Personality Disorders

Paranoid Personality Disorder

Cluster A (Odd or Eccentric): Distrust and suspiciousness of others; believes others are exploiting/harming/deceiving them; doubts loyalty; reluctant to confide; reads hidden meanings into benign remarks; bears grudges; perceives attacks on character; recurrent suspicions of infidelity.

Schizoid Personality Disorder

Cluster A (Odd or Eccentric): Detachment from social relationships; lacks desire for close relationships; prefers solitary activities; little interest in sex; takes pleasure in few activities; lacks close friends; indifferent to praise/criticism; emotional coldness and flattened affect. (Zoid as in alien who is solitary and lacks connections)

Schizotypal Personality Disorder

Cluster A (Odd or Eccentric): Discomfort with close relationships; ideas of reference; odd beliefs/magical thinking; unusual perceptual experiences; odd thinking/speech; suspiciousness; inappropriate/constricted affect; eccentric behavior/appearance; few close friends due to social anxiety; excessive social anxiety driven by paranoia. (Play magic with no Pals)

Antisocial Personality Disorder

Cluster B (Dramatic, Emotional, or Erratic): Disregard for and violation of rights of others; failure to conform to laws; deceitfulness; impulsivity; irritability/aggressiveness; reckless disregard for safety; consistent irresponsibility; lack of remorse.

Borderline Personality Disorder

Cluster B (Dramatic, Emotional, or Erratic): Instability in relationships, self-image, and affect; frantic efforts to avoid abandonment; unstable intense relationships (idealization/devaluation); identity disturbance (“feel empty”); impulsive behaviors (sex, drugs, spending); recurrent suicidal behavior/self-harm; affective instability; chronic emptiness; inappropriate anger; transient stress-related paranoia or dissociation. Splitting(all good or all bad)

Histrionic Personality Disorder

Cluster B (Dramatic, Emotional, or Erratic): Excessive emotionality and attention-seeking; uncomfortable when not center of attention; inappropriate sexual/provocative behavior; rapidly shifting shallow emotions; uses appearance for attention; impressionistic speech; theatrical/dramatic; suggestible; perceives relationships as more intimate than they are.

Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Cluster B (Dramatic, Emotional, or Erratic): Grandiosity; preoccupied with fantasies of success/power/brilliance; believes they are special/unique; requires excessive admiration; sense of entitlement; interpersonally exploitative; lacks empathy; envious of others; arrogant behaviors/attitudes.

Avoidant Personality Disorder

Cluster C (Anxious or fearful): Social inhibition and feelings of inadequacy; avoids interpersonal contact due to fear of criticism/rejection; unwilling to get involved unless certain of being liked; preoccupied with criticism; views self as inept/unappealing/inferior; avoids risks/new activities due to embarrassment.

Dependent Personality Disorder

Cluster C (Anxious or fearful): Excessive need to be taken care of; difficulty making decisions without reassurance; needs others to assume responsibility; difficulty disagreeing due to fear of disapproval; difficulty initiating tasks; excessive need for nurturance/support; uncomfortable alone; urgently seeks new relationships when one ends; fears being left to care for self.

Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder

Cluster C (Anxious or fearful): Preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and control; perfectionism interferes with task completion; workaholic; overly conscientious and rigid about morals/ethics; difficulty discarding items; difficulty delegating; miserly spending; rigid and stubborn.