Personality DisordersKristin Hixson

Personality Disorders

0 Enduring patterns of behavior that deviates cultural expectations and norms

0 Inflexible and pervasive

0 To be diagnosed, must cause significant distress or impairment in personal, social, and/or occupational situations.

Borderline Personality DisorderSigns & Symptoms

0 Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment

0 A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation

0 Identity disturbance, such as a significant and persistent unstable self-image or sense of self

0 Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging (e.g., spending, sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating)

Borderline Personality DisorderSigns & Symptoms

0 Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behavior

0 Chronic feelings of emptiness

0 Inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights)

0 Transient, stress-related paranoid thoughts or severe dissociative symptoms

Borderline Personality DisorderDifference?

Bipolar Disorder Borderline Personal.

0 Cyclical changes in mood, energy and activity levels that range from deep depression, to mania or hypomania.

0 Common to have an immediate family member with a history of bipolar disorder.0 Hereditary

0 Trouble regulating emotions and thoughts, and has impulsive and reckless behavior and unstable relationships with others.

0 More likely to have additional disorders and also more likely to have experienced childhood trauma

0 They may also experience longer and more severe episodes of depression.

Anti-Social Personality Disorder

0Characterized by a long-standing pattern of a disregard for other people’s rights

0often crossing the line and violating those rights

0Often referred to as psychopathy or sociopathy in popular culture

0 It usually begins in childhood or as a teen and continues into their adult lives

Anti-Social Personality DisorderSigns & Symptoms

0 Failure to conform to social norms

0 Deceitfulness

0 Irritability and aggressiveness

0 Reckless disregard

0 Consistent irresponsibility

0 Lack of remorse

Anti-Social Personality Disorder0 Frequently lack empathy

0 Tend to be callous, cynical, and contemptuous of the feelings, rights, and sufferings of others

0 An inflated and arrogant self-appraisal

0 Excessively opinionated, self-assured, or cocky.

0 Superficial charm

Charles Manson- ASPD

Schizoid Personality Disorder

0Characterized by a long-standing pattern of detachment from social relationships

0Often has difficulty expression emotions 0very restricted range, especially when communicating with others.

Schizoid Personality DisorderSigns & Symptoms

0Neither desires nor enjoys close relationships, including being part of a family

0Almost always chooses solitary activities

0Has little, if any, interest in having sexual experiences with another person

0Takes pleasure in few, if any, activities

Schizoid Personality DisorderSigns & Symptoms

0Lacks close friends or confidants other than first-degree relatives

0Appears indifferent to the praise or criticism of others

0Shows emotional coldness, detachment, or flattened affect (emotion)

Schizoid Personality

Histrionic Personality Disorder

0Characterized by a long-standing pattern of attention seeking behavior

0Extreme emotionality 0Wants to be the center of attention

in any group of people0 feel uncomfortable when they are

not

0Have difficulty when people aren’t focused exclusively on them.

Histrionic Personality DisorderSigns & Symptoms

0 Has a style of speech that is excessively impressionistic and lacking in detail

0 Shows self-dramatization, theatricality, and exaggerated expression of emotion

0 Is highly suggestible, i.e., easily influenced by others or circumstances

0 Considers relationships to be more intimate than they actually are

Histrionic Personality DisorderSigns & Symptoms

0 Is uncomfortable in situations in which he or she is not the center of attention

0 Interaction with others is often characterized by inappropriate sexually seductive or provocative behavior

0 Displays rapidly shifting and shallow expression of emotions

0 Consistently uses physical appearance to draw attention to themself

Histrionic Personality Disorder

Gone With The Wind- Histrionic

Dissociative Identity DisorderFormerly Known As: Multiple Personality Disorder

0The presence of two or more distinct identities or personality states

0At least two of these identities or personality states recurrently take control of the person’s behavior.

Dissociative Identity Disorder

0A person diagnosed with DID feels as if they have within them two or more entities, or personality states

0each with its own independent way of relating, perceiving, thinking, and remembering about themselves and their life

0Different states may appear to be very different, but they are all manifestations of a single person.

Dissociative Identity Disorder

Narcissistic Personality Disorder

0Characterized by a long-standing pattern of grandiosity

0An overwhelming need for admiration

0Lack of empathy toward others.

Narcissistic Personality DisorderSigns & Symptoms

0 Has a grandiose sense of self-importance

0 Exaggerates achievements and talents

0 Is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance,

beauty, or ideal love

0 Believes that he or she is “special” and unique 0 Can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people

(or institutions)

0 Requires excessive admiration

0 Has a very strong sense of entitlement0 unreasonable expectations

Narcissistic Personality DisorderSigns & Symptoms

0 Is exploitative of others0 takes advantage of others

0 Lacks empathy0 unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others

0 Is often envious of others0 or believes that others are envious of him or her

0 Regularly shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes

Zoolander

Examples

0Borderline Personality Disorder

0Anti-Social Personality Disorder

0Schizoid Personality Disorder

0Histrionic Personality Disorder

0Dissociative Identity Disorder

0Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Examples

0Borderline Personality Disorder

0Anti-Social Personality Disorder

0Schizoid Personality Disorder

0Histrionic Personality Disorder

0Dissociative Identity Disorder

0Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Examples

0Borderline Personality Disorder

0Anti-Social Personality Disorder

0Schizoid Personality Disorder

0Histrionic Personality Disorder

0Dissociative Identity Disorder

0Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Examples

0Borderline Personality Disorder

0Anti-Social Personality Disorder

0Schizoid Personality Disorder

0Histrionic Personality Disorder

0Dissociative Identity Disorder

0Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Examples

0Borderline Personality Disorder

0Anti-Social Personality Disorder

0Schizoid Personality Disorder

0Histrionic Personality Disorder

0Dissociative Identity Disorder

0Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Examples

0Borderline Personality Disorder

0Anti-Social Personality Disorder

0Schizoid Personality Disorder

0Histrionic Personality Disorder

0Dissociative Identity Disorder

0Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Causes

0Genetics

0Environmental factors

0Brain abnormalities