norms do not apply to them. They have a tendency to ignore conventional authority and rules.
Antisocial Personality Disorder
Ppl with this disorder exploit and manipulate others for personal gain and are unconcerned with obeying laws.
Antisocial Personality Disorder
Ppl with this disorder have a low tolerance for frustration, act impetuously, and are unable to delay gratification. They are restless and easily bored, often talking chances and seeking thrills as if they were immune to danger
Antisocial Personality Disorder
Ppl with this disorder see themselves as victims, using projection as the primary ego defense mechanism. They do not accept responsibility for their actions. Place trust only in themselves.
Antisocial Personality Disorder
The following circumstances may predispose to this personality disorder: absence of parental discipline child abuse extreme poverty removal from the home growing up without both parental figures maternal deprivation erratic and inconsistent methods of discipline bring rescued every time they make a mistake
Antisocial Personality Disorder
From a distance, others may perceive them as timid, withdrawn, or even cold. Those who get closer to them soon realize their touchiness, sensitivity, evasiveness, and mistrustful qualities.
Avoidant Personality Disorder
Ppl with this disorder are extremely sensitive to rejection and because of this may lead a very socially withdrawn life. There may be a strong desire for companionship, but they are awkward and uncomfortable in social situations.
Avoidant Personality Disorder
Ppl with this disorder may exhibit extreme shyness and fear of rejection, however, need unusually strong reassurances of unconditional acceptance.
Avoidant Personality Disorder
Pple with this disorder often exhibit a slow and constrained speech pattern with freq hesitations, fragmentary thought sequences, and occ confused and irrelevant digressions. They view others are critical, betraying, and humiliating.
Avoidant Personality Disorder
Ppl with this disorder have a tendency to allow others to make decisions, to feel helpless when alone, and to act submissively.
Dependent Personality Disorder
Ppl with this disordermay downplay their attractiveness, be overly generous, and avoid positions of authority. They will do anything, even if unpleasant or demeaning, to earn acceptance of others. When alone, they may feel pessimistic, discourage, and dejected but they don't let others see this side of them.
Dependent Personality Disorder
Pple with this disorder exhibit notable lack of self-confidence that is often apparent in posture, voice, and mannerisms. They are typically passive and acquiescent to the desires of others. Their suffering is done in silence.
Dependent Personality Disorder
Pple with this disorder tend to subordinate their needs to others, to tolerate mistreatment by others, to demean self to gain acceptance, and to fail to function adequately in situations that require assertive or dominant behavior
Dependent Personality Disorder
This disorder is characterized by "a pattern of relying excessively on others for emotional support",
Dependent Personality Disorder
Ppl with this disorder tend to be self-dramatizing, attention-seeking, overly gregarious, and seductive. They use manipulation and exhibition in their demands to be center of attention.
Histrionic Personality Disorder
Pple with this disorder are highly distractible and flighty by nature. They have difficulty paying attention to detail. Tend to be highly suggestible, impressionable, and easily influenced by others. They are strongly dependent by portray themselves as carefree and sophisticated on one hand and inhibited and naïve on the other hand.
Histrionic Personality Disorder
Pple with this disorder have an all-consuming need for approval and a desperate striving to be conspicuous and to evoke affection or attract attention at all costs.
Histrionic Personality Disorder
This disorder is characterized by colorful, dramatic, and extroverted behavior in excited, emotional people. More common in women than men.
Histrionic Personality Disorder
Avoid interactions with other ppl least they have to relinquish some of their own power. Always feel like everyone is going to take advantage of them.
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Constantly on guard, hypervigilant, and ready for any real or imagined threat.
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Ppl with disorder frequently choose a mate that will provide them with praise and positive feedback that they require and who will not ask much from them in return. They exploit others for their own gratification.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Ppl with this disorder seem to lack humility, being overly self-centered and exploiting others to fulfill their own desires. They see themselves as superior beings entitled to special privileges.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Pple with this disorder have an exaggerated sense of self-worth. They lack empathy and are hypersensitive to the evaluation of others. They believe that they have the inalienable right to rec special consideration and that their desire is sufficient justification for possessing whatever they seek
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Pple with this disorders often suffer from grandiose delusions. Their mood is usually optimistic, relaxed, cheerful, and carefree but can change easily because of their fragile self-esteem. If they do not meet self expectations, may respond with rage, shame, humiliation, or dejection.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
This disorder may be predisposed by being raised by parents that are living vicariously thru the lives of their children or by parents that were perfectionists and hypercritical.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Individuals with this disorder commonly use the defense mechanism of reaction formation. Also isolation intellectualization, rationalization, and undoing are also commonly evident.
Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
Ppl with this disorder are very serious, formal, and have difficulty expressing emotions. They are overly disciplined, perfectionistic, and preoccupied with rules.
Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
Ppl with this disorder tend to be inflexible about the way in which things are done and have a devotion to productivity to the exclusion of personal pleasure. An intense fear of making mistakes leads to difficulty with decision-making. Occurs more commonly in men and with oldest child in family.
Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
Ppl with this disorder tend to lack spontaneity. They are meticulous and work diligently and patiently at tasks that require accuracy and discipline. They are rigid and unbending bout rules and procedures.
Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
Pple with this disorder tend to be rank conscious...even treating pple differently depending on how they are ranked. Typical "company man". See themselves as loyal, conscientious, and dependable. Contemptuous of behavior that is considered frivolous and impulsive
Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
In the presence of others, they appear shy, anxious, or uneasy. They are inappropriately serious about everything and have difficulty in behaving in a light-hearted manner. Exhibit little spontaneity. Typically experience no pleasure.
Schizoid Personality Disorder
Ppl with this disorder tend to appear cold and aloof, and indifferent to others. Bland affect. They prefer to work in isolation and are unsociable with little need or desire for emotional ties.
Schizoid Personality Disorder
Ppl with this disorder tend to display a life-long pattern of social withdrawal, and their discomfort with human interaction is apparent.
Schizoid Personality Disorder
This disorder is characterized by a profound defect in the ability to form personal relationships or to respond to others in any meaningful way.
Schizoid Personality Disorder
Freq believe in clairvoyance, telepathy, or sixth sense. Beliefs that others "can feel my feelings". Freq superstitious.
Schizotypal Personality Disorder
Ppl with this disorder are typically aloof and isolated and behave in a bland and apathetic manner. Magical thinking, ideas of reference, illusions, and depersonalization are part of their every day world.
Schizotypal Personality Disorder
Pple with this disorder were once described as latent schizophrenics. They behave odd and eccentric but does not decompensate to the level of schizophrenia.
Schizotypal Personality Disorder
Speech pattern is sometimes bizarre. Often cannot orient their thoughts logically and become lost in personal irrelevancies and in tangential asides that seem vague digressive, and not pertinent to the topic at hand.
Schizotypal Personality Disorder
They often talk or gesture to themselves as if "living in their own world". Affect is bland or inappropriate, such as laughing at their own problems or at a situation that most would consider sad.
Schizotypal Personality Disorder
