psychiatric settings

1. PERSONALITY DISORDER
By shijo joseph
Phone no 8086576276

2. INTRODUCTION
 The word “personality “refers to the pattern of thoughts
feelings and behavior that makes each of us the
individuals that we are.
 We don’t always think, feel and behave in exactly the
same way it depends on the situation we are in, the
people with us, and may other things
 If you have personality disorders, you may find that your
beliefs and attitudes are different from most other
peoples

3. Types of personality disorder
suspicious Emotional and impulsive Anxious
paranoid borderline Avoidant
schizoid histrionic dependent
schizotypal narcissistic Obsessive compulsive
antisocial

4. Paranoid personality disorders
 Find it very difficult to trust other people, believing they will use you, or take
advantage of you.
 Find it hard confide in people, even your friends
 Watch others closely, looking for signs of betrayal or hostility
 Suspect that your partner is being unfaithful, with no evidence

5. Schizoid personality disorders
 Be uninterested in forming close relationship with other people including
your family.
 Prefer to be alone with your own thoughts.
 Choose to live your life without interference from others.
 Get little interest in sex or intimacy.
 Be emotionally cold towards others.

6. Schizotypal personality disorder
 Finding making close relationship extremely difficult.
 Think and express yourself in ways that others find "odd’
 Believe that you can read minds or that you have special powers such as
“sixth sense”
 Feel anxious and tense with others who do not share this beliefs

7. Antisocial personality disorders(ASPD)
 Behave dangerously and sometimes illegally
 Behave in ways that are unpleasant for others
 Do things-even though they may hurt people to get what you want, putting
their needs above theirs
 Be irritable and aggressive and get into fights easily
 Be very easily Bored and you may find it difficult to hold down a job for long.
 Have a criminal record

8. Borderline personality disorders
 Feel that you don’t have a strong sense of who you really are, and others may
describe you as very changeable
 Suffer from mood swings ,switching from one intense emotion to another very
quickly, often with angry out hurts.
 Have brief psychotic episodes, hearing voices or seeing that others don’t
 Do things on impulsive, which you later regret.
 Have s history of storming or broken relationship.
 Have tendency to cling on to very damaging relationship, because you are
terrified of being alone.

9. Histrionic personality disorders
 Feel uncomfortable if you are not the center of attention.
 Feel that you have to entertain people.
 Feel dependent of the approval of others.
 Be easily influenced by others.

10. Narcissistic personality disorders
 Believe that there are special reasons that make you different, better or
more observing than others.
 Feel upset if others ignore you and don’t give you what you feel you deserve
 Resent other peoples success
 Put your own needs above other peoples and demand they do too.
 Selfish
 Take advantages of other people.

11. Dependent personality disorders
 Feel weak and unable to make decisions or function properly without help or
support.
 Allow others to assume responsibility for many areas of your life.
 Agree to things you feel are wrong or you dislike to avoid being alone or
losing someone's support.
 Be afraid of being left to tend yourself.
 Have low self-confidence
 See other people as being much more capable than you are.

12. Obsessive-compulsive personality
disorder
 Need to keep everything in order to under control.
 Set unrealistically high standards for yourself and others.
 Think yours is the best way of making things happen.
 Worry when you or others might make mistakes.

13. conclusion
 There are several types off treatments available for personality disorders.
Like talking treatment,cbt,group therapy, medication.
 May people consider that personality disorders are difficult to treat because
they involve such deeply patterns of thoughts, feelings and ways of relating
others
 Successful treatments aim to help you make this happen by focusing on the
way you think and behave, how to control your emotions, developing
successful relationship and getting more out of life..