Personality disorders involve long-lasting maladaptive traits that impair functioning or cause distress. They can be caused by troubled childhoods, childhood problems continuing into adulthood, or poor relationships. Borderline personality disorder involves instability in relationships, self-image, and emotions as well as impulsive behavior, with 75% of people engaging in self-harm and 10% attempting suicide. Both environmental and genetic factors can cause it, such as childhood trauma or genes affecting impulsivity. Antisocial personality disorder involves disregarding others' rights and lacking guilt or remorse, with biological factors like genetics and prefrontal cortex damage potentially contributing to serious behavioral problems starting in childhood.

1. Personality Disorders
What is it and what causes it..

2. Personality Disorders
What is it?
Personality disorders consist of inflexible long
lasting maladaptive traits that cause
significantly impaired impaired functioning or
great distress in one’s personal and social life.

3. Causes of Personality Disorders
- A troubled childhood
- Childhood problems that continue into
adulthood.
- Maladaptive or poor personal relationships.

4. Borderline Personality Disorders:
What is it?
Borderline personality disorders consist of
patterns of instability in personal relationships,
self-image, and emotions, as well as impulsive
behavior.

5. Did you know?
75% percent of people with borderline
personality disorders engage in self-harm like
cutting, burning, or other forms of self
mutilation. Another 10% will eventually likely
commit suicide..

6. Causes of Borderline Personality
Disorders: Both environmental and
genetic causes.
- Experiencing trauma during childhood, such
as abuse or being prohibited from
expressing negative emotions.
- No specific gene is responsible although
impulsivity and aggression are highly
hereditary.

7. ANTI-SOCIAL PERSONALITY
DISORDER
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TYLER GUNA

8. ANTI-SOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER
• ANTI-SOCIAL REFERS TO A PATTERN OF DISREGARDING OR VIOLATING THE RIGHTS OF
OTHERS WITHOUT FEELING GUILT OR REMORSE.
• THE DIAGNOSTIC SYMPTOMS VARY ALONG A CONTINUUM.

9. SIGNS OF ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER
• SYMPTOMS BEGIN AS A CHILD AND ARE MOST EVIDENT BETWEEN THE
20’S AND 30’S.
• SYMPTOMS INCLUDE CRUELTY TO ANIMALS, BULLYING BEHAVIOR, IMPULSIVITY OR
EXPLOSIONS OF ANGER, SOCIAL ISOLATION, AND POOR SCHOOL PERFORMANCE.

10. Biological
Factors
Antisocial Personality Disorder

11. Serious Behavior Problems that start at
a young age, such as:
● Temper tantrums
● Bullying
● Torturing animals
● Habitual lying
Are indicative of

12. Biological Factors
● Genetic
● Based on studies of twins
and adopted children
● “Contribute 30-50% to the
development of antisocial
personality disorder”
● Neurological
● Based on brain scans of
children with antisocial
personality disorder and
studies from children with
brain damage
● Brain scan shows damage
to the prefrontal cortex

13. Brain scan of child with antisocial
personality disorder:
● Shows damage to the
prefrontal cortex
● Children show no empathy,
remorse, or guilt as adults
● Brain scans show that
children and adults with
antisocial personality
disorder have 11% fewer
brain cells in the prefrontal
cortex

14. Prefrontal Cortex of the Brain:
● Responsible for-
– Executive Functions
● Making decisions
● Planning
● Damage to
prefrontal cortex-
– Results in an
increase risk of
developing antisocial
personality disorder