Psychologists define personality referring to qualities within a person, characteristics of a person’s behaviour or both. According to Allport (1937), “Personality is the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his unique adjustments to his environment. Personality is actually the pattern of thoughts, feelings and behaviour that makes us who we are. In various situations every individual thinks, feels and reacts in a different and unique manner. But mostly we do tend to behave in fairly predictable ways. Depending on the way we behave, we can be described as lively, shy, helpful, selfish, and so on. Every individual has a set of these patterns, and this set makes up our personality. Usually,
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•This model manifested and inflexible across a huge range of social and personal situations and causes clinically remarkable distress in occupational, social or other such significant areas.•An evaluation of a person’s functioning in the long term, and the particular features of his personality must be true observationally by early adulthood.•The endurable pattern is explained as a consequence of some other mental disorder.Causes of a Personality Disorder •Family circumstances: Various family circumstances can make you vulnerable to personality disorder. This might be because to reasons like having a difficult childhood, changes in your family resulting in different parent figures with various expectations and demands. The people who have experienced some kind of physical, emotional or sexual abuse make them even more …show more content…
The families in which the child is not given warmth or intimacy by his parents, the chances of the child having a personality disorder are high.•Trauma: If a person had been through repeated childhood traumas, like in major accidents, it may lead to personality disorder. The researchers have found that early and severe trauma can cause personality disorder. Not everyone who has gone though traumas develop a personality disorder. People who are provided proper support, care, affection and help can make it better.•Genetics and Inheritance: Some traits or elements of our personality are inherited from our parents. Researchers believe that inheritance may play a big role in the development of various personality disorders which can be seen in a person in his childhood itself.Different types of Personality Disorders According to the DSM-V, diagnosis of personality disorders identifies 10 different types of personality disorders. These disorders can be grouped into 3 categories-Suspicious- paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal, antisocial.Emotional and impulsive- borderline, histrionic, narcissist.Anxious- avoidant, dependent, obsessive
•This model manifested and inflexible across a huge range of social and personal situations and causes clinically remarkable distress in occupational, social or other such significant areas.•An evaluation of a person’s functioning in the long term, and the particular features of his personality must be true observationally by early adulthood.•The endurable pattern is explained as a consequence of some other mental disorder.Causes of a Personality Disorder •Family circumstances: Various family circumstances can make you vulnerable to personality disorder. This might be because to reasons like having a difficult childhood, changes in your family resulting in different parent figures with various expectations and demands. The people who have experienced some kind of physical, emotional or sexual abuse make them even more …show more content…
The families in which the child is not given warmth or intimacy by his parents, the chances of the child having a personality disorder are high.•Trauma: If a person had been through repeated childhood traumas, like in major accidents, it may lead to personality disorder. The researchers have found that early and severe trauma can cause personality disorder. Not everyone who has gone though traumas develop a personality disorder. People who are provided proper support, care, affection and help can make it better.•Genetics and Inheritance: Some traits or elements of our personality are inherited from our parents. Researchers believe that inheritance may play a big role in the development of various personality disorders which can be seen in a person in his childhood itself.Different types of Personality Disorders According to the DSM-V, diagnosis of personality disorders identifies 10 different types of personality disorders. These disorders can be grouped into 3 categories-Suspicious- paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal, antisocial.Emotional and impulsive- borderline, histrionic, narcissist.Anxious- avoidant, dependent, obsessive