Personality Disorders
Personality disorders tend to be less serious than the other disorders discussed so far.
Personality disorders are well-established, maladaptive ways of behaving that negatively affect people’s ability to function.
What that means, is that a person has a central aspect of their personality that impairs smooth social functioning. Now as we go through the various personality disorders that you should know, you are going to see aspects of these disorders in both yourself and the people you know. It only becomes a personality disorder if that negative aspect of their personality is the staple of who they are.
| Antisocial personality disorder: | |
| This does NOT mean that you are a loner or not a social person. Antisocial personality means lack of a conscious. These people have trouble feeling empathy and have no qualms hurting or lying to get what they want.
Criminal behavior is linked to antisocial personality disorder. |
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| Histrionic personality disorder | |
| These people must always be the center of attention at all costs. They will go to extreme and dramatic lengths just to be the center point of everybody’s lives. | |
| Narcissistic personality disorder | |
| This involves seeing oneself as more important than you actually are. They look at themselves as above others and tend to be very picky about their friends. | |
| Dependent personality disorder |
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| These people rely too much on the attention and help of others. They have trouble making decisions by themselves- they need approval. | |
| Paranoid personality disorder | |
| These people always feel persecuted. They walk down the halls and see some people talking and wonder “why are they talking about me?” | |
| Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder | |
| These people are overly concerned with certain thoughts and performing certain behaviors, but will not be debilitated to the same extent that someone with obsessive-compulsive disorder anxiety (OCD) would. | |