• Inflexible and maladaptive behaviour• Impairs social and personal functioning• Source of distress to the individual or to others. • Are split into three clusters that combine the

disorders that have similarities.

•Cluster A Personality Disorders

•Cluster B Personality Disorders

•Cluster C Personality Disorders

• Histrionic personality disorder

• Narcissistic personality disorder

• Borderline personality disorder

• Anti-social personality disorder

• (ASPD) Is characterized by lack of empathy or conscience.

• Difficulty controlling impulses and manipulative behaviours.

• Sometime this disorder is referred to as psychopathic or sociopathic.

• Severe irresponsible and anti-social behaviour beginning in childhood and continuing past age 18.

Showed evidence of lifetime risk for ASPD• 5.8% of males• 1.2% of females

- ASPD shows an elevated prevalence among patients in alcohol or other drug abuse treatment programs than in the general population.

- Also thought of as emotionally disabled.

- Know “right” and “wrong” but do not act upon it.

- Also indifferent to the threat of physical pain and punishment in general.

To be diagnosed with ASPD, a patient must have at least three, or more, of the following traits, occurring since age 15:

• Failure to conform to social norms (evident by repeated unlawful behaviour).

• Deceitfulness, repeated lying, use of aliases, of manipulating others for personal profit of pleasure.

• Impulsivity or failure to plan ahead

• Irritability and aggressiveness (repeated physical fights or assaults).

• Reckless disregard for safety of self or others.

• Consistent irresponsibility (such as repeated failure to sustain consistent work behaviour or honour financial obligations)

• Lack of remorse, indifferent to or rationalizing having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from another.

• There have been lots of intensive programs designed to rehabilitate incarcerated patients.

• But according to some Doctors, no programs have yet to proven to be effective.

• Their abnormalities of personality are deep-rooted and chronic.

• In many cases, therapy can help

• Avoidant personality disorder

• Dependent personality disorder

• Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder

Also called Anankastic Personality Disorder

Symptoms

Symptoms• Preoccupation with details, rules, lists, order,

organization, and schedules.• Being very rigid and inflexible • Some people with OCPD show an obsessive need for

cleanliness.• Personal and social relationships are often under stain

because a person with OCPD insists on being in charge and the only one who knows what’s right.

• Some suggest that people with a particular form of the DRD3 gene are highly likely to develop OCPD and depression, particularly if they are male.

• Genetic concomitants may lie dormant until triggered by curtain events.

• Treatment for OCPD normally involves psychotherapy and self-help.

• Medication in isolation is generally not used for this personality disorder

• However, fluoxetine has been prescribed with success.

• Schizotypal personality disorder

• Paranoid personality disorder

• Schiziod personality disorder

• Characterized by a lack of interest in social relationships, a tendency towards a solitary lifestyle, secretiveness, and emotional coldness.

• SPD is not the same as schizophrenia, although they share some similar characteristics such as detachment or blunted affect.

• There is some evidence to suggest that there is an increased prevalence of schizoid personality disorder in relatives of people with schizophrenia or schizotypal personality disorder. Unloving or neglectful parenting is hypothesized to play a role.

Conscience : the inner sense of what is right or wrong in one's conduct or motives, impelling one toward right action.

Aliases : a false name used to conceal one's identity; an assumed name.

Prevalence :widespread; of wide extent or occurrence; in general use or acceptance.

Concomitants :existing or occurring with something else, often in a lesser way; accompanying; concurrent.

fluoxetine :a drug that functions as an SSRI and is administered in the form of its hydrochloride C17H18F3NO·HCl esp. to treat depression, panic disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder

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