Avoidant personality disorder

thoughts. All emotions and state of mind vanish as water does once the sun comes out. Everything is a puzzle that cannot be pieced together. With one simple diagnostic, the voices are labeled schizophrenia and the changes of mood is bipolar disorder. The disorders, the names, the treatment, the “solutions”, seem to never. It is not a name with a needle welcoming the voices in, but a man with an ear and pen ready to silence or quiet them to be more bearable. The voices and mood swings are the…

unanticipated murder, as opposed to a planned one, like most psychopathic serial killers (Pemment). After looking at another cluster B disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, or NPD, the article stated that there wasn’t a direct link between NPD and serial killing. The last disorder mentioned in the article in reference to serial killing is schizophrenia, a disorder in which people suffering from it can become violent when experiencing psychotic symptoms such as auditory and visual…

Almost 31 million Americans are affected by a serious personality disorder, the most common being Antisocial Personality Disorder. With social disorders one's characteristics are inflexible which may lead to distress in social, occupational, or other areas of one's life. Antisocial personality disorder affects around 4% of adults and those with the disorder have no respect for others, feel no remorse, become impulsive, belligerent, irresponsible, aggressive, and violent. Among the 15% of…

memoirs Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen and The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston reflect on experiences in the authors’ lives that have impacted their transition into womanhood. Kaysen has borderline personality disorder and recounts her struggle with mental illness during the time she spends at a mental institution when she was 18 years old. Kingston is Chinese-American and she reflects on her battles with her cultural identity in her coming-of-age…

from numerous personality disorders. With Joan Crawford’s obsessive compulsive disorder there would never be a single spot on her marble floor. Following the obsessive compulsive disorder, is Joan and her borderline personality disorder, where she can transform from a sweet little bunny to a ravage deadly T-Rex. As well as her narcissistic personality disorder, Joan believes that she is the most important person in the world. Lastly, she suffers from histrionic personality disorder leading her…

A serial killer by dictionary definition is “ someone who murders more than three victims one at a time in a relatively short interval,” many wonder what turns a person into a ruthless monster. (Collins English Dictionary) Numerous studies have been done on the brains and actions of serial killers, but there seems to be no single thing that causes a person to become a cold blooded murderer. Scientist do believe that there are certain characteristics that make a serial killer, and it is also…

Borderline personality disorder is a dreadful mental illness that affects every aspect of a victim’s life. Holden Caulfield, the main character in The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger, seems to be suffering from BPD. Holden is a sixteen year old boy who was recently kicked out of his school, Pencey Prep, and he decides to travel to New York City and live there by himself for a few days. During his time in New York, he shows undeniable signs of the mental disorder, Borderline Personality…

the UK are still people suffering from a mentally disorder (BBC 2016). In the end, in the US, people with a mental disorder are 16 times more likely to get killed by the police than a person without a mental disorder. The lack of recording the shootings, especially the ones involving mental health, negatively influence the insufficient training of not only the police in the US (Fuller et al.…

for a person with a mental illness, it defines who they are as a person. They are not deemed normal or okay to society. Society allows the illness to define who they are instead of them being a great person who happens to have a mental illness or disorder. Whether the person is born with the illness or develops it, it is no different from any other disease. When reading this paper, keep in mind that we cannot judge these people with mental illnesses, but rather further understand who they are or…

Dr. Spencer Reid is brilliant and genuinely entertaining who hints at having Schnipornia and autism, passed on from generation through generation. Throughout the series, we get glimpses/flashbacks to Reid’s childhood where it shows the hard moments in his life. For Spencer, I would say the worst time when death does the most damage to him both mentally and individually as a person happens when his mother is killed by her long time stocker. This event in his life is very similar to the events of…