Personality Disorders

Cluster A

ODD or eccentric behavior including paranoid, schizoid, and schizotypal.

Cluster A symptoms

Suspicious, guarded, hostile, mistrust, avoid relationships, holds grudges, argumentative.

Cluster B

DRAMATIC, emotional, or erratic behavior including antisocial, borderline, histrionic, and narcissistic.

Cluster C

ANXIOUS or fearful behavior including avoidant, dependent, and obsessive-compulsive.

Paranoid personality disorder

Disturbed or illogical thoughts; misinterpretation of environmental stimuli.

Schizoid Personality disorder

Seclusive, isolated, hard to experience joy, emotionally detached.

Schizotypal Personality Disorder

Magical beliefs; perceptual aberrations; referential thinking; paranoia.

Borderline Personality Disorder

Problem regulating their mood, developing self-identity, maintaining relationships, impulsive and destructive.

Antisocial Personality disorder

Disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others; doesn't follow society rules.

Histrionic Personality disorder

Attention seeking, excitable, emotional, 'life of the party'.

Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Grandiose, believe they're superior, self-centered.

Avoidant Personality disorder

Extensive avoidance of social interaction driven by fears of rejection and feelings of personal inadequacy.

Dependent Personality Disorder

Cling to others/desperate - total submission and disregard for self; need to be taken care of.

Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder

Rigid, stubborn, and indecisive; need for order and control and hoarding and indecision.

Intermittent Explosive Disorder

Episodes of aggressiveness that result in assault or destruction of property.

Kleptomania

Urge to steal.

Pyromania

Irresistible impulses to start fires.