Personality Disorders

Question 1

Personality Disorders

Answer 1

Enduring patterns of social and other behavior that impair social function

Question 2

Anxious Personality Disorders

Answer 2

Aka avoidant personality disorder

Ruled by fear of social rejection

Question 3

Eccentric / Odd Personality Disorder

Answer 3

Aka shizoid personality disorder

With flat effect, no social attachments

Question 4

Dramatic Personality Disorder

Answer 4

Aka histrionic personality disorder
Attention-seeking
Narcissistic, self-centered
Antisocial, amoral

Question 5

Amok

Answer 5

From southeast Asia, Scandinavia
Dissociative condition characterized by non-premeditated violent, disorderly rage directed against other objects, persons
Often accompanied by amnesia, exhaustion

Question 6

Ghost Sickness

Answer 6

From Navajo
Physical symptoms: weakness, fatigue, digestive problems, suffocation
Psychological symptoms: nightmares, anxiety, paranoia, hallucinations, confusion
Affects those preoccupied w/ deceased

Question 7

Taijin Kyofusho

Answer 7

From Japan
Social anxiety in which affected are extremely embarrassed of themselves / displeasing others when it comes to body functions
Symptoms: social withdrawal, rapid heartbeats, panic attacks, dread

Question 8

Koro

Answer 8

From Southeast Asia

Anxiety in which affected believes that their penis or nipples will retract into their body and kill them