A form of mental disorder known as personality disorder involves dysfunctional thought, behavior, and functioning patterns. A person with a personality disorder has trouble understanding how the world works. As a result, serious issues and limitations develop in interpersonal interactions, social interactions, employment, and academic pursuits.People who have this kind of condition are unaware that they have a problem because their style of thinking and acting comes naturally to them; in some cases, they even attribute their difficulties to others.There are three groups of personality disorders with different manifestations:
Group A includes personality disorders with paranoid, schizoid, and schizotypal symptoms and manifestations:
Paranoid personality disorder is manifested in mistrust of others, suspicion about other people and their motives, aggressive behavior, and others.
Schizoid personality disorder is commonly manifested in isolation and lack of interest in social life, any activities, communications, inability to enjoy the joys of life, and others.
Schizotypal personality disorder manifests in severe social anxiety, inappropriate emotions, searching for a hidden messages in events, belief that a person has a power to influence other people’s thoughts and actions with their mind, and others.
Group B personality disorders include antisocial, borderline, and narcissistic personality disorders:
Antisocial personality disorder is commonly manifested in constant lying, problems with the law, impulsivity, and aggressive and violent behavior.
Borderline personality disorder is manifested in a tendency to risky behavior, mood swings, fear of abandonment, promiscuity, and others.
Narcissistic personality disorder manifests in an exaggerated sense of self-importance, accomplishments or talents, arrogance, persistent excessive desire for praise and adoration, lack of empathy, and placing oneself in the spotlight, and others.
Group C personality disorders include avoidant, dependent, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorders:
Avoidant personality disorder manifests in increased emotional sensitivity, sense of inferiority, tendency to isolate oneself, fear of humiliation, shyness, and others.
Dependent personality disorder manifests in abnormal dependence on others, neediness, low self-esteem, inability to be alone, inability to leave abusive relationships, and others.
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder manifests in overwhelming perfectionism, the need to control everything and everyone, and rigid attitudes about morality, ethics, and values.