Personality Disorders

Question: Personality Disorders? What are the most commonly seen personality disorders? What kinds of therapy can someone get? Are there other ways of get help? Like medicines?

Answer: Personality disorders are fairly treatment-resistant. Docs treat the symptoms as best they can, but unlike Axis I affective disorders the Axis II personality disorders tend to be more pervasive (affecting more parts of the person's life) and more persistent (depression is an episodic illness, personality disorders don't go away). Most of the personality disorders have an occurrence rate of 1 to 3% of the population. Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD) is notoriously underdiagnosed. It affects 3 or 4% of the population. Partly because it's less recognized and partly because people with it don't usually seek treatment, ASPD is infrequently diagnosed. For all personality disorders, the most effective treatment is cognitive behavioral therapy. Such therapy helps the person recognize and counter maladaptive thoughts. Therapy in combination with medication usually yields the best results. For some personality disorders (like ASPD), there really is no effective treatment.

Question: How would these personality disorders affect a project such as Collins submarine computerization ? Cluster A includes personality disorders marked by odd, eccentric behavior, including paranoid, schizoid and schizotypal personality disorders. Cluster B personality disorders are those defined by dramatic, emotional behavior, including histrionic, narcissistic, antisocial and borderline personality disorders. Cluster C personality disorders are characterized by anxious, fearful behavior and include obsessive-compulsive, avoidant and dependent personality disorders.

Answer: It is VERY unlikely. Why??? Because believe it or not... LOTS of people have these. The severity of each. Any extreme behavior can be detected, and normally, these would have NO effect on the computerization of a submarine.

Question: How many personality disorders can a person have? I am just curious,l how many personality disorders can one person have? Can someone have borderline, narcissistic, and paranoid personality disorders at the same time? Or more even? I know some of them have qualities that relate somewhat but if the person meets the criteria entirely for more than one of them do doctors diagnose them with multiple disorders? thanks! Sorry for the confusion. I am not asking in regards to DID or MPD I'm talking about having more than one personality disorder, not more than one personality.

Answer: multiple personality disorder is not to be confused with schizophrenia. there are only around 5000 actual diagnosed cases. with mpd, there is at least two distinctive personalities. there can be as many as are needed to cope with different situations. a lot of the time, one personality tries to dominate over the others and this ends in the person killing themselves.

Question: What are some personality disorders a blind person would have? Say a blind girl's parents home schooled her and didn't really let her have a social life because they wanted to "protect" her. What kind of personality disorders might she have?

Answer: Personality disorders are rare and there's no reason that a blind person would be more likely to have a personality disorder than a sighted person. A child that is isolated from other kids would not have developed the social skills and experience that is normal for her age level, and so as a result she's probably insecure, naive, depressed, lonely... which are not personality disorders.

Question: What do you all think of personality disorders? A lot of people think they may have personality disorders, But when it comes to doctors, they make a careful diagnosis. In actualality, people's symptoms fit in to a bunch of different "labels" Do you agree that doctors may be over diagnosing people with personality disorders?

Answer: I have many years of experience as a therapist in the mental health field and can affirm the reluctance of insurance companies to authorize treatment for personality disorders. However, in most reports I see, the presence of a personality disorder is noted if the clinician believes it's there. I don't see clinicians as prone to either under or over diagnose personality disorders, but I am sure there are some practice settings where that happens. Bottom line is that the DSM IV TR spells out the criteria for meeting the various personality disorder clusters, and you use those guidelines in making decisions. If the clinician is lazy and relies on instinct or impression to diagnose, rather than use the criteria, well, that's just not being very thorough

Question: what do all personality disorders have in common? I have been studying personality disorders and I am wondering is there anything that all personalities have in common? Such as losing touch with reality? Can you give me some examples of disorders that prove this common ground?

Answer: well in personality disorders. all behaviors must be a long lasting rigid pattern of behavior to be a disorder

Question: What is the relationship between the five factor model and personality disorders? Does anyone know of a good website that covers the relationship between the five factor model of personality and personality disorders? Is there a book that covers this topic?

Answer: You can try www.apa.org/books, and www.half.com has a lot of used text books. Google in your keywords, FIVE FACTOR MODEL PERSONALITY DISORDER (When you're scanning thru info on websites etc., it helps to do ctrl-A then ctrl-F & punch in a keyword so you can quick get to the part you're looking for on a certain web-page) And here's some psych. glossaries that might help: http://canfield.etext.net/glossary.htm http://www.hallowquest.com/glossaryai.ht… http://www.foundationcoalition.org/home/…

Question: Why do personality disorders seem to fit everyone? Researching personality disorders seems to be the same as reading the daily horoscopes, they all apply - for the most part - in general to everyone. Aside of course, from the extreme profiles that interrupt the ability to negotitate life in a manner that works within society. Are we all psychologically challenged and in need of help or is it just that we all possess a wide variety of characteristics that blend differently in each of us making no two completely alike, and that's okay?

Answer: Personality disorders are personality flaws taken to the extreme that affect every day functioning. So, anyone can be self-centered but if you are self-centered to the point that you're willing to hurt someone (emotionally, physically or otherwise) to get what you want and no one wants to be your friend because of this then you have a personality disorder.

Question: What type of psychology is the personality disorders included in? The whole personality disorders intrigue me and I just want to know is it clinical, social etc.

Answer: abnormal psychology.

Question: Do personality disorders in people translate to problems in the software ? Isn't it true you don't really know what personality disorders people have ? So do you need to accept any data "for information only" and make your own enquiries about the veracity of that data ? I was meaning people with "narcissistic personality disorder" - nothing wrong with that but it can surface on a submarine project as "office powerpath" who ignores guidelines and ruins everything.

Answer: Probably although most people I know with diagnosed personality disorders do 'out' themselves within relationships as we are concerned about our behaviours and need help in relationship so that other can can take it into account. Poor behaviour that is a choice doesn't really count as a personality disorder. I have multiple personality disorder which isn't actually a personality disorder but is on the dissociative disorder scale - and it translates to having too many screens/windows up at one time and crashing often, when on overload. There are no viruses juts a frisky overloaded system. I let other peopel know because it is thier choice whether to make a relationship with that chaos . The relationships I have internal and external are clean and clear and more glitch free than anything I see going on outside. I think people who are labeled for having mental health symptoms usually do an immense amount of work upon themselves which is not the case for those who think they have no problems I think it is wise to accept everything as FYI only - I do - I never accept anyones self promotional blurbs without testing it out for myself.