PERSONALITY DISORDERS

If you were ask to describe a friend's personality, they might describe them as generally being creative type or easy going but nervous in groups. Basically, you were trying to summarize the personality traits that make them who they are. Either how they think or how they act sometimes. This thought pattern behavior which makes up the person's personality can actually be harmful in a sense they interfere with their daily functioning in their personal life at work or social settings. If this were the case, we will say that the individual has a personality disorder.

Let's start with the CLUSTER A(classified as "weird personality")
This includes 3 personality disorders.

1. PARANOID (sometimes describes as "Accusatory")
They are generally distrustful and suspicious of other people. They also assume others will disappoint, manipulate or talk behind their back.

These people tend to have superficial relationships and be in a state of isolation because it's hard to have real friends when you're suspicious of everyone.

2. SCHIZOID
These people avoid social interaction because they simply aren't interested in getting to know others. And this is distinct from being isolated to the paranoia, like in paranoid personality disorder or due to social anxiety or avoidant personality disorder.

They can find physical contact in all forms of less pleasurable from sexual activity to holding hands. They are less motivated to seek them out from the average individual person. They might also have flat effect in emotional blunting, meaning they tend to not show positive or negative emotions.

3. SCHIZOTYPAL
These people engage in excessive magical thinking which is where they might think that completely random events are linked to each other. They also believe that in particularly tune with the events surrounds them leads to overconfidence and a self-centered way of speaking that's socially inappropriate to turn people off.

CLUSTER B(Classified as "wild personality")
Includes 4 personality disorders.

1. ANTISOCIAL
This sounds like they don't get along with others. But in fact, it's the opposite because these people can be really charming - often used to manipulate others for personal gain.

These individuals disregard for moral values and social norms, have little empathy and poor impulse control. This combination makes them willing to hurt others if it helps them.....making them prone to aggressive and unlawful behavior at times earning the labels "SOCIOPATH" or "PSYCHOPATH".

2. BORDERLINE PERSONALITY
These individuals has unstable moods, they go from intense joy in one minute to rage next minute and this leads to intense; Sometimes wonderful relationships that generally become dramatic and sour overtime. This pattern sometimes called stable instability because the only consistent thing is instability.

These people often use defense mechanism called splitting where people and important things like a job are seen as completely good or bad. In addition, people with borderline disorder are often terrified of abondonment and might do extreme things like suicide to keep someone from leaving them.

3.HISTRIONIC
With a key feature of attention seeking and excessive emotionality which is sometimes manipulate the situation to draw more attention to themselves.

These behavior leads to superficial relationships with lots of acquaintances but few deep relationships, because people view them as shallow, flighty, and egocentric.

4. Narcissistic
Which is characterized by individuals who have grandiose self image which they think they are more attractive, more intelligent and more talented than they are. Since they believe they are so special, they expect to be treated as such obsessively demanding the best of everything. They also think their ideas are inherintly the best and the other people should understand & support them.
BUT BEHIND THIS MASK of ultra confidence, lots of fragile self esteem that is vulnerable to slightest criticism with them lashing out when they feel slighted.

CLUSTER C(Classified as "worried personality")
Includes 3 personality disorders

1. AVOIDANT
These individuals are shy, timid, and socially inhibited with extremely low self esteem and see themselves as incapable, inadequate and undesirable.

These people WANTS close relationships with others but rarely takes social risks and avoid social situations which makes them hard to meet new people. They are also, hypersensitive to rejection and negative feedback, becoming even more withdrawn when that happens.

2. OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE (OCPD)
Which where individuals are obssesed with orderliness perfectionism and having complete control as well as (suprisingly) inefficient because they spend so much extra time planning & worrying task rather than simply doing them.

They also tend to be rigid when it comes to beliefs and moral issues which leads them to be perceived as STUBBORN.

3. DEPENDENT
These people have intense fear of seperation and rejection so they tend to overly depend or "cling" to relationships they do have. They lack of self confidence and believe that they cannot take care of themselves.

It nearly impossible for them to make even simple decisions for themselves so they are desperate to hold on to someone who completely takes care of them. Sadly, these individuals often get trapped in abusive realtionship.