Types of Personality disorder - akansh sharma

 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 people.

TYPES OF PERSONALITY           9 DISORDER 

a) Paranoid personality disorder

b) Schizoid personality disorder

c) Schizotypal personality disorder

  

         PARANOID PERSONALITY DISORDER 

The thoughts, feelings and experiences associated with paranoia may cause you to:

1) Find it hard to confide in people, even your friends and family

2) Find it very difficult to trust other people, believing they will use you or take advantage of you

3) Have difficulty relaxing

4)Read threats and danger (which others don't see) into everyday situations, innocent remarks or casual looks from others.

5) This might become such a big problem in your life that you are given a diagnosis of paranoid personality disorder. See our page on paranoia for more information.

           SCHIZOID PERSONALITY DISORDER

Many people with schizoid personality disorder are able to function fairly well. Unlike in schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder, you would not usually have psychotic symptoms. However, as a result of the thoughts and feelings associated with this diagnosis you may:

find difficulty forming close relationships with other people

choose to live your life without interference from others

prefer to be alone with your own thoughts

not experience pleasure from many activities

have little interest in sex or intimacy

have difficulty relating to or are emotionally cold towards others.

SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER 

Everyone has their own eccentricities or awkward behaviours. But if your patterns of thinking and behaving make relating to others very difficult, you may receive a diagnosis of schizotypal personality disorder.

Unlike in schizophrenia, you usually would not experience psychosis. However, you may:

experience distorted thoughts or perceptions 

find making close relationships extremely difficult

think and express yourself in ways that others find 'odd', using unusual words or phrases, making relating to others difficult

believe that you can read minds or that you have special powers such as a 'sixth sense'

feel anxious and tense with others who do not share these beliefs

feel very anxious and paranoid in social situations, finding it hard to relate to others

              Conclusions. 

It is evident that all individuals have a personality, as indicated by their characteristic way of thinking, feeling, behaving, and relating to others. For some people, these traits result in a considerable degree of distress and/or impairment, constituting a personality disorder.