Breaking down term “Personality”

• What would be difference between “state” and “trait”?

  • State: is the quality of a person’s experience; typically temporary or chronic, i.e. is a disorder— when you are affected by something, disorder is

  • Trait: Who you are, defining characteristic of yourself

• Personality is who you are.

  • personality disorder is an extension (exponential) of personality that is harmful in some way.

Check out The Personality Puzzle to understand personality psychology:

• https://thehomeworkhelpers.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/the-personality-puzzle-8e.pdf

Hard to determine a personality disorder because…

1. They are chronic

2. Most people just accept that the behavior is just who they are.

High comorbidity with Personality disorders

• Generally poor prognosis (is usually ego-syntonic)

  • Ego-syntonic: Your abnormal, disordered traits are misinterpreted by the individual as normal characteristics of their personality, is who they are

  • Ego-dystonic

• “Kind” vs “

  • Should not be setting people into groups, but placing them on a scale; to what degree do they have something, etc

• Prevalence affects about 10% of general population— however, this depends on how one DEFINES personality disorder.

Paranoid Personality Disorder (Cluster A) is often understudied in addition to being not well understood

• associated with early childhood trauma or modeling

• Need for control, constantly talking about conspiracy theories

• perceived attacks

• Video of example of paranoid personality disorder

• Video of example of paranoid thoughts

  • https://capq.us/

• Need confirmation of their delusions

Right hemisphere in looks for negative expressions. Unconscious perceptual process Interpret positive reactions as negative