The Types of Personality Disorders and How to Recognize Them

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THE TYPES OF PERSONALITY DISORDERS AND HOW TO
RECOGNIZE THEM
Understanding Personality Disorders from a
Professional Perspective
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INTRODUCTION

• Many have a base level idea of what a specific
  personality disorder entails, but this can be
  marred by stereotypes, misinformation and
  societal misconceptions of mental illness.
• This slideshow will explore personality disorders
  through their Cluster categories, then explain
  them in more detail.

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CLUSTERS OF DISORDERS

• Personality disorders are grouped into three
  different categories, defined as clusters. Each
  cluster covers a different type classification of
  disorders.
• Cluster A These disorders are often odd and
  eccentric in nature.
• Cluster B These disorders encompass more
  dramatic, emotional tendencies.
• Cluster C These disorders are more fearful or
  anxious in nature.

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CLUSTER APARANOID PERSONALITY DISORDER
Paranoid personality disorder is characterized by
irrational suspicion. People who suffer from
this disorder often believe the world is out to
get them, and will connect unrelated, disjointed
ideas in order to mentally justify their
paranoia. Those who suffer from this disorder
often mischaracterize others as having malicious
intent, causing them to disconnect from others
around them.
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CLUSTER ASCHIZOID PERSONALITY DISORDER
Sufferers of schizoid personality disorder often
lack the capability to connect with others. They
exhibit extreme levels of apathy that cannot be
connected to an outside source, like
autism. These people often suffer from a severe
lack of expression. While they may be capable of
experiencing an emotion, their ability to show
this emotion is severely limited.
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CLUSTER A SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER
Unlike schizoid personality disorder where a
person lacks the ability to connect with others,
those who suffer from schizotypal personality
disorder feel extremely uncomfortable connecting
with others. This heavily prevents them from
interacting socially with others in a normal way,
causing them to act aloof and eccentrically when
faced with interaction.
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CLUSTER BANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER
Those with this disorder arent antisocial in the
way that they dont interact with others.
Instead, anti refers to not living within the
societal norms in a way that is often invasive
and dangerous. Those that suffer with this
disorder often disregard the safety, comfort and
wishes of others, lacking empathy and
understanding of why their actions are dangerous
or abusive.
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CLUSTER BBORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER
BPD sufferers have a very limited grasp on normal
emotional reactions. Because they feel
invalidated by others, they feel like they must
create scenarios in which they gain the
validation they otherwise lack. This disorder
can effect someones ability to care for
themselves and often fractures their
relationships with those around them.
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CLUSTER BHISTRIONIC PERSONALITY DISORDER
The behaviors of those with histrionic
personality disorder are attention-seeking
often to the detriment of the person afflicted.
These sufferers will often go out of their way
and put themselves into harmful situations in
order to gain the attention of others.
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CLUSTER BNARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER
Those that suffer from narcissism as a form of
disorder have an overly-inflated ego. They have
grandiose fantasies about their abilities and
status that far exceed their reality, and often
lack empathy with others due to their belief that
they are the most important and beloved person in
a scenario. This is often a delusion, as many
friends and family members of those who suffer
with this disorder alienate themselves from the
affected person.
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CLUSTER CAVOIDANT PERSONALITY DISORDER

• Those diagnosed with avoidant personality
  disorder will go out of their way to avoid
  interacting with others because they dont want
  to be perceived negatively.
• These individuals believe that they are incapable
  of interacting with others due to inadequacy,
  thus close themselves off to avoid facing this
  fear.

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CLUSTER CDEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER
This disorder is effectively the opposite of
avoidant personality disorder. People with
dependent personality disorder will go out of
their way to make sure they are taken care of by
others at all times. They feel that they must
interact with and be cared for by others in order
to become adequate, though this need is never
truly met in their eyes.
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CLUSTER COBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER
While the general idea of OCD is someone being a
neat freak, the reality is that the diagnosis is
much broader. Those with OCD feel a prolonged,
debilitating sense of anxiety unless they follow
strict rules or rituals which they believe will
keep the anxiety at bay. This can including
patterns, habits, cleanliness and other forms of
perfectionism.