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Overview Personality change due to another medical condition involves a persistent personality disturbance that represents a change from a person’s previous characteristic pattern, judged to be the direct physiological consequence of a medical condition, such as a brain injury or neurological illness. Signs and Symptoms Symptoms can include marked changes in emotional expression, impulse control, …
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Overview Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder involves a long-standing pattern of preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and mental and interpersonal control, at the expense of flexibility, openness, and efficiency, typically beginning by early adulthood. Signs and Symptoms Signs can include excessive devotion to work and productivity, rigid adherence to rules, reluctance to delegate tasks, and difficulty discarding worthless …
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Overview Schizotypal personality disorder involves a long-standing pattern of acute discomfort with close relationships, cognitive or perceptual distortions, and eccentricities of behavior, typically beginning by early adulthood. Signs and Symptoms Signs can include odd beliefs or magical thinking, unusual perceptual experiences, eccentric speech or behavior, and marked social anxiety that does not diminish with familiarity. …
Overview Schizoid personality disorder involves a long-standing pattern of detachment from social relationships and a restricted range of emotional expression in interpersonal settings, typically beginning by early adulthood. Signs and Symptoms Signs can include preferring solitary activities, little interest in close relationships, limited emotional expression, and indifference to praise or criticism from others. Experiencing one …
Overview Paranoid personality disorder involves a long-standing pattern of pervasive distrust and suspicion of others, interpreting their motives as malevolent, typically beginning by early adulthood. Signs and Symptoms Signs can include suspecting others of exploiting or deceiving without sufficient basis, reluctance to confide in others, and reading hidden threatening meanings into benign remarks. Experiencing one …
Overview Narcissistic personality disorder involves a long-standing pattern of grandiosity, need for excessive admiration, and lack of empathy, typically beginning by early adulthood. Signs and Symptoms Signs can include an exaggerated sense of self-importance, preoccupation with fantasies of success, need for excessive admiration, and difficulty recognizing others’ feelings and needs. Experiencing one or more of …
Overview Histrionic personality disorder involves a long-standing pattern of excessive emotionality and attention-seeking behavior, including discomfort in situations where a person is not the center of attention. Signs and Symptoms Signs can include rapidly shifting or shallow emotional expression, use of physical appearance to draw attention, and considering relationships more intimate than they actually are. …
Overview Dependent personality disorder involves a long-standing, excessive need to be taken care of, leading to submissive and clinging behavior and difficulty making everyday decisions without excessive reassurance from others. Signs and Symptoms Signs can include difficulty expressing disagreement for fear of losing support, discomfort when alone, and going to excessive lengths to obtain support …
Overview Avoidant personality disorder involves a long-standing pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and heightened sensitivity to criticism or rejection, leading to avoidance of social interaction despite a desire for connection. Signs and Symptoms Signs can include avoiding activities involving interpersonal contact due to fear of criticism, reluctance to get involved with others unless …
Overview Antisocial personality disorder involves a long-standing pattern of disregard for the rights of others, beginning by adolescence and continuing into adulthood, and is diagnosed only in adults. Signs and Symptoms Signs can include repeated unlawful behavior, deceitfulness, impulsivity, irritability, disregard for the safety of others, consistent irresponsibility, and lack of remorse. Experiencing one or …