I am learning about personality disorders in my Intro to Counseling course. As I have been looking them over, I realized we all have some of these characteristics, just to lesser degrees. In the interest of learning here are the categories:
Wild personality disorders:
Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD): adult version of oppositional defiance disorder. Person often is reactionary to authority figures
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD): difficulty with self-control, often test other's love for them, inadequately developed personal identity, difficulty developing relationships
Histrionic Personality Disorder (HPD): very dramatic and flirtatious- not necessarily seeking a relationship with the person whom they are flirting with
Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD): thinks of themselves highly, expects to be treated better than others
Weird personality disorders:
Schizoid Personality Disorder (SPD): anhedonia and amotivation, problems taking appropriate responsibility
Paranoid Personality Disorder (PPD): assumption that others are plotting against them
Schizotypal Personality Disorder (SPD): odd and eccentric, magical thinking is borderline delusional and psychotic
Withdrawn personality disorders:
Dependent Personality Disorder (DPD): passive aggressiveness, no identity beyond what others give them
Avoidant Personality Disorder (AVPD): distances self from others in order to decrease potential of others controlling them
Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD): focus on tasks and things to distract from failure at relationships with people
Very interesting. . . I am learning a lot
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I think I know which ones my in-laws have. Thanks for the very informative information - now, is there a pill for that?
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