Personality Disorders

Question 1

What is Paranoid Personality Disorder?

Answer 1

suspicious, mistrustful, secretive, isolated, and questioning of others

Question 2

What is Schizoid Personality Disorder?

Answer 2

Choice of solitary activities, emotion coldness: no desire for or enjoyment of close relationships

Question 3

What is Schizotypal Personality Disorder?

Answer 3

Magical thinking, brief psychotic episodes, odd thinking, eccentric behavior

Question 4

What is Histrionic personality disorder?

Answer 4

Must be the center of attention, inappropriate sexual behavior, use physical appearance to draw attention to self

Question 5

What is Antisocial personality disorder?

Answer 5

Fail to confirm to social rules, aggressive to others

Question 6

What is borderline personality disorder?

Answer 6

Chronic feelings of emptiness, inappropriate anger, unstable relationships, impulsive

Question 7

What is Narcissistic personality disorder?

Answer 7

Grandiose sense of self

Question 8

What is avoidant personality disorder?

Answer 8

Unwilling to get involved with people, feel inadequate: wants to socialize but avoids it

Question 9

What is Dependent personality disorder?

Answer 9

Unable to assume responsibility, fears being alone

Question 10

What is Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder?

Answer 10

Preoccupied with details: orderly, perfectionistic, no obsession or compulsions are seen

Question 11

How do you treat Personality disorders?

Answer 11

Psychotherapy