Avoidant and Dependent Personality Disorder
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.
A person with Avoidant Personality Disorder is someone who feels very shy, inadequate, and is extremely sensitive to rejection. Individuals with this disorder are also more likely to suffer from anxiety disorders. According to the National Institute of Mental Health it is said to be prevalent in about 5.2 percent of the U.S. adult population. It is not an overwhelming amount of people however it is a major personality disorder that should not be take...
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...dealing with and treating individuals who suffer from them. Over the next few years technology will help us begin to learn more about them and we can then learn more efficient ways of dealing with these disorders. Not only do these disorders have a harmful effect on the individuals who suffer from them, but everyone around them they are affecting as well. That is why these disorders have such a damaging effect on people’s lives. Hopefully one day we know enough about these disorders to prevent them from happening in the first place.
Citations
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One of the most common anxiety disorder is social phobia, which can sometimes be interchangeable with Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD). Marc de Rosnay, and others, states that Social Anxiety Disorder is characterized by a clearly noticeable fear and avoidance of most social situations where the individual may be put under scrutiny by others, and by fear in such situations, the individual will behave in an embarrassing manner (de Rosnay). One of the most notable feature of social phobia is that it has an early onset, as early as 7-9 months in most cases. The characteristics of having social phobia, or social anxiety disorder, is that the individuals are shy when meeting new people, quiet in a large group, blush easily, and often avoids making eye contact. There are a lot of concerns/problems with having social anxiety disorder. As a group, individuals with anxiety disorders had the largest burden of role disability compared to other common mental health conditions, exceeding the burden for mood disorders and in some cases, substance abuse (Grigorenko).
Mayo Clinic Staff. "Schizophrenia." Definition. Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, 24 Jan. 2014. Web. 31 Jan. 2014.
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).
Staff, Mayo Clinic. "Narcissistic Personality Disorder." Mayo Clinic. Ed. Daniel K. Hall-Flavin. Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, 04 Nov. 2011. Web. 01 Dec. 2013.
Avoidance is the act of avoiding or keeping away from something or someone. Avoidance include staying away from thoughts, conversations, activities, places or people that in PTSD could remind the victim of the trauma undergone.
People with this personality trait are self-defeating, anxious, and constantly worried about their appropriateness. These people are subject to temper fluctuations and negative emotions such as anger, antipathy, and guilt. They are also more likely to have irrational thoughts, and unable to control their impulses and effectively cope with their problems, (Davis & Palladino, 2004). The theory also emphasizes that genetics and environment also play a role in the development of disorders. Genetically, trait theorists suggest that some people are born with provisions to have personality disorders. Also it is considered that negative environment has an influence in developing these ailments, (Dombeck & Wells-Moran,
Personality is a branch in psychology that studies the variation of personality among individuals and their differences in characteristic patterns of feeling, behaving and thinking. My first source (group A) comes from the APA (American Psychological Association). The topic What causes personality disorders is on how "research suggests that genetics, abuse and other factors contribute to the development of obsessive compulsive, narcissistic or other personality disorders." My second source (group B) comes from TIME Magazine. The article How the Month You Were Born Affects Your Personality, According to Science is about how the season you were born in can cause clinical issues more than others.
The causes of Avoidant personality disorder very greatly. However most psychologists believe in the biopsychosocial model. This states that there is no single cause of Avoidant personality disorder. Adrian’s development of Avoidant Personality Disorder could have been in response to social or psychological factors or even have been genetic.
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Diseases and Medical Treatment Today’s modern medicine and treatments have really evolved from methods going back centuries. Nowadays, there’s a medicine for the majority of illnesses, and a method of treatments for the majority of injuries. Not just physical illnesses, also mental illnesses such as depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorder.
Avoidant Personality Disorder, (APD), is one of the most socially hindering types of psychological problems known to humanity. From the moment a person is born, they begin to develop their own identity, their own personality. Many different factors come into play during the development of one’s personality. Unfortunately, each individual personality may also contain a personality disorder.
It is amazing to see how far we have come in such a little time in regards to medicine and science. Even in just the last 100 years so much has been discovered and learned. The human mind is a very complicated and fascinating thing, and then when mental abnormalities are thrown in, it becomes an amazing thing to study. There are so many mental illnesses and disorders out there now, and still more still to be discovered and diagnosed. The DSM-5 explains different clusters of personality disorders that have already been discovered and learned about. Cluster B in the DSM-5 lists ten personality disorders that include the histrionic, narcissistic, and borderline personality disorders. These disorders are considered the dramatic and erratic personality disorders and share problems with impulse control and emotional regulation (DSM-5: the 10 personality disorders: cluster b).
Personality is the study of an individual’s unique and relatively stable patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving over time and across situations and it is what distinguishes one individual from another. In the past changes in personality were thought to have only occurred in the developmental stages of childhood and solidifies in adolescence. After the teenage years it was thought to be set like plaster or the change seen to be inconsequential or absent( Srivastava, John, Gosling, and Potter, 2003). However, recent studies have suggested that changes in personality traits continue to occur throughout an individual’s lifespan due to multiple reasons.