lecture 8 personality disorders

ego syntonic

persons ego is okay with there constant unusual behaviour its “just who they are”

traits extreme

any triat taken to its extreme can become pathological.

schizotiypical

weirdo,supersticious,unconventional,hard to relate with,super rare less than 5%-mostly guys

narcisisitic

more than just an inflated self esteem, great at first impressions but cant keep real relationships. rules are for others,explotive,taking advantage of others. 5-6% prevalence, mostly guys,egosyntonic

antisocial

anti social norms, cheat,lie,reckless,impulsive,dishonest,nothing to do with extroversion. drug abuse,suicide,poverty very rare0.2-3.3 mostly men

borderline

chaotic,unstability,unstable in love to hate self harm suicide manic to depressive prevalent in mostly women very rare 2%

avoidant

constant avoidance of everyday,fear of constant failour, constantly avoiding social world. always expecting the worse. 2.4 pervalence

obsessive compulsive

ocd but extreme ego syntonic

dsm-v

american manual on types of pathology, they have types of personality disorders, this is made for specilists , insurance included if u folllolw discription,objective hhopes that wtver doc you go to you get same anaylisis. traditional and modern.

ICD-11

world health- similar to dsm-v but usuable for non speciilists and they stick to modern non traditional.