Borderline Personality Disorder dsm 5

Paranoid Personality Disorder:

• Lake of trust in other people, suspicious nature, keeping the things hidden.
• The signs and symptoms are: –
• Suspicious
• Mistrustful
• Sensitive
• Argumentative
• Stubborn
• Self-important
• Hypersensitive
• Jealous and irritable

Schizoid Personality Disorder 

• In Schizoid personality disorder, detachment, social withdrawal, lonely People with this disorder described as loners, with solitary interests and occupations and no close friends; maintain a social distance from family members and seem unconcerned about other’s praise or criticism. 

The signs and symptoms are:  

• Inappropriate effect
• Odd beliefs or magical thinking
• Social withdrawal
• Odd, eccentric 
• Lack of close relationships
• Social isolation
• Not fitting easily with others

Antisocial (Dissocial) Personality Disorder (Sociopath, Psychopath)

• An antisocial personality disorder violates others’ rights or social norms, which predisposes the affected person to criminal behavior. The person cannot maintain consistent, responsible functioning at work, school, or as a parent. 

The signs and symptoms are: 

• Failure to sustain relationships 
• Disregard for the feelings of others
• Impulsive actions 
• Low tolerance for frustration 
• Tendency to cause violence 
• Lack of guilt
• Failure to learn from experience 
• Reckless disregard for own or others safety 
• Impulsivity and failure to plan ahead 
• Manipulative behavior for self-gratification

Histrionic Personality Disorder

Patients with this disorder have an attention-seeking problem and excessively emotional. This disorder is more common in females. People with the disease need to be the center of attention at all times.

The signs and symptoms are:

• Dramatic emotionality (Emotional blackmail, angry scenes, demonstrative, Suicide attempts, etc.)
• Craving for novelty and excitement
• Shallow and labile affectivity
• Attention-seeking behavior
• Over concern with physical attractiveness
• Exaggerated, vague speech
• Self-dramatization
• Impulsivity
• Ego-centricity, self-indulgence, and lack of consideration for others

Narcissistic Personality Disorder

• People with a narcissistic personality are self-absorbed, self-centered, the lack kindness towards other people.
• He typically takes advantage of people to achieve his ends and uses them without regard to their feelings.

The signs and symptoms are:

• Inflated sense of self-importance
• Attention-seeking, dramatic behavior
• Unable to face criticism
• Lack of empathy
• Exploitative behavior
• Arrogance
• Fixed ideas

Borderline personality disorder

• A borderline personality disorder is a pattern of instability in interpersonal relationships, mood, behavior, and self-image.
• The four main categories of signs and symptoms are:
• Unstable relationships
• Unstable self-image
• Unstable emotions
• Impulsivity

Other symptoms include:

• Lack of control of anger
• Recurrent suicidal threats or behavior
• Uncertainty about personal identity
• Chronic feelings of emptiness
• Efforts to avoid abandonment
• Transient stress-related paranoid or dissocia­tive symptoms

Anxious (Avoidant) Personality Disorder: 

• A nervous personality disorder is a feeling of inadequacy, extreme social anxiety, social withdrawal, and hypersensitivity to other opinions.

The signs and symptoms are:

• Persistent feeling of tension and appre­hension
• Inferiority complex
• Fear of criticism, disapproval, or rejection
• Unwillingness to become involved with people
• Poor self-confidence
• Low self-esteem
• Fear of rejection from society 
• Many people with avoidant personality disorder have other psychiatric disorders like social phobia, anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, depressive disorders, and schizophrenia.

Dependent Personality:

• It leads to passive and clinging behavior and fear of separation or rejection. People with this disorder let others make critical decisions and have a strong need for constant reassurance and support.

The signs and symptoms are:

• Feeling discomfort with others.
• inability to take a decision
• low self-esteem
• lack of self-confidence
• Hypersensitivity to criticism. 

Obsessive-compulsive (Anankastic ) Personality Disorder:

• This disorder is marked by a pervasive desire for perfection and order at the expense of openness, flexibility, and efficiency. 
• Person feels that whatever he is doing, that is a perfect way.
• OBLEM: He may force himself and others to follow the right moral principles, conform to too high-performance standards, and insist on literal compliance with authority and rules. 

The signs and symptoms are: 

• Feeling of excessive doubt and caution.
• Preoccupation with details, rules, lists, order or schedule 
• Perfectionism 
• Rigidity and stubbornness 
• High standards