Personality disorders Flashcards
PARANOID PERSONALITY DISORDER
Suspicion and mistrust against them
Hypersensitivity to criticism and potential slights
Often preoccupied with unfounded beliefs about perceived conspiracies against themselves
Schizoid personality disorder
No interest in social interaction or making friends etc
Has a few, if any close relationships outside family
Schizotypal personality disorder
Just a bit odd and wild but not quite enough to have schizophrenia
Demonstrates inappropriate or constricted affect, and peculiar, eccentric or bizarre behaviour
Postitive symptoms of Schizophrenia (ABCD neumonic)
Auditory Hallucinations: Commonly involving third-person auditory experiences, broadcasting of thoughts, control issues, and delusional perceptions.
Broadcasting of Thoughts: Belief that one’s thoughts are being broadcasted to others.
Control Issues: The sense of external control over one’s thoughts or actions.
Delusional Perception: Distorted interpretations of reality, often with false beliefs
Negative Schizo symptoms
All depressive things
Alogia (poverty of speech)
Anhedonia (inability to feel pleasure)
Affective incongruity or blunting (patient talks about sad things in a happy way, mood and affect differ)
Avolition (lack of motivation)
Schizoaffective Disorder
Not quite fully schizo
Get hallucinations, delusions and disorganised speech
Has Mania or Depression while normal Schizo wont
What is mania
Severe functional impairment or psychotic symptoms persisting for at least seven days
What is hypomania
Increased or decreased function for at least four days without psychotic symptoms
Type 1 Bipolar
One or more manic episodes and one or more depressive episodes
Have grandiose delusions
Type 2 Bipolar
Recurrent major depressive episodes and hypomanic episodes
No grandiose delusions
Conversion disorder
Neuro symps but no underlying cause
Hypochondriasis
Believe they have a serious illness and want lots of tests but no underlying cause
Malingering
falsification or profound exaggeration of illness (physical or mental) to gain external benefits
Somatiform disorder
Non-neuro symps without a cause
