Page Paugh Homework 5 3/18/14 Personality disorders: is a mental health condition. Within this condition a person has long-term of behaviors, thoughts and emotions. These actions are typically extremely different than they society’s expectation. These behaviors can cause serious problems at home, work even in relationships. They have trouble dealing with everyday stress and often have stormy relationships with other people. The cause(s) of personality disorders vary from person to person. These causes can go anywhere from abuse to the mother doing drugs while pregnant. The symptoms are different as well. They can be moderate or intolerable. The person with the disorder tends to not realize they are the one with the problem and often blame others for their actions. Treatments for this, is usually therapy and medications. This disorder usually becomes apparent in the early teens and early adulthood. And less obvious in the middle-aged. There are many types of personality disorders such as paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal, antisocial, borderline, histrionic, narcissistic, dependent, and obsessive- compulsive disorders. Treatment and severity vary by disorder. Dissociative Disorders: There are four major dissociative disorders, these include amnesia, identity, fugue, depersonalization disorder. All of these disorders have very similar symptoms. These symptoms include: memory loss of this includes people, time and places, mental health problems like anxiety, being detached from yourself, seeing things around you in a distorted way and unreal, and not really knowing who you are. This is a common defense to a traumatic situation. This impairs the normal state of awareness and causes them to lose to lose their since of self. treatment for... ... middle of paper ... ... a change in a persons thinking to help resolve conflict. This can be done either in groups or alone. This can be individual, groups, martial, couples, and family. Different approaches to therapy include psychodynamic, which is based on assumption that the client is having emotional issues due to unresolved conflicts, more so than often from childhood. The goal is to help the client better understand and cope with the experiences by talking about them with a counslor. Can last several months to several years. Another type is interpersonal therapy. This focuses on the behaviors and interaction with family and friends. The goal of this therapy is to improve communication skills and increase self-esteem in a short period of time. This can last any where between three and four months. This is suggested for depression and mourning major life events, even social isolation.
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In the past, BPD was believed to be a set of symptoms between problems associated with mood and schizophrenia. These symptoms were believed to be comprised of distortions of reality and mood problems. A closer look at this disorder has resulted in the realization that even though the symptoms of this disorder reveal emotional complexity, this disorder is more closer to other personality disorders, on the basis of the manner in which it develops and occurs in families, than to schizophrenia (Hoffman, Fruzzetti, Buteau &ump; Neiditch, 2005). The use of the term borderline has however, resulted in a heated controversy between the health care fraternity and patients. Patients argue that this term appears to be somehow discriminatory and that it should be removed and the disorder renamed. Patients point out that an alternative name, such as emotionally unstable personality disorder, should be adopted instead of borderline personality disorder. Clinicians, on the other hand, argue that there is nothing wrong with the use of the term borderline. Opponents of this term argue that the terms used to describe persons suffering from this disorder, such as demanding, treatment resistant, and difficult among others, are discriminatory. These terms may create a negative feeling of health professionals towards patients, an aspect that may lead to adoption of negative responses that may trigger self-destructive behavior (Giesen-Bloo et al, 2006). The fact however, is that the term borderline has been misunderstood and misused so much that any attempt to redefine it is pointless leaving scrapping the term as the only option.
Personality, defined by Merriam-Webster, is a set of enduring behavioral and mental traits that distinguish human beings from one another. Therefore, a personality disorder “is a type of mental illness in which you have trouble perceiving and relating to situations and to people—including yourself” (American Psychiatric Association, 2000). In general, someone who suffers from a personality disorder has a long-term pattern of behaviors and emotions that are very different from the society’s view of “normal”.
A personality disorder is an unhealthy group of mental illness (Personality Disorders , 2013). These thoughts and behaviors cause a series of problems in a person’s life. The disorder has often been linked to destruction in social, occupational, and an overall functioning of life (Soeteman, Verheul, & Busschbach, 2008).The person has often had problems associating with other people and managing stress (Personality Disorders , 2013). Personality disorders are consistently noted in a person that has obsessive-compulsive disorder (Butcher, 2010).
Dissociative Identity Disorder, also known as Multiple Personality Disorder, is a psychological disorder that can be caused by many things, but the most common cause is severe childhood trauma which is usually extreme, repetitive physical, sexual, or emotional abuse. A lot of people experience mild dissociation, which includes daydreaming or getting momentarily distracted while completing everyday tasks. Dissociative identity disorder is a severe form of dissociation. Severe Dissociation causes a lack of connection in a person's thoughts, memories, feelings, actions, or sense of identity. Dissociative identity disorder is thought to stem from a combination of factors that may include trauma experienced by the person with the disorder.
There are so many types of mental illnesses that affect people every day. When some people think of mental illnesses they think of the ones that would cause people to have physical symptoms as well, but that’s untrue, there are many more that you would never know anyone has if you were to see them on the street. As defined by the 2008 encyclopedia “a mental illness is any disease of the mind or brain that seriously affects a person’s ability or behavior. Symptoms of a mental illness may include extreme moods, such as excessive sadness or anxiety, or a decreased ability to think clearly or remember well.” A mentally ill person has severe symptoms that damage the person’s ability to function in everyday activities and situations. Every nation and every economic level can be affected by a mental illness. In the United States alone about 3% of the population has severe mental illness and to add to that number about 40% of people will experience a type of mental illness at least once in their lives. Some cases of mental illnesses can go away on their own, but some cases are so severe that they require professional treatment. There is so much more available to help people recover from their symptoms than in the past.
From the second someone is born, his or her personality starts to take shape. In early life, and then later on to their teenage years, the person explores many kinds of behaviors. Of all the behavior, or personalities, the person experiences, one of them will stick with them forever. Some of these behaviors can form personality disorders. “A personality disorder is a type of mental disorder in which you have a rigid and unhealthy pattern of thinking, functioning and behaving. A person with a personality disorder has trouble perceiving and relating to situations and to people. This causes significant problems and limitations in relationships, social encounters, work and school” (“Definitions”). This is the definition of personality disorders described by Mayo Clinic. Studies have shown that many personality disorders develop in childhood or early adulthood, and often people that struggle with these disorders have difficult time learning, and an even greater difficulty in changing their behavior. People with personality disorders often have a hard time functioning or fitting into society. There are many different kinds of personality disorders; two of the most unique personality disorders are Avoidant and Dependent Personality Disorders.
More than two million cases can be found in psychological and psychiatric records of multiple personality disorders also called dissociative identity disorders. Dissociative Identity, formerly known as multiple personality disorder, is a condition in which, an individual has a host personality along with at least two or more personalities with each identity having his or her own ideas, memories, thoughts and way of doing things (Bennick). Personality disorders are a group of mental illnesses. They involve thoughts and behaviors that are unhealthy and inflexible. A person with a personality disorder has trouble perceiving and relating to situations and people. This causes significant problems and limitations in relationships, social activities,
The Dissociative Disorders category of the DSM-IV-TR, is characterized by a disruption in the functions of perception, identity, consciousness, or memory. The disorders in the Dissociative Disorders category include Dissociative Amnesia, Dissociative Fugue, Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), Depersonalization Disorder and Dissociative Disorder Not Otherwise Specified.
There are two different kinds of disorders, personality disorders and psychological disorders. Psychological disorders are illnesses that an individual experiences a restricted period in which they possess an illness. Personality disorders are long lasting traits that play a large role in the individual's personality (Rathus, 2010). No matter what kind of disorder a person may possess their lives are affected everyday by them. The disorder takes over their body and consumes them as a person. Disorders are oftentimes misunderstood. You do not have the ability to make a split second decision and then continue life without that disorder, it will take lots of counseling. Everyone has some kind of minute form of a disorder even
There are ten different personality disorders, each having specific symptoms, but all of them share certain characteristics. The first of these characteristics is that an individual who has a personality disorder noticeably deviates from the individual’s culture’s expectation of that person. The second characteristic is that the sufferer is unable to function normally in social, occupational, and other important areas due to the disorder. The last common characteristic is that the origins of the disorder can be traced to adolescence or early adulthood and is never the result of another mental illness or medical condition.
DSM IV further lists five types of dissociative disorder which are depersonalization disorder (DSM- IV Code 300.6) – characterized by periods of detachment from self and surrounding, Dissociative amnesia (DSM- IV code 300.12) – impairment of recall due to emotional trauma, Dissociative fugue (DSM- IV code 300.13) - impaired recall of the past and surrounding, Dissociative identity disorder (DSM- IV code 300.14) – alternation of two or more distinct personality states. To conclude, a review carried out in 2007 noted that conversion and dissociative disorders are statistically similar with common underlying causes. Therefore, conversion disorder should be reclassified from a somatoform to a dissociative disorder.
The treatment is based around psychotherapy, in other words talk therapy. According to the Mayo Clinic talk therapy helps one relate better to others so ones relationships are more enjoyable. It also helps one understand the causes of one’s emotional fluctuation and what drives you to distrust others and hate yourself at times. Although changing one’s personality can take years of therapy it can help maintain and build relationships, help accept criticisms, help understand your feelings, increase or manage self-esteem, and help let go of ideas you believe you need to be like to be
There are many types of diverse people classified under various categories. Some people have different types of personalities. They could be classified as extremely manipulative, others as impulsive, and some may not show anything on the outside and have wonderful social skills. These categories help in the understanding of humans. This study is called Psychology and there are many different subfields in this diverse study of the people around us. One subfield that is particularly interesting is personality psychology. Personality psychology is a branch of psychology that studies personality and its variation between individuals.
Personality takes many shapes and forms and is affected by many factors. My understanding of personality is simply a genetic and environmentally determined set of psychological traits that influence our reactions in the world around us. Genetic because our parents possess a certain set of psychological personality traits that we tend to have in common with them so therefore in my opinion there are heritable personality traits. Personality is environmental because we each have our own separate experiences in the world and these experiences help form our unique personality. Neo-Freudians such as Jung have given us a wide array of ideas of how they believe personality is developed and formatted. Jung in particular has a very interesting